Secession

the 1850’s, Congress jacked the import taxes from 15% to 37%. The South threatened secession, Which outraged the North. The North was broadly opposed to slavery and this cultural difference shaped the rhetoric of war. Economic and cultural fear propelled the country into war, but slavery was not even the gist of it all. While the Republican Party was anti-slavery, it was…

Chechnya has been striving for its dependence for hundreds of years, and has been repeatedly denied it by the former Soviet Union, and the current Russia. The Chechens fiercely opposed the Russian conquest of Transcaucasia during the nineteenth century (Shah). Following the Russian Revolution in 1917, Chechnya’s first attempt at declaring its independence was met with Russian occupation (Shah). Upon the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Chechen interest in independence was renewed,…

condition. The north believed the South’s secession as a deplorable act, which gave them the drive to fight for the Union. Meanwhile the South’s agenda was to instill slavery as whites were the superior race and if following this agenda meant breaking away from the Union the South would do as such. In the New York Times article, “Alexander H. Stephens on Peace,”…

What caused the Civil War? The civil war was a result caused by slavery, the election of Abraham Lincoln and the Southern Secession. The future of slavery depended on the union. African-American slaves helped build the economic foundations of the new nation. The south valued slaves for large plantations and other task. Slaves were mostly important because it meant that large farms could plant large amounts of crop and own workers without having to pay them. A big cash crop in the south was…

Prior to 1860, secession had not been viewed by many as a feasible option for America’s future; however, the precedent set in 1820 by the Missouri Compromise, that the country should engage in an endless political balancing act to perpetuate peace, became difficult to maintain long-term. Compelling sectional fears and differences, intensified by the increased popularity of the abolition movement in the 1850s, expedited the arrival of a rupture that, in retrospect, seemed almost inevitable.…

did from the wars. They were able to use this power and wealth to shift society in their favor, and benefitted from the suffering of the plebeians. In 494 B.C. the plebeians had finally reached their breaking point and committed to their first secession from the patricians. This was their best way to stand up to the patricians since they had no power to make changes through the government. The plebeians marched as one to a hill that they dubbed the “Sacred Mount”, and told the patricians that…

SECTION 1 What is secession? Who is Henry Clay? What is the Compromise of 1850? What is popular sovereignty? What is the Underground Railroad? Who was Harriet Tubman? Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe? Who was Franklin Pierce? What happened in the election of 1856? What happened on March 6, 1857? Who was Stephen Douglas? Who is Abraham Lincoln? What is the meaning of Confederacy? Who was Jefferson Davis? SECTION 2 What is Fort Sumter?…

“History is written by the victors.” This commonly referenced proverb is self-evident, but this makes the story of the “losers” all the more interesting. The Southern attempt at secession, something that represents an American failure and a triumph, polarized an entire country. While the inspiring words of the Abraham Lincoln are commonly referenced, Jefferson Davis, the first and only President of the Confederate States of America, often has his speeches and influence swept aside. Davis’s…

In Thomas J. DiLorenzo’s book The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War, the author expresses his opinion on the Lincoln administration, as well as validating the book by breaking up the main focuses of each chapter and briefly explaining his viewpoint in the introduction. DiLorenzo attempts to show a different side of Lincoln that is not discussed or mention in most history books. It is almost as if DiLorenzo takes a side no other professor or…

Tensions greatly increased in the 1850s, when compromise was no longer enough to maintain peace. Northern Senator Daniel Webster acknowledged that talks of secession had already begun by 1850, when Northerners refused to return escaped slaves to their owners. When talking of peaceful secession, Webster remarked, “your eyes and mine are never destined to see that miracle” and that it was a “moral impossibility.” True hatred brewed throughout the decade, with a Georgian newspaper…