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The visual depictions that were created during the war provide an opportunity to explore the many different ways in which African Americans—free and enslaved, in Union and Confederate states— advanced the war effort. However, these images also encourage us to examine the many ways in which artists, photographers, and publishers chose to ...
Sectionalism, an exaggerated devotion to the interests of a region over those of a country as a whole. Throughout American history, tension has existed between several regions, but the competing views of slavery held by Northerners and Southerners was the country’s preeminent sectional split.
The Civil War Collection at Michigan State University. A huge online collection of scanned letters, newspaper articles, images, photographs, diaries, and much more, filled with the stories of Michigan soldiers.
This document contains a sectionalism chart to be filled in with the political, economic, geographic, and social aspects of the North, South, and West regions of the United States during the 1800s. It also contains questions about how approaches to slavery shifted from the Missouri Compromise to the Compromise of 1850, and the impacts of the ...
The clashing interests of the South and New England, the emergence of the West, the ultimate sectional confrontation that resulted in Civil War, the antagonisms that flowed from the resort to arms, and the resilient political regionalism of the twentieth century have long been obvious.
1. The most important cause of the Civil War (to most historians) was slavery – the opposite of freedom. 2. White southerners thought that they were fighting for their freedom. They saw states’ rights as the freedom to own slaves as property, the freedom to live their own way of life with no interference, and the freedom of
The story of the Civil War is often told as a triumph of freedom over slavery, using little more than a timeline of battles and a thin pile of legislation as plot points. Among those acts and skirmishes, addresses and battles, the Emancipation Proclamation is key: with a stroke of Abraham Lincoln’s pen, the story goes, slaves were freed and ...
