Civil Rights Case Study Name: Anika Marsh
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Case study: Slavery and the Civil War
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-‐ In the 1860s slavery was legal -‐ In the South everybody wanted slavery to go on, because they think that owning someone is like making them do all the work and you don't have to -‐slavery allowed plantations(big farms) to exist. Crops like tobacco and cotton needs lots of labour -‐ In the North, people hated slavery and wanted it to be banned because they think it's wrong to see a slavered person do all the work but master doesn't, they think it's unfair and not equal the the person whos being owned -‐ The Slave states joined a different Union called, "The Confederacy" -‐ Abraham seccesfully broke the Confederacy by bringing the Union army to attack against the Confederate army -‐ The Civil War started when Fort Sumter was attacked on April 12, 1861 4:30 AM -‐ More states seceded from the Union and joined the Confedracy -‐ America had two Union and one became bigger, but the other Union needed the Confederacy to break -‐ The Civil War was the first American War in the 1800s -‐ In the Civil War, slavery was still in the country until 5 years after the war began, Abraham gave a speech called,"Emancipation Proclamation," which made end to slavery and made it illegal -‐ the Union army made destruction to all the Confederate military -‐ the Confederacy split into two in Mississippi River -‐ the Union was back together and there was only one Union because the Confederacy couldn't hold as a Union since the Confederacy split up -‐ The next day after Civil War started, Abraham Lincoln brought up a speech called,"Emancipation Proclamation," to all the southerners who wanted slavery to go on, even the Northerners wanted to hear it -‐ Abraham made America one Union stronger and a better place -‐ Abraham ended the Confederacy -‐ Abraham Lincoln hated to see another Union form, so he had to change it by bringing an army to the Confederate military and destroy it -‐I would call Abraham Lincoln a leader, because he led the amy to split the Confederacy, destroy the Confederate river navy, and making destruction of the infrastructure of the Confederacy along the way -‐Civil War ended in 1865 -‐Abraham Lincoln gave a speech,"Emancipation Proclamation." The speech changed the southerners to make slavery illegal and for the whole country -‐ Years after the destruction of the Confederacy, the seceded states
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