Honors blog

A revolution is when a government or political system is overthrown by the people being governed. For us to figure out if the Civil was is actually like the a Second American Revolution we have to look at what happened in the Civil war and see if it is like a Revolution. There were several rebellions throughout the Civil war, and throughout the Civil war there was a new government that was set up with new political parties, things where getting established at this time, things where changing in the world. Also the North and the South where fighting or their independence.

The North and the South had some issues with each other because at this time there was slavery and they both had the totally opposite view on the issue at hand. The North did not want slavery they thought that it was not good to have slavery because the slaves were people themselves. The South on the other hand thought that slavery was a good thing they did not want to get rid of it, slavery was beneficial to them because the slave did a lot of things for them and they didn't have to pay the slaves anything at all. The north and the south felt strongly on where they stood on the issue of slavery and they were not afraid to use unnecessary force to get what they wanted. A republican senator Charles Sumner gave a speech condemning slavery, and he insulted South Carolina and one of its senator, the Congressman of South Carolina Preston S. Brooks did not like that very much and he beat Sumner over the head with a can with a lot of anger even after it broke he kept on hitting him with it. This quote is from the Nation Of Nations book " The can had shattered into three pieces from the violence of the attack, but Brooks, swept up in the emotion of the moment, furiously continued hitting Sumner until the senator collapsed unconscious, drenched in blood." there is where the violence started because a senator had insulted someones state and they fought back with violence. The southerners were trying to keep the slavery through their big powers, for example the Dred Scott case he was not granted his freedom because there were five southern justices int he supreme court, " Two Northern justices joined all five southern members in ruling 7 to 2 that Scott remained a slave..." This quote form the Nation of Nations, people were standing up for what they wanted in big places like the Supreme Court. It was like the southerners were separating themselves and they wanted to have their own rules. People were either pleased or angry at the Dred Scott decision. People where taking a stand through the judicial power.

When Abraham Lincoln was elected president, the main issue to why the southerners receded and kind of made their own government they separated themselves and became the confederates. When Lincoln became president the southerners got scared and they feel that what they were fighting for would soon come to an end because the president had an opposing idea that what they did. This quote shows it " Lincoln's election struck many southerners as a blow of terrible finality, they felt that them receding was the only way to protect their liberty. They succeeded from he union and then they made their own government with their own president,this quote from the Nation of Nations shows it " The rest of the deep south followed, on February 7, 1861, the states stretching from South Carolina to Texas organized the Confederate States of America and elected Jefferson Davis president." It started with a couple of states and then moved to the others like a domino effect they all started to separate themselves, that is how they all became the Confederate States. A lot of states started to succeed and i was all so unexpected Lincoln felt that something had to be done,this quote from the nation of Nations shows this " Matters had passed beyond compromise.”

The North was given the order to put down the rebellion in the southern states
people though that this war wouldn't be very long and the southern rebellion would be stopped. This war was actually very bad with the deaths of many. This war was fought by so many troops as much as 100,000, and they were supplied through the railroads, " So many combatants could be equipped only through the use of factory-produced weaponry, they could be moved and supplied only with the help of the railroads..." this is a quote from Nation of Nations. These people were fighting for what they believed was the right thing for their country whether it be slaves or anti-slaves. You can say that the Civil war was not a typical war it was different than the ones that had come before it. Wars were usually a fight for a piece of land, but this time it was different they were fighting for liberty, and some were fight in for the rights they thought people should have including the slaves.

The Civil War was referred to as the Second American Revolution because there was a difference in the war people were fighting for what they though was right, there was a change going through this people made their own Government and they had like their own Confederate States. The people being governed rebelled against the government in place and did their own thing. It was a revolution but in the Civil War people fighting for what they thought was right.