Dbq Revolution
Many controversial issues in the mid 1800’s, including slavery, preservation of the Union, and the rights of states, caused the division of the United States and the Civil War. One major event that began this division was the southern assault on Fort Sumter. Since the defeat of the Democrats in the 1860 election, by Abraham Lincoln, to the final withdrawal of northern troops from the South, the United States had gone through a great revolution that consisted of both constitutional and social developments. One event that consisted of the constitutional developments of the secession of many southern states from the Union and the Emancipation Proclamation was the Civil War. The revolution of Reconstruction followed the war and consisted of the constitutional developments of three civil rights amendments to the Constitution and the social formation of the Freedmen’s Bureau. The final revolution of this time period was that of the conservatives or Redeemers and gave place to lawful developments such as the Force Acts and the Ku Klux Klan Act and social developments like the formation of white terrorist groups and segregation of blacks from whites.
Before the Civil War began, the United States had split into four divergent regions: the Northeast, which had a growing industrial and commercial economy and an escalating population; the Northwest, a briskly expanding region of free farmers which, under the Northwest Ordinance, forbade slavery; the Upper South with a plantation system and economic prosperity; and the Southwest, a budding region with an intensifying cotton economy. Based on a wage labor system in the North and slavery in the South, two different views of society emerged in the United States in the 1800’s. Though previous compromises to keep a balanced number of slave and free states, such as the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850, settled tensions between the North and the South in the past, a crisis now was inevitable. After the...
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