War Turning Point

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The American Civil War was a war fought from 1861 to 1865 to gain back the independence of the Confederacy back to the Union. There were a total of 34 states as of January 1861 and seven of those Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America, known as the "Confederacy" or the "South". They grew to include eleven states, and although they claimed thirteen states and additional western territories. The states that remained loyal and did not separate from the U.S were known as the "Union" or the "North". The war had its origin in a number of issues such as slavery and the extension of slavery into the west. The Civil War was the turning point of America because it ended…show more content…
Cotton was the cash crop of the South and with the invention of the cotton gin, cotton became more profitable in the South because this machine separated seeds from cotton easily. Cotton was in so much demand, the increase for slaves were needed. The Northern economy was more industrial than agricultural. Where the South concentrated on producing more raw cotton, the North was more interested in turning cotton into clothing. The economic statuses of the North and South were completely different as the North would have a melting pot of cultures working together in society and the South still was trying to maintain its outdated social order (Kelley…show more content…
As a result of Johnson’s willingness to agree, many southern states in successfully enacted a series of laws known as the “black codes,” which were designed to restrict freed slave’s activity and ensure that they were availability as a labor force (Du Bois 62). When the North found out what was happening, they were quickly enraged and retaliated by not letting Southern congressmen and senators sit in congressional meetings. In 1866, Congress passed the Freedmen’s Bureau and Civil Rights Bills and sent them to Johnson for approval. The bill would define all people born in the United States as national citizens who were to enjoy equality. After Johnson vetoed the bill, his image in Congress was tarnished but not before the Civil Rights Act became the first major bill to become law over presidential veto (Jones
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