Slavery was more than a political problem that divided the north from the south. It was also a moral problem that divided the regions. By the early 1800s, strong moral arguments were created for both sides. The Pro-Slavery Rationale was created by John C.
restriction of interest to a narrow sphere; undue concern with local interests or petty distinctions at the expense of general well-being.
withdraw formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.
April 12, 1861 – April 9, 1865 The war began when the Confederates bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861. The war ended in Spring, 1865. Robert E. Lee surrendered the last major Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865.
John Bell Hood was a U.S. military officer who served as a Confederate general during the Civil War (1861-65).
First Battle of Sabine Pass (September 24-25, 1862) ...First Battle of Galveston (October 4, 1862) ..Second Battle of Galveston (January 1, 1863) ...Second Battle of Sabine Pass (September 8, 1863) ...Last Battle of the Civil War (Palmito Ranch/Palmito Hill May 12-13, 1865)
Robert E. Lee's Surrender summary: General Robert E. Lee's surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, is often called the end of the American Civil War.
Reconstruction (1865-1877), the turbulent era following the Civil War, was the effort to reintegrate Southern states from the Confederacy and 4 million newly-freed slaves into the United States. Under the administration of President Andrew Johnson in 1865 and 1866, new southern state legislatures passed restrictive “black codes” to control the labor and behavior of former slaves and other African Americans. Outrage in the North over these codes eroded support for the approach known as Presidential Reconstruction and led to the triumph of the more radical wing of the Republican Party. During Radical Reconstruction, which began with the passage of the Reconstruction Act of 1867, newly enfranchised blacks gained a voice in government for the first time in American history, winning election to southern state legislatures and even to the U.S. Congress. In less than a decade, however, reactionary forces–including the Ku Klux Klan–would reverse the changes wrought by Radical Reconstruction in a violent backlash that restored white supremacy in the South.
