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The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, ... Scholars have debated what the effects of the war were on political and economic power in the South. [246]
The Economic Impact of the American Civil War (1962) online; Barreyre, Nicolas. Gold and Freedom: The Political Economy of Reconstruction (University of Virginia Press, 2015). Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Clark, Jr., John E. Railroads in the Civil War: The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat (2004) Cochran, Thomas C.
The British Foreign Service and the American Civil War (2015). Blackett, R. J. M. Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War (2001) online. Campbell, Duncan Andrew. English Public Opinion and the American Civil War (2003). Crook, D. P. The North, The South, and the Powers, 1861–1865 (1974), focus on Britain and Canada.
These events are roughly divided into two periods: the first encompasses the gradual build-up over many decades of the numerous social, economic, and political issues that ultimately contributed to the war's outbreak, and the second encompasses the five-month span following the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States in ...
Historiography examines how the past has been viewed or interpreted.Historiographic issues about the American Civil War include the name of the war, the origins or causes of the war (slavery or states' rights), and President Abraham Lincoln's views and goals regarding slavery.
The Reconstruction era was a period in United States history and Southern United States history that followed the American Civil War and was dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges of the abolition of slavery and the reintegration of the eleven former Confederate States of America into the United States.
As the Florida Governor likely knows, “waving the bloody shirt” is a pejorative expression coined during post-Civil War political campaigns to criticize or shame candidates who invoked the ...
The American Civil War (1861–1865) was partly triggered by the tariff question. Southern agricultural states opposed any form of protection, while northern industrial states wanted to maintain protection. The fledgling Republican Party led by Abraham Lincoln, who called himself a "Henry Clay tariff Whig", strongly opposed free trade. Early in ...