American Civil War

Examples of American Civil War in the following topics:

• African Americans in Southern Politics

  • After the Civil War, many African Americans and former slaves became Republicans and officeholders.
  • After the Civil War, Republicans took control of all Southern state governorships and state legislatures except Virginia.
  • About 137 black officeholders had lived outside the South before the Civil War.
  • Others were free blacks before the war, who had achieved education and positions of leadership elsewhere.
  • During his term in Congress, Rainey supported legislation to protect the civil rights of Southern blacks, working for two years to gain passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1875.

• The War in the South

  • The American Indian tribes south of the Appalachians played an important role in the War of 1812, and American Indian resistance to European-American expansion intensified into the Creek War.
  • The Creek War (1813–1814), also known as the "Red Stick War," began as a civil war within the Creek (Muscogee) nation.
  • Before the Creek Civil War, in February of 1813, Tecumseh, leader of the Shawnees, came to the Southeast to encourage the Creek to join his movement to throw the European-Americans out of American Indian territories.
  • This decision ignited civil war in the Creek Nation.
  • Discuss the intersection of Native American civil wars and the War of 1812

• The Breakdown of Sectional Balance

  • In 1836, a group of American-born Texans led a revolution against Santa Ana's Mexican government and declared Texas an "independent republic," while simultaneously applying to the United States for annexation.Mexico, torn apart by civil war, refused to recognize Texan independence and threatened war with the United States if annexation occurred.
  • With the conflict over the Texan border escalating, Polk sent Zachary Taylor and American troops into Texas to defend the Rio Grande boundary, provoking the outbreak of war.The American public largely supported the war and was eager for news of conquest and war stories disseminated from newspapers and magazines.The war also held romantic appeal for Americans who believed that it was the destiny of the United States to possess the North American continent and to expand "progressive democracy" to new territories acquired from backward nations.
  • The war also inflamed the slavery issue and sectional splits in the United States.The new territories in the west (particularly California) meant that the westward expansion of slavery became an increasingly central and heated theme in national debates preceding the American Civil War.Furthermore, in extending the nation farther toward the Pacific Ocean, the Mexican–American War contributed to the massive migrations of Americans to the West, which culminated in transcontinental railroads and the Indian wars later in the same century.
  • Map of the Mexican-American War, with routes of both Taylor and Scott's campaigns.
  • Examine the role that the Mexican American War played in increasing sectional tension

• The Indian Response

  • The Creek War (1813–1814), also known as the Red Stick War and the Creek Civil War, began as a civil war within the Creek (Muscogee) Nation.
  • Although the Creek War began as a civil war, U.S. forces became involved when they attacked a Creek party in present-day Alabama, at the Battle of Burnt Corn.
  • Before the Creek Civil War, in February, 1813, Tecumseh, leader of the Shawnees, came to the Southeast to encourage the Creek to join his movement to throw the whites out of Native American territories.
  • This decision ignited civil war in the Creek Nation.
  • Analyze the relationship between the Creek Civil War and the War of 1812

• Civil Rights of Asian Americans

  • Civil Rights controversies surrounding Asian Americans include early immigration restrictions and xenophobia during the Second World War.
  • Internment camps during World War II were used to hold Japanese American residents and citizens, who were suspected of anti-American plotting without the benefit of legal proceedings.
  • Immigration policy has played a central role in legal Civil Rights issues affecting Asian Americans.
  • In what is now considered to be a major civil rights violation, thousands of Japanese Americans were held in internment camps during World War II.
  • In 1965, at the tail end of the Civil Rights era, President Lyndon B.

• Madison's American Indian Policy

  • James Madison's presidency saw the continuation of the American Indian Wars as the United States expanded into and invaded indigenous territory.
  • In his first Inaugural Address upon assuming office on March 4, 1809, James Madison stated that the federal government's duty was to convert the American Indians by the, "participation of the improvements of which the human mind and manners are susceptible in a civilized state."
  • The Creek War, also known as the "Red Stick War" and the "Creek Civil War," was a regional war among opposing Creek factions, European empires, and the United States, taking place largely in Alabama and along the Gulf Coast.
  • The Seminole Wars, also known as the "Florida Wars," were three conflicts in Florida between the Seminole—the collective name given to the amalgamation of various groups of Native Americans and African Americans who settled in Florida in the early eighteenth century—and the U.S.
  • Madison believed that learning European-style agriculture would help force the Creek to adopt the values of British-American civilization.

• The Guatemalan Civil War

• The Syrian Civil War

• The Russian Civil War

• The Chinese Civil War