Civil+war+U.G.s.f.2.m.

=__**Civil War and Slavery**__=
 * [[image:Colonial_--)MILK.gif height="80" link="Colonial Experience ML"]] || [[image:Destiny-Star-player-ml-#19.gif height="80" link="Manifest Destiny U.G."]] || [[image:Civil-war-slayer-fest-2000-.gif height="80" link="Civil war U.G.s.f.2.m."]] ||
 * During 1860 the U.S. was looking for leaders, also at this time slavery was a major problem for all. Slavery was so huge because two groups battled and was trying to decided which side was right. They were fighting for slavery. Is slavery right or wrong? These two sides were the North (Union) and South (Confederates). The North wanted to free the slaves and the South wanted to keep them. Elections were held in 1860, the Democratic Party split into the Northern and Southern Democrats. For the Republicans Abe Lincoln was nominated and believed that slavery was morally wrond and wanted to prevent its spread throughout the new nations. As this arguement continued a war was waiting to happen, between the Confederacy and the Union the North and South.**
 * This war that broke out was known as the Civil War, the fight for and against Slavery. This led to the blockades against the Confederacy, the Battle of Antietam, the Emancipation Proclamation, Sherman's March to the Sea, and finally the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. During the war other people, other than just men had to work. Women and African Americans participated by getting jobs and continuing the work back home not just in the battle field. Some African American men took the chance and fought for their own freedom.**
 * As the Civil War came to its end the Union pulled through victorous. They had control of what needed to happen so that Slavery would be solved and that things similar to Slavery would be prevented. At the end of the horrific war they started to Reconstruct their ways of life and how to live it. Laws were starting to be passed that gave people the rights to stand up for what they believe in and what they wanted to do. A sense of freedom is what they gave them. Things such as the Fifteenth Amendment and many more. Even though after the war the some Confederats still tried to make their stands in all the wrong ways. Forming the Ku Klux Klan that would kill many African Americans at night. Even through that we stopped most of the wrong doings and in the end freed them from slavery. Making this nation a better one.**