Hundreds of thousands of African Americans in the South faced new difficulties: finding a way to forge an economically independent life in the face of hostile whites, little or no education, and …

Jul 31, 2023 · The federal government restricted constitutional liberties during the Civil War (1861–1865), including freedom of speech and freedom of the press.

May 20, 2020 · One hundred-fifty years ago, competing visions for the country and conflicting definitions of freedom led to a war that threatened the very existence of the United States.

Americans battled over preserving their Union and ending slavery. Both sides envisioned easy victories after eleven Southern states seceded and war broke out in 1861. But the bitter, …

The Civil War brought about "a new birth of freedom," as Lincoln said. The United States fought World War II for the Four Freedoms, according to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Sep 12, 2017 · Practically from the war’s commencement, enslaved people had taken it upon themselves to seize their freedom. The U.S. Army and Congress had taken incremental steps …

Apr 23, 2015 · With the end of the Civil War came the end of slavery in the United States. Legally and constitutionally, the war resolved the single most important moral question that afflicted …

Explore how constitutional clashes over slavery set the stage for the Civil War and how its outcome transformed the Constitution to more fully embrace the Declaration of …

May 10, 2022 · From the first days of the Civil War, enslaved people had acted to secure their own liberty. The Emancipation Proclamation confirmed their insistence that the war for the …

dom to the center stage of American politics, and inaugurated a complex battle--involving Northern Republicans, the white South, and four million former slaves-over what rights free …