Online lesson 6

A. Identify the southern US states during the Civil War.
Taxas, Florida, Tennessee, LA, ARK, MISS, ALA, Georgia, N.Carolina, S.Carolina and Virginia.
B. Who was the US president who proclaimed war against the South?
Abraham Lincoln was the US president who proclaimed war against the South.
C. Why was the Civil War fought?
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=142717
http://oep.oxfordjournals.org/content/50/4/563.short
The Civil War was fought mainly because of steady accumulation of protracted conflicts since the 1950s and 1960s and conditions that favor insurgency. These include poverty—which marks financially and bureaucratically weak states and also favors rebel recruitment—political instability, rough terrain, and large populations.
D. When was this war fought?
The war was fought 1861 - 1865
E. What was the outcome of this war?
http://www.uky.edu/~clthyn2/PS439G/readings/derouen_sobek_2004.pdf
Many people were sacrificed with Union having the victory.

F. How does the Civil War relate to TKAM?
Both are similar in the factor of racial tension. So, the American Civil War was based a lot upon the disagreement over slavery. In "To Kill a Mockingbird" the case about Tom Robinson also has to do with the racial tensions that were going on in this time period

Reflections

From this activity, I had learnt more about the Civil War. I learnt the reason for such a war to occur, mainly because of the prejudice between countries. Similarly to that of Missippi Burning, in which the blacks had tolerated enough of the mistreatment towards them. Civil war had occurred for the same reason, for the people turned against the unfair treatment towards them. Then, while the civil war was led by the president, in the movie, the whites were represented by the government body and being thought as the stronger party. Lastly, the civil war was won by the unions and the civil war was won by the union. Hence, as a result, both parts were about poverty, races which turned rebellious against the political side.