In 1860, South Carolina declared their causes of secession. South Carolina was the first state to secede, and their main reason was that their powers were restrained by the federal government. They felt they were not sovereign, and therefore needed to secede.

In the 1860's, the nation continued to struggle to become united. Congress introduced the new banking and currency systems. Senator John Sherman commended this because he was a strong believer in national unity. He believed that everything should be nationalized because putting state authority above national authority would be "the main instrument by w

With all of these events taken into consideration, the Emancipation Proclomation, the new amendments, Reconstructin, and so on and so forth, we may conclude that each had a sufficient effect on bringing about revolutionary economical, social, and political changes on the lives of all Americans of this era, black and white, north and south, and led to the improvement of life and increase of power to this great nation of these United States.

In 1866, the Fourteenth Amendment was passed, which gave the blacks their freedom. Senator Lot Morrill addresses this amendment as a revolution, because that one amendment alone revolutionized the system based on black servitude. That form of civilization which we once knew is now "gone forever."

The blacks at this time were persistently struggling for their civil rights. They declared that they should have the privilege of voting because they foug

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