Epilogue: The Shoals of Victory

Epilogue: The Shoals of Victory

How blacks would receive their freedom and what their boundaries would be continued to be an issue, but mostly everyone agreed that blacks should have rights, even southerners. Many southerners began to believe that slavery was ruining their lifestyle. Secession and slavery were forever gone. 

People started referring to the United States as a singular country. The nation became more centralized, taxed the people directly, and created an internal revenue bureau to collect the taxes. A shift in power from the South to the North occurred, as it took more than a century before a resident in an ex-Confederate state became president.

Union victory made sure that the South was completely destroyed and the Republican and the northern way of life would dominate the country.

Key Terms: 

None, since this is just a summary of what happened after the Civil War ended.

Questions: 

I honestly have no more questions... This gigantic book covered pretty much every thing I'll ever need to know...ever.

Citations: 

• McPherson, James M. "Epilogue: The Shoals of Victory." In Battle Cry of Freedom, 853-862. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
• Accessed March 11, 2015. http://perfunction.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d896453ef010535d51455970b-500wi.