I believe that the Civil War began with the debate over the future of slavery. That very issue led to secession, and secession caused a war where the Northern states fought for the ground of the Union, and the South for their independence as a new confederation of states under its own constitution. It seems to me that any disagreement leads to some form of resentment. We tend to not like what we don’t understand, and it was hard for the North to understand why the Southern states were itching for freedom from them. It seems from a broader point of view that the North has gone through so much just for the Southern states of America to exist.
Territorial Issues Before the onset of the Great American Civil War, a huge debate was raging among the citizens, and politicians of the Untied States. Slavery was the main issue that separated the Northern and Southern states, but another, more complicated issue was at hand. As settlers began to talk about the “Manifest Destiny,” and expand westward, new territories were being given statehood. The formation of these new states rose to a new question: should these new states welcome slavery within their boundaries? Three distinct positions were taken on this issue.
The American Civil War began April 12, 1861 and ended May 9, 1865. This war is sometimes called “The War Between the States” because it was fought between the North, also known as the Union states, and the South, also known as the Confederate states. The Civil War was triggered by the election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860, because Lincoln wanted to put an end to slavery and keep the Union together. As the United States continued to grow and to have more states join the Union, problems began when the North and South fought over whether the new states would come in as slave states or not. The territorial expansion of the United States played a great role in the Civil war because it indirectly affected slavery.
In the second part of the book (47), Freehling explicate the role of the white southerners who were against the Confederation and their role in the Secession Crisis. At that time, Southerners were divided; the Middle South and the Border peoples weren’t so predisposed to Secede. He also explains the event of Fort Sumter in South Carolina (symbolic place of the Independence) which set off the Civil War in April 1861. In the third part of his analyze (83), the author make a point on the role of the Black southerners who opposed the Confederacy and sides White
How the Civil War Started The Civil War started on April 12, 1861 with the attack on Fort Sumter and lasted until April 9, 1865 when Lee’s army finally surrendered at the courthouse in Appomattox, Virginia. This war revolved into one of the bloodiest in American History; the people of the nation were so divided that, in some families, brother fought against brother. During the war, America was divided into two nations: the North that was labeled “the Union” and the South that was titled “the Confederacy”. The causes of this war are numerous and debatable. However, the most debated, relevant, and obvious causes include: Conflicts of slavery, the election of President Abraham Lincoln, and the secession of the southern states.
It was assumed that Kansas would become a slave state because of its high potential for agriculture and its geographic location next to the slave state of Missouri. Anti-slavery efforts sought to recruit people to settle there in order to gain a majority and secure Kansas as a free state. These tensions escalated to violence between the two groups which came to be called “Bleeding Kansas”. Kansas helped reveal the issue of the expansion of slavery to people across the country and became a polarizing topic. Many American citizens in the North and the South were unhappy with the way that the government had handled the issue of Kansas.
It carried on all the affairs of a separate government and making a major war until defeated in 1865. Their way of life that was based on slavery, was irretrievably threatened by the election of President Abraham Lincoln in November 1860, the seven states of the South Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas seceded from the Union during the following months. When the war began with the firing on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, they were joined by four states of the upper South Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
The Civil War was a fight between two sides of our nation that had causes that led back to different issues and tensions in the history of our country. The Civil War lasted from 1861 to 1865, and had over 618,000 casualties. The Civil War was caused by many different reasons, but a few were economy, slaves, and regional differences. The first main cause of the Civil War was conflict between the North and the South about the differences in how the two territories ran their economies. From Document 2, it shows that the South relies on slavery for their economy.
Because in my perspective, this contradictory proclamation seems to be a political propaganda to support only the whites. Today I stand, as a runaway slave who escaped the grasp of slave owners and harsh Fugitive Slave Laws presented in the Compromise of 1850. However, tension has finally reached a peak between the North and the South due to the secession in 1860. I believe that several key events from 1845-1861 caused all this turmoil and crashed the regional differences between the Union and the Confederacy together. Eventually leading to the outbreak of the Civil war in 1861.
The Civil War took place between 1861-1865. There were several different disputes that could be taken into account for the war but the one that seems to standout as the most decisive is the idea to end slavery. In