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One hundred and sixty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter; the Civil War still captures The United States imagination. In this report you will learn about the Civil War. The four main points that you will learn about is the beginning of the war, during the war, the end of the war, and why the war was even started.
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From the 1600s to the mid-1800s slavery was really big in the United States, because slaves contributed a lot to the economy of the United States. In the 1800s slaves were very important to the South, because the cotton gin was invented and the South’s most important product was cotton, but they needed people to farm the cotton and that’s where the slaves came in. Because they didn’t get paid to do work and there were plenty of them so they could have a lot to work for them and another reason for having slaves was to show that the white people dominated the black people. Although this was true a lot of people in the North didn’t like the idea of slavery so they tried to put an end to it in the United States. But it was hard for them to stop slavery because it was the South’s source of workers. Even with them wanting the slaves it wasn’t enough for the South to win the right to have slaves, so it was passed in congress that there would be no more slavery in the United States. But the South didn’t like that so they split from the North and made their own kind of nation with a leader so they could have slavery. Since the South didn’t get what they wanted this was the main reason for the Civil War starting.
Although slavery was the main reason for the Civil War being started there were a few other reasons that sparked the war. There was when, Abraham Lincoln was elected as president, a lot of southerners didn’t like that because he didn’t agree with slavery. There was also the reason that for the new states being omitted at that time should be able to have slavery, and of course the
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From the 1600s to the mid-1800s slavery was really big in the United States, because slaves contributed a lot to the economy of the United States. In the 1800s slaves were very important to the South, because the cotton gin was invented and the South’s most important product was cotton, but they needed people to farm the cotton and that’s where the slaves came in. Because they didn’t get paid to do work and there were plenty of them so they could have a lot to work for them and another reason for having slaves was to show that the white people dominated the black people. Although this was true a lot of people in the North didn’t like the idea of slavery so they tried to put an end to it in the United States. But it was hard for them to stop slavery because it was the South’s source of workers. Even with them wanting the slaves it wasn’t enough for the South to win the right to have slaves, so it was passed in congress that there would be no more slavery in the United States. But the South didn’t like that so they split from the North and made their own kind of nation with a leader so they could have slavery. Since the South didn’t get what they wanted this was the main reason for the Civil War starting.
Although slavery was the main reason for the Civil War being started there were a few other reasons that sparked the war. There was when, Abraham Lincoln was elected as president, a lot of southerners didn’t like that because he didn’t agree with slavery. There was also the reason that for the new states being omitted at that time should be able to have slavery, and of course the