Cause And Effect Essay: The Effects Of The Civil War

American had much to boast about in 1850, their nation was vastly larger, richer, and more powerful than in the 1800 but only eleven years later, the nation fell into civil war. America had struggled throughout time before the arrival of the civil war. The effect that lead to civil war was the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 (Bleeding Kansas), Compromise of 1850, Panic of 1857, Dred Scott Decision (1857), John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, and Election of Abraham Lincoln. The Missouri Compromise was the four-step compromise which make California a free state. They believed that they should solve slave trade and sectional of slave state and Free State themselves. (Faragher, 363) This was a political and slavery affect on congress based on slave trading, slave
It sparked the civil war between North and South based on Freedom of Slaves or the continuation of African American as Slaves. This made a war which became the bloodiest war in America. It was the fight between Slavey which ended with the 13 Amendement. The 13 Admentment was the abolished of slaves. These long events was the countdown to the Civil War which impacted history. The countdown to Civil War made political, cultural, and economical changes to the world. The significance of the Civil War in the history of United States was that it was the bloodiest war in history. The death of family members traumatized families who lost a family member in the war. Almost one member in every family died. The second significance is it was the first modern war. It had lots of characteristics to other wars and was a mass war where if one go to war, everyone goes to war. The mass of population during civil war was around 30 million. They relied on technology such as machine guns and canons. They mobilized the whole nation. The North only on goal and it was the goal to win. William Tecumseh Sherman marched to the sea to try and end the Civil