Cause And Effect Of The Civil War

The civil war is not one sided. Both sides had their reasons to go to war. One of the main causes and most known was slavery. The Union said it was unjust and immoral, while the south believed it was okay to have slaves. An effect of this was the Emancipation Proclamation document. This document said that slavery was wrong and against god's will. This document alone was a huge statement to the south and foreign countries alike. This document helped keep foreign countries from aiding the south because they knew the bigger picture of the conflict and thought the south was unjust. Another effect of the slavery was that The Union had all of the freed slaves fighting on their side. This helped the north add to an already larger army.
This resulted in numerous deaths among white men who were killed. The whites thought that they could not have learned these thoughts of freedom on their own. The effect of this was they restricted education to black slaves. They thought this would prevent another rebellion among slaves since they couldn't learn thoughts of ever having freedom. This further engraved the thought that slavery was wrong in the minds of the
This meant he was strongly against slavery and wasn’t afraid to get his hands dirty in ending it. After word got out that in Kansas 5 abolitionist had been murdered, John headed out to Kansas to try to do what he thought was right. He murdered 5 slave advocates. Obviously this had angered the south, but he wasn’t done yet. He came up with a plan to free slaves using violence. He attacked a town and freed the slaves. His thought was that this would inspire other slaves to rebel and free themselves when they got word of slaves being freed. An effect of this was he was eventually found and hung by southerners. The North and south were already on thin Ice with each other. John attacking the town angered the south and him being hung angered the