Discuss The Factors That Led Up To The Civil War

When Abraham Lincoln became president of the United State a civil war broke out which lasted a whole four years, reasons were many and one of which is for stopping the slavery which was legal in the 11 southern states South Carolina, North Carolina, Texas, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Virgina, Tennessee and Arkansas, they made the Confederate Unites States of America or CSA. The states that did not break away were called the union or the north.
The war was fought primarily as a war of liberation from the Union and restoration of equality, but during the war, the more industrialized Northern States recognized the slaves' release in states that fought against the Union, but approved the continuation of slavery in the Union states that had slavery. The Southern States based its economy on the maintenance of slavery. The majority of southern states felt that slavery could be abolished in the south because then an economic collapse would occur. Furthermore, many poor whites in the South were against slavery, this pressed their financial situation and made it more difficult to get work. Still others white people, for example, Robert E. Lee, was opposed to slavery on purely moral grounds. Some hostility arose
when the Democratic Party, who wanted to preserve slavery, split into two parties on this particular issue and consequently lost the election because of just that.
There were many factors that sparked the war, some were political and while others where cultural, but the main reason was the slavery.
When the Supreme Court invalidated a law from 1850 which said that runaway slaves must be returned to their owners, this aroused great displeasure in the south while the north’s John Brown gave his support to the establishment of a republic of runaway slaves. Brown, and eighteen Northerners, occupied a federal building in Harpers Ferry, Virginia 1859. He killed the mayor and took some of the city's leading men prisoner. Brown was detained later and convicted of murder and conspiracy and treason against the state of Virginia. His death made him a martyr for the opponents of the slavery and he was called a
saint.
In the presidential election in 1860 had the Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, a campaign against the expansion of slavery beyond the states where it already existed. Republicans advocated nationalism and in their election programs in 1860 condemned the threat of fragmentation that confession of treason. After a Republican victory, but before the new government took office March 4, 1861, seven states declared their secession and joined together and formed the Confederate States of America. Both President James Buchanan's outgoing government and the incoming government challenged the legality of the withdrawal and regarded it as rebellion. The other eight slave states rejected calls for secession at this time. No country in the world recognized the Confederacy.

Battles began April 12, 1861, when the Confederate forces attacked a federal military site at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. Lincoln responded by calling for a volunteer army from each state that would reclaim federal property, leading to declarations of secession by four slave states into. Both sides equip the armies as the Union took control of the Border States early in the war and established a naval blockade. Battle in the East 1861-62 was unsuccessful as the Confederacy repulsed the Union's efforts to conquer its capital, Richmond, Virginia. In September 1862 ended the Confederate campaign with defeat in Maryland at the Battle of Antietam, which inhibited the British from intervening.