Civil war in America was inevitable from the beginning. A country can not partake in slavery without an uproar. Tensions were high between the north and the south already because of their different ways of life. The north focused on mass production whereas the south’s biggest trade was agriculture. Slavery allowed the south to prosper, their whole economy was based off of it. Though change was inevitable two documents that sped up the war process were the Fugitive Slave Act and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.…
There are numerous long term and short term events that caused the Civil War to occur. From the long term impacts of slavery and the Missouri Compromise to the short term effects of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Bleeding Kansas, the Civil War was caused mainly by one significant step. Although Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Dred Scott had an impact on the civil war, it was not as significant as the election of 1860. The election was the most important event because it lead to the secession of South Carolina and also because of the drastic differences in ideology between the north and the south. The Dred Scott decision would lead to the ratification of the 14th amendment.*…
Although events leading up to the Civil War had been going on for some years, the Civil War was not inevitable; the war was the result of extremism and failures in leadership of both the North and the South. A widespread of political, social, and economic factors was all contributors to the splitting of the North and South. State rights, controversy over slavery, and differences in economic systems pushed the North and South into a bloody battle.…
How did the civil war come to be? We can go back to as far as 1492. There were many seemingly unconnected events that led to the start of the civil war. Including the introduction africans to america, their introduction to slavery, and the moral conflict surrounding the issue.…
Civil War was a really important moment in America. It led to the death of 700,000 American’s, and changed the course of American history forever. It also, ended slavery forever in the United States. There were many causes that led to this pivotal moment in history. The main causes of this war were: the 1850 Compromise, the Fugitive Slave Act, Dred Scott’s Decision, and John Brown’s Raid.…
Many conflicts contributed to the Civil war, but the most famous and well known one was slavery which happened around in the mid 1800s. The conflict consisted of the Northern and southern states. Each side had their own view on slavery as south used it heavily for their economic structure while North barely used it. In conclusion both had different views on whether the expand or stop slavery growth growth or to have slavery at all.…
Leading to the civil war there were a plethora of things that impacted the unity of the nation as a whole. Two major events that contributed to this were the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas Nebraska Act. Both of these events changed the relationship of the nation in many ways.…
The American Civil War is one of the most significant events that occurred in the United States of America. The Civil War, also appropriately known as the War between the States, was fought from 1861-1865. This war involved the rivalry between the states of the Northern and Southern territories. The War was declared when the Southern states declared their secession and formed the Confederacy, a new government, of the south. There has been many disputes over which societal events led up to this war and many scholars have tried to narrow down which might be the lead cause of the Civil War. The argument over slavery, the election of Abraham Lincoln, The Abolitionist Movement, and the Missouri Compromise are all leading factors that…
The origins of the Civil War can be found at the time of Thomas Jefferson when he wrote in the Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Although Jefferson wouldn't know that this would start a war a hundred years after he wrote them, they were used in debates by both supporters and combatants of slavery. However, slavery was only a part of the reason that the Civil War happened. Other factors such as economic differences between the northern and southern states, government influence and population also contributed to the beginning of the war. The war did not break out until all these things broke the southerners back and they decided to…
When the Civil War began in 1861 it began for many political reasons all of the reasons were affected by slavery, but the war was not entirely about slavery. It is a belief that President Lincoln and the north started the war because they were fighting for slavery, but this common belief in not completely true. They fought to protect the Union. Because of the willingness of the African Americans to fight in the war they changed the idea of slavery and new reasons for the fighting of one of the bloodiest wars in the history of the world. African Americans changed the Civil War, consequently changing the world as we know it.…
The fighting of the Civil War was the most inevitable event in American history with a loss of thousands of lives. The political battles were filled of reflections and affirmations about the perseverance of America and American government. The Northern states conquered and the country remained united. While the existence of slavery was the crucial component of conflict between the North and South, there was no other way to avoid war because the North and South had completely opposing…
During the 1850's, slavery, a southern necessity both socially and economically, threatened the unity of our nation. The tension's were high between the North and South, and further increased as more and more factors contributed to the strain in the Union. As an outcome of these factors, small and big, sectional hatred began to arise and commenced the splitting of the nation; ultimately leading to the American Civil War.…
The Civil War was fought between the Northern and Southern states of of America. Was the Civil War inevitable? It was a conflict bound to happen due to the differences between the North and South’s views on slavery, society, and politics. The South wanted their independence and freedom from the North, while the North wanted unity.…
The civil war was inevitable in the 1850s and by two sides that did not agree with each other on a lot of stuff but the most important one was slavery, which was Northern and southern states that could not agree with each other .”The south believed that they couldn't keep up with the Northern economy without the force of slavery. Some people in the North believed that slavery was not fair and also gave the South an unfair economic advantage”(prezi).This is saying that the south thinks they can't live without slavery and the north thinks it is unfair. The point where there was no turning back was in 1860 when Abraham Lincoln was elected. ”publicly announced his plans of abolishing slavery, it was widely protested against in the Southern states.…
The American Civil War is one of the most momentous and controversial periods in American history. America Civil War during the years 1861-1865 was resulted in the social, political, and economic differences that can be traced to the first colonies and are exemplified in the conflict between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. These differences expanded over time to result in the divided country of the 1860's. At the time of the Civil War, the abolitionists had many conflicts with South. The conflicts between the Northern and Southern United States were state's rights versus federal authority, industrialization and agriculture, and urbanization and plantation. All of these conflicts made the North and the South have violent attitudes toward each other.…