What Led Up To The Civil War?

The events of the Civil War and what led up to it, plus the outcome of the war during the Reconstruction, formed American history. This whole period of time took place from the 1830s all the way to 1872, and everything that happened helped the events that happened afterwards too. The Civil War did help America rid itself of slavery, but also birthed a new monster called segregation, which isn’t equally as bad as slavery, but it wasn’t good either. Sadly, these 40ish years were some of the most fundamental in proving that America wasn’t going to die out so easily. The first thing before the South’s secession was the slave resistance and abolitionists in the North. Some of the ways slaves rebelled against the conditions they were subjected to
Some people believed that violence was not the answer, but slavery had to end. The people who believed slavery had to end were called abolitionists. They were primarily in the North, and used newspapers and churches to make their point known. They called slavery a crime against God and criticized the government for allowing it to be legal. How, they asked, could America be the land of the free, if not everybody was free? An abolitionist named John Brown took it another step further. He led the Harpers Ferry Raid, which greatly increased the tension between the North and the South. His actions made him a hero in the North, and a villain in the South. Some abolitionists were once enslaved people. Harriet Tubman was one of these freed African Americans. When she was 30, she ran away to the free state of Pennsylvania. Even though she could’ve been safe there, she risked her life to get other slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad refers to the routes that escaped slaves would take to get to freedom. Harriet Tubman was a ‘conductor’ of the Underground Railroad, meaning she would ferry people to
He could never become one. This decision applies to all African Americans. They also ruled that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. This decision led to the election of Abraham Lincoln, which directly led to the South succeeding. The North’s advantage in the Civil War was that it had a massive population of 22 million. It had more food crop farms for feeding soldiers. It was more connected through it’s 21 thousand miles of railroad tracks. The weakness of the North was that it’s military leadership wasn’t as good as the South. Whereas in the South, its strength was that it had great military leadership. It also has the strength of it’s sheer size. It’s weaknesses were that it’s agricultural economy was not fit for sustaining a long war. It also didn’t have as many food crop farms as the North had. Plus, it had the distinct disadvantage that if the Union gained control over the Mississippi River, the Confederacy would be divided into two pieces. The Union realized this, and eventually the Battle of Vicksburg was fought. When the Union won, they gained control over the Mississippi River, successfully dividing the Confederacy into two