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Discussion 12 11/30/2023 Why did the Civil War start in 1861? The Civil War was fought over slavery. Mostly because the Southern states wanted to assert their authority over the Federal government. The Southern states didn’t agree with the Federal laws, especially those that interfered with keeping their slaves and taking them wherever they pleased. Territory expansion was another factor in the Civil War. The South wanted to take their slaves to the Western territories, but the North wanted to keep it opened to white labor alone. The Republican party strongly disagreed with allowing slaves in the westward expansion. In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected to be president of the United States, his victory was without a single Southern vote, which lead the South to believe they lost all influence. The South turned to the only alternative they had. A political decision that lead to war. Causes Of The Civil War | History Detectives | PBS Why did the North endorse emancipation in 1862? What role did African Americans play in shaping that endorsement? President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1 st , 1863. (“The Emancipation Proclamation declaring "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious areas "are, and henceforward shall be free.") Lincoln’s hope was that the African Americans enslaved people in the Confederacy would support the Union cause and to keep England and France from giving political recognition and military aid to the Confederacy. However the Emancipation Proclamation was limited in many ways, the freedom it promised depended upon Union military victory. Although it did not end war the announcement of African American men allowed into the Union army and Navy. By the end of the war, almost 200,000 African Americans soldiers and sailors fought for the Union of freedom. Emancipation Proclamation (1863) | National Archives 4. Why did the level of violence and destruction increase in 1863 and 1864? What role did race play in this process? The civil war began to look like total war, and this involved many more deaths of innocent civilians. People were mad and frustrated about this, because more and more families were being torn apart and destroyed. The impact that the war was having on the everyday lives of people was increasing and there were even new rules being made. All this anger and
frustration was let out was through the New York draft riots. “The New York Draft Riots occurred in July 1863, when the anger of working-class New Yorkers over a new federal draft law during the Civil War sparked five days of some of the bloodiest and most destructive rioting in U.S. history” (HISTORY.com Editors). HISTORY.com Editors. "Causes of the Civil War." HISTORY, 15 Oct. 2009, www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/american- civil-war-history . Accessed 29 Nov. 2023. HISTORY.com Editors. "New York Draft Riots." HISTORY, 27 Oct. 2009, www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/draft- riots . Accessed 29 Nov. 2023. 1. How was the war changing in 1862 in ways that people did not anticipate in 1861? -In 1861 we saw the beginning of a war between the citizens of America. This was a confusing and aggravating adjustment for those who desired peace. It’s not everyday that a country decides to go to war with itself. It started at the drop of a dime and just as any war did, only escalated from there. In these times, things in politics did not change at the drop of a hat just because war had been declared but this time, they did. Shortly after the start of the war, in the summer of 1862, President Lincoln decided that emancipation and freedom for slaves was both a military and political necessity. He asked that borer and southern states accept this peacefully and he was met with war. Due to the dire need for it, Lincoln created the emancipation proclamation. This changed the war in ways no one ever expected. It transformed the war from a conflict to save the union into an all out war to abolish slavery.
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