Bondage Civil War

Sadly the Civil War divided our young nation, this time we weren 't fighting another country for our freedom. We were fighting now fighting amongst ourselves--all Americans!!!! The potential to ruin our own nation from within was a distinct possibility. This was brother against brother-families divided. The Civil War lasted four years, 1861 to 1865.

First of all, extremism was evident in both sides. An example of this would be the incident at Harper’s Ferry, in which John Brown attacked a fort and tried to arm slaves with weapons so that they could revolt (Doc 6). Another example would be the fugitive slave act, which allowed for slave owners to get back slaves who had ran way and gone to the north. Two extremes such as arming slaves and having slave owners catch runaway slaves in the north led to a division in our country.

The civil war is an important event in the history of the United States. It began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate General opened fire on Fort Sumter, South Carolina, and lasted until May 26,1865, when the last Confederate army surrendered . All aspects of the war have been a topic of concern to the academic community, especially in the United States. In my opinion, the civil war not only important for American, but also important for the world. Here I will show you the main causes of the Civil War.

The Compromise of 1820 brought both sides of the slavery debate to an agreement. In 1819, Missouri proposed to join the Union as a slave state. If Missouri joined as a slave state, this would teeter the balance in the House of Representatives with a greater number of pro-slavery Congressman. In the compromise, Congress initiated a two-part plan; to admit Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state and a new boundary line was drawn at longitude 36◦ 30’ through the former Louisiana Territory separating free and slave states.1 The compromise settled each side for a time, but the sectional and political conflicts continued to escalate.

By the 1850s the radicals in the South essentially the Fire-Eaters want all limitations on slavery removed; they want to impose and intervene in the North to enforce what they consider their rights. They want to roll back the Compromise of 1850 and the Missouri Compromise. The radicals in the North essentially, the Abolitionists, want to restrict slavery; they want to end slavery. The real outer fringe on both sides resorted to violence. The middle ground was torn asunder. People North and South were forced to pick sides as year after year of intense political conflict continued.

During the period after the civil war, Slaves became an even greater conflict of interest that divided the states. On one hand, there were various Southerners who didn’t want the end of slavery to be consummated. The South had their own selfish agenda behind why they wanted the continuous use of slaves. On the other hand, you had many Northerners who were against the South’s ideals and believed slaves had the right to be free. During this time in the 1860s, slaves had numerous effects on many aspects each states way of life. They contributed economically, split the states, and played an important role in state sessions. All of these factors ultimately led to the slaves fate, as well was the fate of the union.

Between 1861 and 1865, the Civil War of the United States was fought. The war was the north against the south, the north against slavery and secession, and the south for slavery and secession. “During the course of the war, more than six hundred thousand Americans on both sides of the conflict died, making it to this day the bloodiest armed conflict in U.S. history.” At the end of the bloodbath, called the Civil War, the Union north won. Slavery was abolished and secession was no more.

Slavery was a big controversy during the eighteen hundreds in the union. There were always constant disagreements regarding number of free and slave states, popular sovereignty, and the basic rights given to the slaves, if any. One controversial topic was the Missouri Compromise. This was a compromise amongst the north and the south during Manifest Destiny. When there were new territories being discovered in the west, there was an agreement stating the new states north of Arkansas-excluding Missouri- would all be free states. The Missouri Compromise caused so many misunderstandings and disagreements, it is said this was an indirect cause of the civil war.

The Civil war is known to be the bloodiest American War, one that has tainted our history forever and is so significant that is taught to young children. The war had started with the whole conflict on how slavery should be handled with, leading to a bunch of arguments up in the North and the South. Until the south had said “Enough!” and decided to make its separate government for they had no longer agreed to the constitution and government, this is how the war had started. This war was about whether the south should be able to separate from the Union, it was only until the Emancipation Proclamation that everything had changed. That is when finally, when President Abraham Lincoln had decided to make the war about slavery. He made it all about

The civil war began on April 12th, 1861, and ended on May 9th, 1865. It had lasted about four years. The war was between the North and South. Northern states fought to abolish slavery and southern fought for slavery and states rights. At the time our president was Abraham Lincoln. All battles were bloody and worth a fight. The result of the war reunited us together as one.

The American Civil War began in 1861 and lasted until 1865. It was fought for a number of reasons and was a battle between the Union and the Confederate armies. The Civil War was an irrepressible event that occurred due to a series of occasions that pushed the North and the South away from each other such as the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the growth of the Abolitionist movement, the election of president Abraham Lincoln and The Dred Scott v. Sandford case.

Tensions began to rise between proslavery and antislavery factions with the U.S Congress and around the country. Soon enough, news about Missouri requesting for admission to the Union as a slave state, which wouldn’t keep the balance equal between the free and slave states, angered the proslavery and antislavery factions. The entrance of Missouri entering as a slave state would unbalance the equal number of states being free and being slave states. The problem was resolved, but a couple years later another Compromise arose where Northern California entered the Union as a free state. People opposed the idea of slavery (Doc B). States wanted to succeed because of reasons that they didn't always agree with (Doc A). Eventually, altercations occurred where eventually the problem was resolved but didn’t satisfy most people.

The Civil War took place from April 12th, 1861 - May 9th, 1865. It was a brutal and bloody war. It

The Civil war has been written about by Historians, but Historians argue more about the Reconstruction period that followed. There has never been a more hotly debated topic in American History then the Reconstruction after the Civil War. This was a period of political complexity and consequence of not only slavery but economic and immigration difficulties. The Civil War was officially started on April 12, 1861 and continued until May 9, 1865, but the Reconstruction was from 1865 to 1877, longer than the war itself.

Over 150 years, the Civil War had been the bloodiest war in the American history, also known as “The War Between the States” or “Brother Against Brother”, it was fought between the Union or the United States of America and the Confederate States of America. The war lasted four years from 1861 to 1865. What motivated these men to fight and what is the cause of the Civil War is a subject that many historians tried to find out.