Civil War DBQ

In 1861, a Civil War broke out in the United States when the South declared their independence from the Union. There is a great amount of reasons that people can argue how the Civil War was started. However, what most people don’t understand, is that most of the events leading up to the Civil War were related to slavery. Slavery was the core of the North and South’s conflict, which led to a very vicious feud.

The controversy over slaves ultimately led to the secession. Abraham Lincoln thinks slavery is wrong and he wants to stop it from spreading. Earlier, he had warned that slavery could separate a nation. In the 1860 election Lincoln is elected, but southerners are worried he will end slavery forever. Southern states start to secede because they are worried. First South Carolina succeeds, then North, Texas, and then Florida too. They give themselves a new name called the Confederate States of America. (Wise...)

The final cause leading to the Civil War was Abraham Lincoln’s election. Lincoln in truth fought for and against slavery depending on the situation. However, Southerners strongly believed Lincoln was anti-slavery. So before Lincoln even entered the office seven states had already seceded. These states included the following: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. Lincoln was moderate towards slavery at first, but many congressmen agreed that the South was becoming too strong and slavery should not be

During the late 1800’s there was conflict between the Northern and Southern states causing what we call now the Civil War. This war started due to free and slave states holding different opinions on whether the government had the power to prohibit slavery in territories that were not yet states. Abraham Lincoln was elected to office in 1860, pledging to keep slavery out of new territories. After hearing about this seven southern slave states decided to secede and form a new nation, the Confederate States of America. The Northern states did not acknowledge the secession fearing the final outcome would be a division of all the states, this is where the Civil War began. From 1861 up until 1865 there were many small battles fought

The slaves states secede from the Union since the South thought Abraham Lincoln would try to end slavery. To many southerners, it seemed that the South no longer had a voice in the national government(textbook 500). The southern states secede from the Union since they felt they had no voice in their own country anymore. The South thinks Abraham Lincoln was trying to take slavery away from them. Therefore, Many southerners favored secession as part of the idea that the states have rights and powers which the federal government cannot legally deny(Document 5). Many southerners favored secession as part of the idea that the states have rights and powers which the federal government cannot legally deny(Document 5) The South believed that Abraham Lincoln was against slavery which lead to the states

Subsequently after the electon of Abraham Lincoln the south were outraged because they knew that Abraham Lincoln would not put up with the non-sense of slavery ("Causes Of The Civil War." History Net Where History Comes Alive World US History Online. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan. 2016.) The south knw that they had to do something about Lincoln, but they were collectivly unsure of what to do. There would be many assassination attemps on Lincoln and many of them would fail. One, however did not fail as Lincoln was shot in the back of the head at Ford's Theater, by a man named John Wilkes Booth. Luckily for the people of America, this was after slavery was banned. As the south knew that banning slavery would be Lincolns plan, this was another big reason as to why they would engage in war with the north. ("Causes Of The Civil War." History Net Where History Comes Alive World US History Online. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan. 2016.) After Lincoln's election, the south had wanted nohthing to do with a counrty ran by Lincoln, especially with the plans he had in store. All the south had to do to light the spark that would soon become war was to

In 1861, a Civil War broke out between the Union States and Confederate States of America. Many influences led to this battle, but there were 3 main disagreements that initiated the Civil War. The debate in the North and South about slavery’s cruelty and ethicality was a primary cause of the war. Another main cause was the fairness of the decision of the state’s rights and the fairness of the rights that the states had. In addition to the other 2 controversies, the allowing and wanting for states to disjoin the Union was another cause.

South felt that they would be left economically destroyed if the North were to succeed in

The South had just seceded and was extremely patriotic of their “new country”. The South would attack any one who threatened their vulnerable nation. The North’s desire to abolish slavery frightened them and they were

Prior to the election of 1860, it was obvious that the North and South exhibited characteristics of two different nations, even though they were termed the “United States of America.” Their views on political, economical, and social aspects on life resembled anything but a united nation with goals and aspirations regarding unity and equality. Due to regionalism in both the North and South and their development up until this point, Lincoln’s success in the election of 1860, the different views on equality, and contrasting beliefs on individualism acted as a catalyst ultimately causing the Southern leaders to secede and later declare war against the Union.

To this point, you can probably see that there is a clear split between what the North thinks and what the South thinks. Is it just me or our you thinking, “In this corner, we have the Northerners, and in this corner we have the slave working South!”. As you probably already know, the North supported freedom and absolutely despised the south who supported slavery. One of the acts that really showed this, was the attack on Harpers Ferry. The north was so disgusted with the south that they published newspapers against slavery. Some of these newspapers included “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Also, “The Liberator”was published by William Lloyd Garrison.

Despite the fact both Northerners and Southerners thought they were fighting against oppression and tyranny, Northerners focused on the oppression of slaves whereas Southerners safeguarded their own right to self-government.Even though the North and South thought they were undertaking the right reasons for battle, the differences were booming.

The clash between the 2 very separate cultures became the Civil War. The war began when the confederates (North) bombarded the Union (South) soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861. The southerners made huge profits from slaves and cotton so they fought to keep them. The Northerners did not use slaves because they didn’t need them for their economy, so they fought in the war to free them. The war lasted for 4 years and More than half a million people were killed. Towns and farms were destroyed, families were torn apart, and in the end, the South ended up

South Carolina also accused the Northern states of instigating “a war [that would] be waged against slavery until it shall cease throughout the United States,” (South Carolina) through the election of Abraham Lincoln as president. In Georgia’s declaration of secession, the reasons for secession are cited as “numerous and serious causes of complaint” (Georgia) against the non-slave holding states that were centered on “the subject of African slavery” (Georgia). In Mississippi, the consensus in the same; Mississippi’s position in the issue “[was] thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery” (Mississippi) and goes to list many reasons pertaining to slavery for its secession, most notably 1) The North “has made combinations and formed associations to carry out its schemes of emancipation” (Mississippi), 2) “has nullified the Fugitive Slave Law in almost every free State in the Union” (Mississippi), and 3) “advocates negro equality” (Mississippi). For these as well as other reasons all pertaining to slavery, the Confederate States seceded from the Union. In the Southern States, as seen through the declarations of secession from the Confederate States, the people, along with the governments of those states all supported secession based on issues arising from the conflict over slavery.

Northerners worried that another slave state might increase the power of the southern states in the government.