The Attack Of South Carolina

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 Civil War was provoked for several reasons which included industry, slavery, and territorial disputes among the Northern states and Southern states of the newly established United States. The first recorded engagement of war between the North and South is documented to have taken place on April 12th, 1861 at The Battle of Fort Sumter. This was the starting point of a war that would claim over 600,000 American lives in a relatively short span of 4 years.

　　　　Slavery was at the root of the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford. Dred Scott sued his master to obtain freedom for himself and his family. His argument was that he had lived in a territory where slavery was illegal; therefore he should be considered a free man. Dred Scott was born a slave in Virginia around 1800. Scott and his family were slaves owned by Peter Blow and his family. He moved to St. Louis with them in 1830 and was sold to John Emerson, a military doctor. They went to Illinois and the Wisconsin territory where the Missouri Compromise of 1820 prohibited slavery. Dred Scott married and had two

Frederick Douglass once said “What a change now greets us! The Government is aroused, the dead North is alive, and its divided people united…The cry now is for war, vigorous war, war to the bitter end, and war till the traitors are effectually and permanently put down” (Allen, 2005). In 1861, the start of the Civil War was needed by the Confederacy and the Union. Ever since the American Revolution and the birth of the United States, seventy-eight years earlier, there were many disagreements that began to tear apart the country. The main issues that were debated were state rights, unfair taxation, and slavery. Slavery was the main issue because it caused a separation between the north and the south. The north had mostly abolished slavery by this time because it became an industry driven economy, while the south was made up of plantations that grew crops. Almost half of the southern population was made up of slaves because about one-third of families owned slaves. The southern states wanted to break away to start their own establishment and we able to have slaves if they wanted. The Civil War began with the Battle of Fort Sumter. Fort Sumter is located in the Charleston, South Carolina harbor, three and a half miles from the shore. Many events occurred leading up to, during, and after the battle to mark it as an important part of the Civil War.

Dred Scott was a man that grew up in the tough times of slavery. Scott was born around the year 1800 and died in 1858. As a young man and all the way up to his death he tried several times to gain freedom for his family and himself through the Missouri court system, but failed. Scott then took his case to a court in Missouri, where he won only to have the final decision revoked by the Supreme Court (“Dred Scott Biography”). The notorious outcome of Dred Scott v. Sandford case embarked the start of the Civil War in the United States against the northern states and the southern states.

Dred Scott (c. 1799 – September 17, 1858) was an enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as the "Dred Scott Decision". Scott claimed that he and his wife should be granted their freedom because they had lived in Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory for four years, where slavery was illegal. The United States Supreme Court decided 7–2 against Scott, finding that neither he nor any other person of African ancestry could claim citizenship in the United States, and therefore Scott could not bring suit in federal court under diversity of citizenship rules. Moreover, Scott 's temporary

The Civil War came to be because the South seceded and declared war on the North. From the firing at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861 to the surrender at Appomattox Court House, The Union (North) waged war against the Confederacy (South). The South seceded because of the balance of power in America. There was more free states, which would mean they would have a bigger voice in the Senate than the fewer slave states. To protect their way of life, they had to go to war. The war before Vicksburg was leaning towards the Confederacy, the Confederacy won battles, such as The 1st Bull Run, Chancellorsville, Shiloh, and Fredericksburg; meanwhile the Union’s only major victory was the capture of New Orleans but the true decider of the War was the Siege of Vicksburg. Vicksburg was the gateway to the Trans-Mississippi region from the eastern region, when it fell, it became the beginning of the end for the Confederacy.

The fight over whether or not slavery needed to exist was a very controversial topic at the time. The North was fighting to keep the Union while on the other hand the South was fighting to become independent. The South had attempted to separate from the United States before but had not been successful. South Carolina was not a large enough state to be on its own. The second time they had tried they were successful because they had the support of other states such as Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi and more.

Then Bay relied on the testimony of Samuel Russell, who told the court that he had hired the Scotts from Mrs. Emerson, paying Mrs. Emerson’s father, Alexander Sanford, money for their use. The case of Dred Scott was about a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before he was brought back to the slave state of Missouri, Scott had appealed to the Supreme Court in hopes that he would be granted his freedom. In the ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court stated that slaves were not citizens of the United States, therefore Scott could not expect any protection from the Federal Government or the courts. The Opinion of the Federal Government stated that congress had no authority to ban slavery from a Federal

Lincoln's election went well and he became president of the United states but after a few months after that seven states had seceded from the Union. Many of these states believed and maintain that the primary cause of the war was the Southern states wanted to keep the institution of slavery. Others minimize slavery and point to other factors, such as taxation or the principle of States' Rights.South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union. South Carolina adopted the Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union on December 20, 1860. The document stated that We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it

The American civil war was fought from April 1861 through to May 1865 to determine the existence of the Union or freedom for the Confederacy. January 1861, 7 of the southern slave states declared their withdrawal from the U.S and began to form their own allied states of America. The South from then on produced and included in total 11 states, however, the north did not declare secession and stayed “loyal” to the US.

South Carolina was very involved in the American War of Independence. After the war, the state's policy was dominated by the conflict between the old communities near the coast and the new areas that were expanding and that had colonized Scots and Irish. In 1790, as part of that conflict, the capital of South Carolina moved officially to the interior from Charleston to Columbia.

Originally the American Civil war of 1861 to 1865 was ignited by long-standing differences among states and politics in the United States. The war was kick-started in 1861 when the Fort Sumter was attacked in South Carolina by the Confederates just after the inauguration of President Abraham Lincoln. The Union nationalist proclaimed to the constitution of the United States. this was followed by the withdrawal of the Confederates States from the United States which were in favor of expanding slavery and they claimed it was the state's right. Out of the 34 states that formed the United States by then (1861), Seven southern states that were in favor of the expanding slavery individually declared they withdraw from the United States of America to form the South or the Confederate States of America. Their proposed Confederate of American was joined by other states who were also in support of expanding slavery and the Confederate expanded up to eleven states (Nancy, and Steven). The Confederate States of America was not recognized diplomatically by the united states of America. The Confederacy was neither recognized by other foreign nations, however, it was granted a belligerent status by France and Britain. The other states that stayed loyal to the constitution of the United States including the Border states were known as the North or the union. Both the South and the North were forced to raise conscription and volunteer armies to fight in a war which lasted over four years.

The impact of the Dred Scott v. Sandford lasted from (1833-1857). Dred Scott was originally from Virginia but resided in both Illinois and Missouri for most of his life. One of the reasons he resided in Illinois, was because it was known as a free state. In 1846, Dred Scott entered the state of Missouri and sued for his freedom in the Missouri Courts; unfortunately it was an unsuccessful attempt. Throughout his life, he continued to challenge the Courts for his freedom, ultimately obtaining freedom in 1857. Dred Scott becoming a free black was the beginning of an American history revolution.