The Inevitable Causes Of The Civil War

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.

During the early nineteenth century the United States began to split, but at the middle of the century people views started to become more concrete and so separation in the Union became more drastic. From 1850 to 1861 it was apparent that the union was separating into the North and the South. The Constitution played a major role in the separation that was occurring. Through sectional favoritism of bits and pieces of the Constitution and through ideas that were left out of it, the Constitution led to sectional discord and nearly the failure of the union.

Slavery, as Abraham Lincoln often noted, was the root cause of the Civil War. Tensions over slavery dated back to the contradictory nature of the American Revolution of 1776 that resulted in a republic simultaneously committed to freedom for whites and bondage for blacks (Barney W., p. 61). Within years North and South reached the point at which compromise was not possible. At that time Civil War had been started.

Convinced that no common ground could be shared with one another, the process of disunion between the North and the South in American began promptly after the news of Abraham’s election reached the South in 1860. On December 20, 1860, a special convention in South Carolina voted unanimously to withdraw from the Union, followed by the secession of six other states: Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. Representatives from these seceded states met in 1861 and announced their new nation as the Confederate States of America, immediately seizing arms and forts within their boundaries. After Buchanan refused to yield Fort Sumter to the rebels, Confederates fired at an unarmed merchant ship with troops and supplies, forcing it to turn back. Subsequently, the Crittenden Compromise, which guaranteed the permanent existence of slavery in the slave states as well as reestablished the Missouri Compromise line, was proposed, but ultimately failed due to the lack of Republican support. Newly inaugurated President Abraham Lincoln then sent a relief expedition to the fort, which was combatted with Confederate bombardment for two days, forcing the Union to surrender on April 14, 1861. With the immediate mobilization of the North and secession of four more slave states from the Union (Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee), the Civil War of America had now begun. As two opposing sides, both the Union and the Confederacy possessed their own advantages

It can be said that the South began the Civil War from a winning position. They had declared their independence, formed their own country and government, and they needed only to keep what they already had. But this was a monumental task as the government was required to protect every inch of land within the Confederacy. As a new country, the Confederacy needed to demonstrate the ability to defend its own territory from external threat. Without this ability, the Confederacy could never receive the international recognition and support it needed to survive. Aside from this reason, the South also needed to protect the institution of slavery from outside interference. If the Northern armies took control of a particular Southern area, the Confederates felt that they would free all the slaves, thus destroying the entire structure of society and its economic value. Because of this, Jefferson Davis was forced to devise a flawed war strategy which attempted to preserve the entire Confederacy at the cost of concentrating his forces.

The Civil War marked a defining moment in United States history, the Civil War started in April 1861. Some of the groups that were in the Civil War were the Unions, Confederates, and the Cherokee Indians. They all had different ideas on how to live their lives, some thought that what one side was doing was

The Civil War was the war that divided the young American nation into two opposing sides. One side being the North, also called the Union, and the second side being the South, also called the Confederacy. The root cause of why the South seceded from the Union has been debated and argued since the beginning of the war in 1861. Most people argue that the argument, between the North and the South, over slavery was the main reason why the South left the Union. However, the issue has to be more complex than just the issue with slavery. The root cause of the of the South secession from the Union was a combination of the South’s aggravation and fear over their dependence on the North for their economic prosperity and their dependence on slavery for a highly profitable economy.

The causes of the Civil War were complex and have been controversial since the country began. Some causes include; states’ rights, economics, and slavery. The most recognizable and popular cause is slavery. The freeing of the slaves was an important moral issue at the time and one of the greatest causes of the civil war. "It was only by carefully avoiding the moral issue involved in slavery that Northerners and Southerners could meet on any common ground." (Goldston, 79). The time came in which our great country would finally address the moral issue of slavery. Although there are many different causes to the American Civil War, the main cause was slavery because other causes are rooted in the issue of slavery.

During the Civil War, there were two sides, the Confederate Army and the Union Army. While the Confederates fought for slavery, the Union fought for their freedom. While the

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Those were the famous words of Abraham Lincoln delivered on June 16th, 1858 addressed to the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield. In this same speech he foretells the coming events, claiming that the issue of slavery has spread like wild fire in the south, however the north would stay strong. As a result the opponents of slavery would cease further spread, which would, in the public’s mind, that the practice was on it’s course into ultimate extinction. There is a truth in the say that ‘History is written by the victors.”(Winston Churchill). The Union certainly had the odds in their favors, however what would have happened if the confederates had won the Civil War? If this had been the case, a whole door of alternate universe are open to possibilities. If the confederates had indeed won the Civil War, America would still abolish slavery and would no longer be united resulting in a series of setbacks.

If the south had won the civil war the country would be different no doubt about it. Slavery would have still been abolished. First, it is cheaper to pay a man $1 a day and make him buy his own food and shelter rather than to support him fully. Second, groups of slaves would not be at your home where they might want to start a rebellion. The country would still have been divided and the South would still be a states' rights government and the north still a strong central government. We would have no personal income tax, which in itself is unconstitutional. Most of the socialists that redistribute wealth would not have the money base to spend foolishly, waste that

The Civil War was inevitable because the south had a very different economy than the north. By 1861, the south was still an agricultural economy, relying on slaves to work the farms. In contrast, the north was more industrialized, and there were many factories in the northern cities. People earned wages in these factories. The cities in the north were densely populated and growing faster than the more sparsely populated southern rural regions. They were growing not only due to the birth rate, but due to European immigrants flocking to the northern cities for jobs. This meant that the northern states would be getting more representatives in congress. Therefore, the north would have a stronger influence in Washington. Tariffs and other

Generally, it is thought to be the South’s fault for causing the Civil War. Contrary to popular belief, the Civil War was mainly provoked by the North; through using the federal government to overtake the South, removing slavery which would destroy Southern economy, and creating the moral issue of slavery. The North was the primary reason for the start of a war that ripped our country apart.

The Civil War was a very critical event in American History. It started by many disagreements between the North and the South. For blacks as for other Americans, the Civil War was a strong voice preaching the needs for devotion and allegiance to form a justified nation. After the war ended there were many results that would forever linger throughout America and the world.

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