Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Civil war

The civil war is a war between factions or regions of the same country. The American civil war is the war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy from 1861 to 1865, it is also called War Between the States. The American Civil War is a war fought between the United State of America and Southern Slaves states during 1861-1865, which was newly formed in the United States of America. The war began due to the lack of compromise between the Northern States (Free states) and Southern States (Slave states), (Bruce Catton, 2004).



This war fought under the supervision of Jefferson Davis. There was a difference of opinion between the south and the north but the main crust area is the slavery which led to the civil war and where the north won. All the Free states are included in Union and also five slaveholding Border States, which were led by Republican Party along with Abraham Lincoln. The object of the Republicans was not to expand the slavery into the United State territories.

Before taking office by the Lincoln, the seven Southern states already declared their secession from the Union after their victory in the presidential election of 1860. As a rebellion the Union did not accept the secession. On 12th April 1861 conflict arose between them, as a result the Confederate forces attached at Fort Sumter in South Carolina on the installation of U. S. Military. Where as four more Southern states proclaimed their secession due to collusion of large volunteer army gathered by Lincoln.

More than two million Northern men, one out of five took up arms and participated in rebellion. (Ronald S. Coddington, 2004) In the first year of War, a naval blockade was established by the Union and they also controlled on the Border States and also established armies across the state. Numerous casualties took place in the battle of Shiloh and Antietam in the year 1862 first time in the history of U. S. military. In the south of America slavery suppressed by the Lincoln and declared liberation, which was the main objective of the war. CAUSES OF THE WAR:

The United States of America was governed by the articles of confederation. This brought strong center and week states. There are conflicts between the states in various issues and they were divided as northern states and southern states (American Civil War: Introduction). The causes of the civil war were in the form of political, religious, economic, religious aspects. The major causes are: Slavery and Control of the Government, Two Regions on Separate Paths Slavery in the Territories Bleeding Kansas States' Rights Abolitionism ( Kennedy Hickman)

There was balance among the number of states on the slave states and Free states. It was finally disturbed in 1850. The two regions north and south were on different paths. South supports plantations and slavery where as north supports industrialization and abolition of slavery. The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 further heightened tensions between North and south. Abolitionist movement in the 1820s and 1830s was intensified and stood as the major cause of civil war. Slavery was one of the major differences between south and north.

Slavery brought the sectionalism and this lead to the civil war. (Curt Lader, 1999). Agitation was arising for anti-slavery in the South and unavoidable debates were going in the North. In this juncture Lincoln played a significant role in order to achieve success for the establishment liberty from slavery. Further he expressed his desire about the detention of slavery; it should not be spread in the newly state, but most of the political battle highlighted on the expansion of slavery into the newly created territories, which took place in the reign of 1850.

With the enhancement of Southern movement towards secession all organized territories strengthened to become liberal states. There was a fear of losing control to the Southern state federal to antislavery forces. There was a fright to Southern state for losing the control over the federal government to antislavery forces. Conversely there was a threat to Northern that slave power dominating the government due to disagreement on the ethnical issue of slavery.

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