Civil War Thesis Statement

Topic Statement:
The Civil War, the bloodiest war fought in America for different reasons
Mission Statement:
The Civil War was a war fought between the the North and South in 1861. The Civil War happen because of hard tensions between the North and South over whether or not slavery rights follows with them in the new states in the westward expansion. The presidential election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 caused seven Southern states to secede from the Union and form the Confederate States of America, four more states later on joined them. The Civil War had many battles and the South had to go against the North and Confederate States which also made it hard for them. The Civil War ended in the

surrender of the Confederate States in 1865.
Introduction:
The Civil War started in 1861 for different reasons. Many people in the South agreed with what they were doing, which was slavery because that's what their economy was built on. The North disagreed with the South ways and when they were expanding more west, disagreement for what new states should be started. Seven Southern States secede from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America. In April 12, 1861 the Confederate forces Shot fired at Fort Sumter which boiled up the disagreement, more states broke off for either North or South, the Civil War was starting.
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The Civil War will always be remembered and known as the costliest and deadliest war ever fought on American soil in American history. The election of Abraham Lincoln caused the formation of the Confederate states, they didn’t want Lincoln as their President. The South had a lot to worry about because they were fighting in the Civil War against the North and the Confederate states, this left Lincoln in a tight situation. The fate of the South was decreasing as the war progress because they didn’t have much left of people and supplies compared to the North. Lincoln needed to make a decision that was either gonna help or fail the South especially since the North had more of an advantage and was more powerful than the South. Desperate times call for desperate measure, so Lincoln was deciding on whether or not to sign the Emancipation proclamation, because he knew the South needed it because they were losing many people in the war quickly and the rest of the population left was women, kids, and slaves. Lincoln knew many of the advantages and disadvantages of signing the Emancipation proclamation, he also knew many southerners would be mad if he signed the Emancipation proclamation. Lincoln had lots of pressure on him to sign the proclamation and to not, but in the end Lincoln did what was best for the South and so he signed it. The Emancipation proclamation had it’s pros and cons, that would affect the South and especially African Americans even after the War.
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The year 1863 Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation that would change the whole game for the South. Lincoln was reluctant to signing the Emancipation Proclamation because he didn’t want to lose the support of the border states. Lincoln was also pressured by African Americans like Frederick Douglass and other abolitionists to take advantage of the war and end slavery. With all of the fuse about the Emancipation Proclamation, there came more problems such as the slaves fleeing their plantations to join Union forces, this made Lincoln scared that Britain and France might intervene to assist the Confederacy. With all of these problems and situation coming up, Lincoln knew he had to put a stop to it too help the South win the civil war. Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862, this announced that all slaves in those states still in rebellion on January 1, 1863, would be freed. The con to this Proclamation was that it didn’t free slaves in the border states that remained loyal to the Union, therefore the Emancipation Proclamation did not free all slaves, the freedom of all slaves would come later on in history with the 13th Amendment(1865). Lincoln needed more help in the South and with the freed slaves came more help. This Proclamation also encouraged slaves in the South to join the Union and discouraged Britain and France from helping the Confederacy. The Union also began recruiting African- American troops for combat, such as the 54th Massachusetts Regiment.
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The civil war was changing the life of the South by the losing of the war and freedom of many of the slaves.

The turning point of the war was reached in less than a year later(1863), this would cause the North to win the war. General Lee advanced into the North again, and this time him and his Confederate forces were defeated at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in July 1863. The Confederate forces were hard to win against because they won many of the war battle that they fought in, so with this win the North was definite to win. More than 50,000 troops were injured or killed in the Gettysburg battle, Lincoln honored union losses in his famous Gettysburg Address, to let the people know those who fought in the war sacrifice their life for a better future for us. The day after the Battle of Gettysburg ended, General Ulysses S. Grant took Vicksburg, father to the west, giving the North control over the Mississippi River valley. During Sherman’s “March to the sea,” his forces destroyed all Confederate sources of supplies and they even burned the city of Atlanta to the ground. Lincoln won his second election in 1864 and by 1865 Confederate forces were finally winding down. With the winding down of the Confederate forces, this allowed general Grant to advance on the Confederate capital of Richmond. Confederate forces were surrounded and forced to retreat leaving Richmond vulnerable to attack. On April 9, 1865 general Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox(town in Virginia), virtually ending the civil war. Less than one week later, President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes

Booth.
Conclusion
In Conclusion the Civil war had many pros to it such as “ending” slavery, re-affirmed the existence of the Union, but this all cost the loss of 600,000 lives and destruction of property. The ending of the Civil war was the start of the reconstruction Era and the move of the South economy from depending on slaves to now depending on other things and business. This also was when the North experienced rapid industrialization in the decades following the Civil War. The end of the Civil War has shape America to what it is now with all of the new ways we adjusted to help our economy. The South suffered the most from this war than the North because slavery was prominent there and factories weren’t needed at that time in the South unlike in the North. Without the Civil War and the win of the North America would have been way different than it is today. Many things that was legal back then would have lasted longer such as slavery, slavery would have expanded with the westward expansion and spreaded throughout the country, and civil rights for African American would have come a way longer time for them. The Civil War had its consequences that benefited us in America in the end.