Why Was The South Seceded To The Civil War

A war being fought from 1861 to 1865. This war was to determine Confederacy independence or the existence of the Union. The south, which was the Confederacy, declared secession from America and claimed thirteen states that agreed with slavery. The other states in the North, which was the Union, remained loyal and wanted to end slavery. This whole civil war was based around slavery. The biggest reason why the South receded was because Abraham Lincoln was elected president and didn’t want slavery in the states. So the South refused and created a new nation, which were the confederacy states. The people in the North did not want to accept the rightfulness of secession. They were scared that it would dishonor equality and create a bad example that would

break the United States into small, weak countries.

The ones that actually triggered the fighting war was the South. They came to claim Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. On that day, they fired upon federal barracks and forced them to surrender by lowering the American flag. After that, Lincoln called to overpower the Confederacy. This is what caused the millions of men to kill each other by the end of 1861. Many battles have taken place during this time in all parts of Virginia, Missouri, North Carolina, and South Carolina. But the serious fighting started the next year in 1862. The biggest battles took place in Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, and Georgia. And the consequence of this was the death of hundreds of thousands of men.

When Abraham Lincoln was president, he disapproved the spread of slavery into the United States territories. Before Lincoln was elected the first Republican president on March 4 1861, the cotton-based states formed the Confederacy. Some Republicans and Democrats rejected secession as illegal, and Lincoln declared that he would not start a civil war. The slave states kept rejecting secession and soon, the Confederate forces have captured many federal forts. This caused a peace treaty conference to fail and both sides decided to prepare for war.

When the Union went to war to retake the forts, four more states joined the South, which made the total eleven states in the Confederacy. Then ending slavery became a war goal with the Union because Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. In the summer of 1862, the North took out the Confederates navy and a lot of the western forces. This tremendously weakened the South because without a navy, they are unable to transport supplies and move troops. From there, the Union has captured every territory that they have fought for. The Confederates were losing so many battles that they ended up abandoning Richmond and planned to regroup at the Appomattox Court House, but they eventually found themselves surrounded by Union soldiers. This then led to the surrender of all the Confederate generals in the summer of 1865. But even though the military war ended, there was still another twelve years of political restoration, which was called the Reconstruction Era.

The American Civil War was one of the first industrial wars. This war included the use of a lot of railroads, steamships, the telegraph, and major weapons productions. All of the early technologies used in the civil war really prefigured the effect of industrialization in World War I. And the American Civil War remains as the deadliest war in American history and is also responsible for the deaths of more than 750,000 soldiers.

The Union army became victorious in the civil war. The Unions victory became very important in the United States because it ended slavery for good. The victory helped to modernize the South and create industry because it lacked transportation. Over the years, many factories were created in the South and it is now the fastest growing area in America.

Life for the families was very rough during the civil war.

Thousands of men would leave their wife’s and children behind to go to war. Some women would also go to war being nurses or spies. A lot of families also worked very hard just to survive while their husbands were off to war. The women had to find jobs or work the farm to support the family. Life at home for children was also very rough. Many of the children that were not eighteen years old would still join the army as drummer boys or bugle boys. The young children also helped around the camps by doing chores. The children that were eighteen became soldiers on the battlefields. Slaves during the civil war did anything they were told to do. Most of them worked in the fields all day from sunrise to sunset. Their only days off were on Sundays and holidays. There diet supplied by the slave owners was also very poor. They were not given any meat or fish. The slaves were also not given any good clothes to work in. It was also very hard to create a family because of the living conditions. They lived in huts and small shelters and slept on the dirt floors. Along with the food and living conditions, their health was very poor because they were not given good

nutrition.

The advantages of the North was that it had a bigger population, they had more advanced machines and weaponry, they had the navy and more money, and the North had more resources and more rail lines. The North’s disadvantages were that they had poor military intelligence and leadership, and many other countries supported the South which made a huge military threat to the North.
The advantages of the South was that it had a lot of quality military leaders including the best generals, they had good skilled soldiers, and the South believed what they fought for which was mostly states rights. The disadvantages of the South was that it had a much smaller population, they had very low supply of metal, they lacked weapons factories and didn’t have advanced weaponry, and the South also didn’t have a navy.
I think that I would have predicted the North to win because they had bigger advantages.
There were many reasons why the South seceded from the Union. The first was the social and financial differences between the North and the South. When the cotton machine was invented, cotton became very popular and it created a lot of slaves because of the cheap labor. So this made the South become a crop economy by depending on cotton, which was basically slavery. The South was based on agriculture and the North was based on more industry.
Then there was the problem of federal rights versus states. There has always been one side fighting for more rights and the other side fighting for more federal control. The side that wanted more rights formed a government with thirteen states. This weakness caused the leaders of this government to come together and create the US constitution in secret. But a lot of people felt that the constitution ignored the independent rights of the states. So all this then created the idea of nullification, giving states the right to control federal acts. But then nullification didn’t work so they moved towards secession.
But the main reason why the Southern states seceded was because Abraham Lincoln was elected as president and they also wanted to protect slavery. When Lincoln was president, South Carolina issued “Declaration of the Causes of Secession.” The South believed that Abraham Lincoln wanted to reach the Northern interests by being anti-slavery. And several states seceded even before Lincoln was president.
There were many causes of the Civil War. But most of the causes come down to slavery. Then during the issue of slavery, there was a lot of politics involved like political control. Following slavery was another key issue, which were states’ rights. The states in the south wanted to declare their power over the government so that they could end the federal laws that they didn’t support especially the laws regarding their right to keep slaves. There was also another big factor of the Civil War, which was territorial expansion. The Southern states wanted to introduce slavery to the western territories while the north was keeping them open to white labor. Then the new Republican Party was formed and was gaining prominence by opposing the west expansion of slavery into the states. And then when the Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected as president in 1860, he finally sealed the deal. His victories lead the South to the idea that they had lost. But then since they were feeling excluded from the system of politics, they turned to the idea of secession that directly led the country to war.