America: War With Itself The Civil War was a war between two rivals, the South and the North. The South thought the war would last only a couple weeks or months, but it turns out, the war lasted over 4 years. Also, the South thought very little of the North during the war. For example, the South thought the North had very little supplies, small army, and a weak navy but the North proved them wrong. Abraham Lincoln was president at the time and was trying to abolish slavery from the United States.
The outbreak of the Civil War changed America’s future. It was a struggle to save the Union, but not as much of a struggle to free slaves. The South did not agree with the North about freeing slaves, so the South thought a huge conflict would decide …show more content…
In the Civil War, the South was fighting to keep slavery in the states. They did not have enough workers to farm, so they turned to slave labor. European slave traders shipped Africans to America from 1500 to 1860. In 1860 the South's agricultural economy was beginning to stall. There were 4 million blacks and 5.5 million whites in the South, almost as many blacks as slaves, but as there are whites (Guelzo 1). With warm climates, they put hard manufacture work on the Africans to grow tobacco and later on cotton.
One of the major battles during the civil war was the Bleeding Kansas. Bleeding Kansas was a brutal conflict against pro-slavery and antislavery parties. A fight between the two groups broke out on the Kansas border. In Lawrence, Kansas, on May 21, 1856, slavery supporters burned part of the town (Etcheson 1). In 1859, John Brown led an attack on five pro-slavery men and brutally murdered them in their sleep (Carson 1). After they claimed more than 50 lives, the newspapers dubbed the series of violent conflicts as, “Bleeding Kansas.” The antislavery party gained control of the territorial government and wrote an amendment to abolish slavery. (Carson 2)
A notable group that was form after the Civil War was the Ku Klux Klan. The Ku Klux Klan was formed by a group of Confederate Army members as a social club in Pulaski, Tennessee in 1865/1866 (Ingalls 1). Klan members soon terrorized blacks to keep from voting
The outbreak of the Civil War changed America’s future. It was a struggle to save the Union, but not as much of a struggle to free slaves. The South did not agree with the North about freeing slaves, so the South thought a huge conflict would decide …show more content…
In the Civil War, the South was fighting to keep slavery in the states. They did not have enough workers to farm, so they turned to slave labor. European slave traders shipped Africans to America from 1500 to 1860. In 1860 the South's agricultural economy was beginning to stall. There were 4 million blacks and 5.5 million whites in the South, almost as many blacks as slaves, but as there are whites (Guelzo 1). With warm climates, they put hard manufacture work on the Africans to grow tobacco and later on cotton.
One of the major battles during the civil war was the Bleeding Kansas. Bleeding Kansas was a brutal conflict against pro-slavery and antislavery parties. A fight between the two groups broke out on the Kansas border. In Lawrence, Kansas, on May 21, 1856, slavery supporters burned part of the town (Etcheson 1). In 1859, John Brown led an attack on five pro-slavery men and brutally murdered them in their sleep (Carson 1). After they claimed more than 50 lives, the newspapers dubbed the series of violent conflicts as, “Bleeding Kansas.” The antislavery party gained control of the territorial government and wrote an amendment to abolish slavery. (Carson 2)
A notable group that was form after the Civil War was the Ku Klux Klan. The Ku Klux Klan was formed by a group of Confederate Army members as a social club in Pulaski, Tennessee in 1865/1866 (Ingalls 1). Klan members soon terrorized blacks to keep from voting