Civil War Dbq

The civil was a major part of American history which determined what kind of nation it would become. While the revolution created the United States the Civil War was going to decide whether the nation was going to be a confederation or an individual nation. This would also resolve two major factor that were in constant conflict with each other, which was the fact that either the United States would become a nation of equal right to all races and having freedom for all or continue to be one of the largest slaveholding country’s in the world. The North and the South had established to completely different economies that relied on many different resources. While the South’s increasing need for slaves to work the cotton fields, the North had a growing production of iron and steel and the increase of factories. The major technological advances made a huge gap between the two societies. This was one of the major growing contradictions the South and North. At the time these were two very different societies that had different beliefs, religion, and reasoning. Of course there were several events that affected the start of the Civil war such as the …show more content…
This created tension in the Union and at civil was just upon the nation. Buchanan did oppose slavery and as president he did try to keep both pro slavery and antislavery parties as bay but this only created more tension. In the year of 1861 Abraham Lincoln was elected and at the same time the seven Southern states seceded this same year the Civil War was declared when Fort Sumter was bombarded for 2 days straight before surrendering on April 14. On April 15, Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to join the Northern army. Unwilling to contribute troops, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee dissolved their ties to the federal