Essay On The Causes And Effects Of The Civil War

Throughout the course of American history, the Civil War stands as one of the most divisive and costly wars. “The Civil War had cost the most money on American soil.” (http://www.history.com) The following report will examine the causes and costs of this war, both economically and in terms of human life. There was many things that had started the Civil War, but the most important thing was slavery. The South had formed a slavery group called The Confederate States of America, which included South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. There was fear that their economy in the south would be gone if slavery went away. The election of Abraham Lincoln had also been an issue for the south because he had wanted slavery gone.

This had seemed like a easy battle for the North because they had more manufacturing in guns and just plainly had more population of the …show more content…
They had retreated from Fort Sumter in less than two days.” (http://www.history.com)Then Lincoln had called in 75,000 troops to be deployed for 90 days, the union thought this would be a quick war. “In the First Battle of Bull Run, 35,000 confederate troops had pushed the troops back into Washington D.C.”(http://www.history.com/) , but then the group of armies had gone and taken out that group that pushed them back. Then they had 500,000 people in the union take that small army and reclaim their land back. On August 29, The Second Battle of Bull Run had started taking place in Molasses, they had pushed the union back into Washington again. Then the Union had started attacking them from the sides. They had pushed the Confederate back to Sharpsburg and then settled into a winter battle. “During the fall and winter, both sides had trained to make more weapons, troops, food, equipment, horses, and mules.”