North Vs South Carolina Civil War Essay

Conflicts brought about war in 1861 when hostile rebels attacked the Union military base Fort Sumter in South Carolina. Differences in beliefs between the Northern and Southern states climaxed with the idea of slavery. The South who currently practiced slavery and the North who did not had been arguing for decades and in 1860 the debate had reached a stalemate. The South believed that the issue of slavery, among other issues, should be left up to the individual state to decide. South Carolina even went as far as to attempt to nullify the federal government’s decisions on state’s rights. The federal government rebounded when Congress passed a law saying that states must follow federal law. This led to sectional differences and loyalty to one’s section rather than the country as a whole. This contributed in pushing the South to the breaking point and eventually, in 1860, South Carolina seceded. Ten states followed suit in 1861 forming the Confederate States of America. In a desperate attempt to hold the country together and preserve the Union Abraham Lincoln, the Sixteenth President of the United States, asked Congress for permission to raise an army. His attempt to regain the South would become one of the bloodiest wars in American history. …show more content…
They had nearly opposite views on most key issues. Slavery was the most obvious of these issues; it shaped and intensified conflict between the North and the South . The North completely opposed slavery but in the South slavery was generally accepted. The majority of Southerners approved of slavery because it was a way of life in the south. Most southerners could not fathom the idea of freeing millions of blacks . The freeing of nearly four million slaves by the federal government would have spawned a new kind of hatred towards the north . It would have caused immense economic destruction in the South and would have brought about war in an