The Civil War was started due to seven states in the lower south that had already formed the Confederate States of America and threats of more successions remained. Lincoln was just elected and he had promised not to interfere where slavery already existed. “By succeeding the southern slaveholding class also proclaimed its unwillingness to become a permanent minority in the nation, still not all slave states were yet willing to cut their ties to the nation and Northerners too disagreed about the consequences of secession and the appropriate response to it. Once fighting erupted however preparations for war became the primary focus in both the North and the South (the nation goes to war …show more content…
More than 620,000 men died in the Civil War. The southern states were occupied by Union soldiers, rebuilt, and gradually re-admitted to the United States. Some might say the civil war was fought for the power to control the west and western expansion, but I think it was because of vendettas between northern and southern states on the idea of slavery. Because, after the war was over, the Constitution was amended to free the slaves, to assure “equal protection under the law” for American citizens, and to grant black men the right to