Civil War Paper

Civil War Paper

Latisha Dollison

His/115

May 3, 2015

Mr. Randy Shuler

Civil War Paper

The Civil was fought between Americans from the North and the South. Many factors led to the eventual conflict, but none was more important than the issue of slavery. While Northerners felt slavery was essentially against what America stood for, Southerners depended on slavery to maintain the economy! The Southerners wanted to continue slavery so they can get by traded them for other goods. But the conflict resulted in the south wanting to secede from the union and exist as a collection of Confederate States acting as their own country. The North (Union) insisted on keeping the United States in-tract and abolishing slavery from the South. After four to five years and a collection of bloody battles, the North won the war despite having military leaders who were not as experienced as the South’s an sustaining more causalities. In the documentary the Civil War historian Shelby Foote stated , Any understanding of this nation has to be based . . . on an understanding of the Civil War. . . . The Civil War defined us as what we are, and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things. It is very necessary if you’re going to understand the American character in the 20th century to learn about this enormous catastrophe of the mid-19th century. It was the crossroads of our being. (Burns & Burns, Episode 1: the cause, 1990) What Foote was referring to in this quote was how the civil war shaped the United States into the great power it has been known for since the end of the war. After the war ended, America began a period of tremendous growth, led by President Abraham Lincoln that sheered America in a direction that has grown into a country of great power. Many Northerners felt forced labor was morally wrong and with the passing of the Emancipation Proclamation and the Re-elected of Lincoln as the President. ? Lincoln didn’t care for the slavery the reason why...