Why The Civil War Began Essay

Civil War So many major events from the time between 1848 and 1861, lead up to the civil war between the Union and the Confederacy. “Historians have identified at least four main causes of the conflict between the North and the South: (1) slavery, as a growing moral issue in the North, versus its defense and expansion in the South; (2) constitutional disputes over the nature of the federal Union and states’ rights; (3) economic differences between the industrializing North and the agricultural South over such issues as tariffs, banking, and internal improvements; (4) political blunders and extremism on both sides, which some historians conclude resulting in an unnecessary war” (Newmon 247). Though these are logical explanation, to why the civil war began, I believe that believe that because of agitation over slavery, national parties in crisis, extremist and violence, constitutional issues, and road to secession ultimately led to the outbreak between the North and the South. The brief period between the
After 1854, the conflicts between antislavery and proslavery forces exploded in Kansas (…)” (Newman 252). In 1856, the civil war began in Kansas when a group of pro-slavery riders burned down parts of Lawrence, killing two and destroying many homes. John Brown was an American abolitionist, who led a small group of men; in May 1856, he and his supporters killed five pro-slavery men at Pottawatomie creek, in response to the pro-slavery events in Lawrence. Civil war in Kansas began this year, and continued until it merged with that nation’s Civil War in 1861-1865. “As ‘bleeding Kansas’ became bloodier, the Democratic party became even more divided between its Northern and Southern factions” (Newman 254). With so much separation and disagreements between pro-slavery, and anti-slavery, I can understand why they went to