American Civil War Essay

The Confederate-American War In 1860, the United States of America was locked in Civil War. The war divided the nation between the North (Union) and South (Confederacy). There were many factors that caused this war, but the main ones were the different lifestyles lived by each side in the North and South, the Kansas-Nebraska Act creating a tension between the topic of slavery, and the arrival of Abraham Lincoln the first Republican in office. These factors were very crucial in bringing upon of the destruction and instability of the Union. The first factor would be the increasing tensions between the slave states and the free states which, can also be observed as how each region produces types of goods such as the heavy industrialized northern states compared to the rural raw material picking in the south. In documents 1 and 3 they compare to how all the southern states produce raw materials such as cotton and food in which they need manual labor in order to make a profit. As an ever rising anti-slavery movement grows many people call for the end of slavery which anger local farmers and plantation owners due to their need to produce crops in order to live, The other argument to this topic that many northerners followed calls for African-American slaves to be free and given rights to the ever increasing unpopularity among slavery around the world. This would eventually led to extreme actions being taken such as underground railroads being built in order to free the slaves and, in literature such as Uncle Tom’s Cabin in document 4 in order to promote the anti-slavery movement. The second factor would be the election of Abraham Lincoln the first GOP president to take office in which many southern and heavily democratic states opposed. Following the victory of Lincoln’s election many states that opposed him seceding from which South Carolina was one of the first states that broke away from the union. Many of these states that seceded were against a big Federal