Civil War: Conflicts Between The Union And The Confederacy

Beginning at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, the Civil War, lasting from 1861 to 1865, was fought between Union and the Confederacy. This war was caused by a series of disagreements between the North and the South leading to secular division and conflict. The social, political and economic differences dividing the Union and the Confederacy ultimately led to the eruption of the war. As a nation the South depended on an agrarian economy in order to prosper. The southern economy in itself relied purely on the production of cotton and slavery. Following the invention of the cotton gin, cotton production soared in the South. Southerners believed in elegance and had values of chivalry which is why they discouraged the growth of cities & industrialization. The South not only discouraged growth,
Peculiar institution, as it was called, formed the biggest disconnect between the nations. Not only did the discussion of slavery bring up whether it was moral or not, it also brought up a lot of conflict regarding whether new states would be free or slave states. Southerners believed slavery was morally correct, that God created African Americans so that they could work for whites. The population of slaves in the South composed a very large part of the total Southern population while the amount of slaves in the North was a very small piece of the North’s total population. The Missouri Compromise, created in 1820, regulated slavery in the United States. All territory above the parallel 36°30′ would be a free state while everything south of the parallel would be slave states. This Compromise was repealed during the passing of the Kansas Nebraska Act. The Kansas Nebraska Act entailed stats being able to decide whether they would allow slavery or be free states. The passing of this act caused further conflict between those for and against slavery leading to Bleeding Kansas, and ultimately the Civil