What Caused The Civil War

History is a mountain, it has high points and low points. One of these low points was the Civil War. The Civil War was fought from 1861 to 1865 between the northern and southern American states over slavery. One event in history, the Civil War, should not have occurred due to the deaths, assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Jim Crow laws, and reconstruction.
The Civil War caused a significant amount of deaths. Because of diseases, battle wounds and poor quality prisons, “The Civil War was the deadliest war in the history of the United States.”6 The civil war produced the largest amount of deaths in an American war, there waere about 620,000 casualties. The amount of casualties in the Civil War was greater than the American deaths in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, World War I, World War II, and the Korean war combined. Due to the lack of
In 1861 both the union and confederates had more than two hundred thousand soldiers. Prisoners of war made up a large amounts of the deaths. Out of the 674,045 people captured, 56,194 died. These jails were often unsanitary and the prisoners were malnourished. The Union had a higher mortality rate in prisons,fifteen and five tenths percent, compared to the twelve persent mortality rates of the Confederates. 476,000 people were wounded during the war. Also, 204,100 people were killed during battle. The deadliest battle was the battle of gettysburg which resulted in an estimated 46,000 to 51,000 deaths. In the single day battle of Antietam, around 23,000 were killed. The diseases were also a large factor that cause many deaths. The number of death caused by