Civil War Question 2

What were the causes of the Civil War?

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  1. moham says:

    hi it Mohamed
    The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other sectional names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy.the

  2. moham says:

    hi it Mohamed
    The Northern and Southern sections of the United States developed along different lines. The South remained a predominantly agrarian economy while the North became more and more industrialized. Different social

  3. alemr says:

    One of the causes of the civil war was slavery, and the northern people wanted to stop that because the were making money.

  4. moham says:

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  5. cunnj says:

    Hi Mohamed

  6. miarr says:

    One of the Civil War was slavery, people who were slaves were all the time angry and didn’t like it.

  7. franr says:

    Rio F
    The cause of the civil war was because the north Americans, wanted to ban slavery
    so that the south were not rich anymore.

  8. moham says:

    Mohamed
    The agrarian South utilized slaves to tend its large plantations and perform other duties. On the eve of the Civil War, some 4 million Africans and their descendants toiled as slave laborers in the South. Slavery was interwoven into the Southern economy even though only a relatively small portion of the population actually owned slaves. Slaves could be rented or traded or sold to pay debts. Ownership of more than a handful of slaves bestowed respect and contributed to social position, and slaves, as the property of individuals and businesses, represented the largest portion of the region’s personal and corporate wealth, as cotton and land prices declined and the price of slaves soared.

    The states of the North, meanwhile, one by one had gradually abolished slavery. A steady flow of immigrants, especially from Ireland and Germany during the potato famine of the 1840s and 1850s, insured the North a ready pool of laborers, many of whom could be hired at low wages, diminishing the need to cling to the institution of slavery. Learn more about Slavery in America

    The Dred Scott Decision

    Dred Scott was a slave who sought citizenship through the American legal system, and whose case eventually ended up in the Supreme Court. The famous Dred Scott Decision in 1857 denied his request stating that no person with African blood could become a U.S. citizen. Besides denying citizenship for African-Americans, it also overturned the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which had restricted slavery in certain U.S. territories. Learn more about Dred Scott

    States’ Rights

    States’ Rights refers To the struggle between the federal government and individual states over political power. In the Civil War era, this struggle focused heavily on the institution of slavery and whether the federal government had the right to regulate or even abolish slavery within an individual state. The sides of this debate were largely drawn between northern and southern states, thus widened the growing divide within the nation

  9. delvs says:

    it cased a main land to split in to two places the place that split became the Confederacy and formed there own content

  10. moham says:

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  12. cartf says:

    The south had slaves from Africa and the north wanted to ban slavery. So it caused a war.

  13. oconc says:

    Top 3 reason
    1.differences between the North and the South.
    2.States versus federal rights
    3. The fight between Slave and Non-Slave State Proponents

  14. franr says:

    Rio-F
    The war began when the Confederates bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861. The war ended in Spring, 1865. Robert E. Lee surrendered the last major Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865. The last battle was fought at Palmito Ranch, Texas, on May 13, 1865. Click here for a Civil War timeline.

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