Causes of the Civil War
America has been through much in it's existence. We got our nation started with the Revolutionary War. America had the slavery problem and of course the Civil War. We were the first to land on the moon. We have one of the strongest countries in the world today. America hasn't always been strong. In it's early years America actually had a struggle. America's government wasn't stable. Wars were putting the nation into debt, and taking the country's men. America has had a bitter-sweet existence with lots of ups and downs. This report will be over the years from the start of America to the Civil War. I will show how America developed up into when the Civil War started, and how the way this country developed actually caused the Civil War, the worst war this country has ever been a part of. One of the big reasons for the Civil War was slavery. It was an everlasting question at this time period. There were many big events that had to do with slavery. I will tell how events such as the Dred Scott Case, Fugitive Slave Act, Missouri Compromise, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, and the Compromise of 1850 eventually led to the breakout of the Civil War. Another reason for disagreement
between the states was how the government of the United States was being ran. The state had become distrustful of one another as they had never been before. America was now a country free of slaves. The Dred Scott case created more tension between the Republicans and the Democrats. "To the North, the South seemed greedy and corrupt; to the South, the North seemed greedy and hypercritical"(2). " The very next day the events in the territories reached their way to Washington D. When pro-slavery forces marched into Lawrence and threw printing presses into the river, because they were tired of free-state newspapers. We got the problems cleared up although we had to do it through war. Sadly we couldn't resolve the issue of slavery without getting violent and killing thousands and thousands of men. The Republicans needed to sweep the government in 1860, they argued, to clean out corruption and conspiracy from top to bottom"(1). North and South just could not agree on much it wasn't just slavery, although much of it was, some states were getting one sided.
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