Civil War

Causes
Wars have many causes. Wars are fought for political
reasons and objectives.

Essentially, people or nations go to war to protect a

vital interest, defend territory from an aggressor, or to
achieve a moral purpose (such as defending the
innocent and punishing an evil). The Civil War
included all of these rationales. Each side used all
three justifications for fighting the other during the
four years of war. And, interestingly enough, each
side had a strong, valid, substantial argument.
Ironically, the war never really decided who was
ultimately right or wrong.
 What's a civil war?
You hear the word civil in such terms as civil rights,
civilian, and civil liberty. All are related to the
concept of a common citizen, a member of society.

So, a civil war is a war between citizens

representing different groups or sections of the
same country. Civil wars just don't happen. They
are unique in the history of warfare and usually
quite difficult to start. After they do start, though,
they are quite bloody and often extreme. People
have to be pretty angry and threatened to take this
kind of drastic step.
Jefferson Davis Abraham Lincoln
 The North had slaves, but freed most of them
(except New Jersey).
With the growing demand for cotton on the world
market, the availability of an easy way to separate
seeds, and a vast new region now available for
growing the crop, slavery became essential for the
South's economic future.

In the nineteenth century, before mechanization,

the growing and harvesting of cotton required the
labor of many people.
 The two most likely reasons for the South's
connection with slavery are as follows:

- The slave owners were the men of social and

political power. They were the ones who ran the state
legislatures and elected men of their kind to
Congress.

- Slave owning became the road to status and

success for Southerners who were ambitious for
wealth and power.
 The North, during this same time period, was setting
the stage for the industrial revolution that would
transform the nation in the next hundred years.
Technology harnessed to both agriculture and industry,
plus a huge influx of immigrants to serve as a ready
labor force, created a new dynamic economy.
 Homework
Industrialisation in the USA