1 Main Issue of Civil war

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Main Issue of Civil war

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
http://americancivilwar.com/kids_zone/causes.html
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761567354/Civil_War.html

There were various reasons for a Civil War to happen in America.These are political issues, slavery issue and disagreements began.The American Civil war was between the North and South of America, which separated southern states from the Union of an America.In the 1860,Republican Abraham Lincoln won the election.Lincoln election frighted many white southerns.Lincoln believe that slavery was wrong.He wanted to stop slavery from spreading to any new state.

According to the wikipedia,before the Civil War the political power in the Federal government start to changing.Northern states were becoming more and more powerful as the populations increased. Southern states lost political power because the population did not increase rapidly.As one part of the nation grew larger than another, people began to talk of the nation as sections.the Southern states felt a growing need for freedom from the central Federal power in Washington. Southerners believed that state laws carried more weight than Federal laws, and they should abide by the state regulations first. This issue was called State's Rights and became a very important topic in congress.

The website encarta.msn tells us that the issue of slavery Civil war happen in America. America was an agricultural nation and crops such as cotton were in demand around the world. Cotton was a plant that grew well in the southern states, however it was a difficult plant to gather and process. Labor in the form of slaves was used on large plantations to plant and harvest cotton as well as sugar, rice, and other crops. The invention of the Cotton Gin by Eli Whitney made cotton more profitable for southern growers. Before this invention, it took one person all day to process two pounds of cotton by hand, a slow and inefficient method. Whitney's Cotton Gin machine could process that much within a half hour. Whitney's invention revolutionized the cotton industry and Southern planters saw their profits soar as more and more of them relied on cotton as their main cash crop. Slaves were a central part of that industry.


The historical records of American civil war for kids shows us that, another issue of civil war was the disagreements began between North and south.In the presidential election of 1860, the Republican Party led by Abraham Lincoln had campaigned against the development of slavery beyond the states in which it already existed.Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States in 1860. He was a member of the Republican Party and he wanted to keep the country united and the new western states free from slavery. Also Lincoln believes that slavery was wrong. Lincoln disagreed with the South's laws and beliefs concerning slavery. The slavery had been a part of the Southern way of life for well over 200 years and was protected not only by state laws but Federal law as well. The Constitution of the United States guaranteed the right to own property and protected everyone against the seizure of property. A slave was viewed as property in the South and was important to the economics of the Southern cotton industry. The people of the Southern states did not appreciate Northern people, especially the abolitionists, telling them that slave ownership was a great wrong. This created a great amount of debate, mistrust, and misunderstanding. Many Southerners, who were Democrats, were afraid that Lincoln was not sympathetic to their way of life and would not treat them fairly.

In conclusion, The Civil War was one of the bloodiest wars of all time, and it was fought by people of the same country.It is amazing to think that such a thing could have happened to America. Only for political issues, slavery issue and some disagreements, about 260,000 rebel soldiers and 373,000 Union soldiers were killed.