History (Civil War

Introduction

During 1861-1865 , American civil war occurred between United States (the Union ) and the Southern eleven slave states that proclaimed that they had their own rights to secession , thus , forming Confederate states of America , which was headed by Jefferson Davis as the President . The United States termed as the Union that was made up of Free States together with B States under President Abraham Lincoln 's rule in the leadership of the Republican Party . The republicans were against the spreading of slavery into regions governed by the United States (the Union

this increased the desires of secession by the Southern states Nevertheless , the republicans refused to accept any secession rights from the Southern states . This then led to the civil war which broke up on April of 1861 , when Southern States forces attacked a military installation of United States (union ) located at Fort Sumter , in the South of Carolina , the very first state to secede (Holt , 1978

Causes of the civil war

Many historians argue that the slavery issue became the main cause for the civil war . However , there is no one simple cause of it . Many complex issues like slavery , party politics , and sectionalism , misunderstandings of federalism , expansionism , economical differences and modernization during that period contributed in the civil war (Holt , 1978

Slavery

Though many historians consider slavery as the main issue that caused the war still , other reasons were directly or indirectly related to slavery . Historian Holt (1978 , said , as the 1850s went on , an exacerbating , exhaustive and basically pointless conflict about slavery continued to be the main excluding all other issues . As Abraham Lincoln , a Northern politician by then , pointed out that the issue of slavery was the most important issue than other issues . He further states , Indeed , so much more important has it become that no other national question can even get a hearing just at present (Holt , 1978 The issue of slavery was in relation to competition by sections or states for the control of territories . The demand of the Southern states for a code of slave in the territories was an issue being used by the Southern politicians to divide the Democratic Party in to two . The division of Democratic Party ensured the election of Lincoln and also the secession . Though , Abraham Lincoln did not have immediate plans of abolishing slavery in the South , the Southerners all over the South conveyed fears about the slavery future in the South the moment Lincoln took over , leading to tensions that lead to war (Holt , 1978

The Southerners were also concerned about economic loss and racial equality that they may loss . In accordance to the Texas Declaration of Causes for Secession , declared that those states that were not holding salves were proclaiming the degrading doctrine that all men were equal irrespective of color or race . According to this declaration , African people were an inferior race . This issue of slavery contributed a lot to the civil war , the Southern states feared losing control of slavery to the...