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    The Civil War was caused by longstanding tensions between the northern and southern states over economic policies, cultural values, the power of the federal government, and the role of slavery. While slavery was a key issue, there were hundreds of other differences that contributed to the conflict. The election of Abraham Lincoln, who opposed the expansion of slavery, led southern states to secede and form the Confederate States of America. The Civil War began in 1861 and lasted over four years, resulting in the deaths of thousands, until the Union defeated the Confederacy and abolished slavery.

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    The Civil War was caused by longstanding tensions between the northern and southern states over economic policies, cultural values, the power of the federal government, and the role of slavery. While slavery was a key issue, there were hundreds of other differences that contributed to the conflict. The election of Abraham Lincoln, who opposed the expansion of slavery, led southern states to secede and form the Confederate States of America. The Civil War began in 1861 and lasted over four years, resulting in the deaths of thousands, until the Union defeated the Confederacy and abolished slavery.

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    The Civil War was caused by longstanding tensions between the northern and southern states over economic policies, cultural values, the power of the federal government, and the role of slavery. While slavery was a key issue, there were hundreds of other differences that contributed to the conflict. The election of Abraham Lincoln, who opposed the expansion of slavery, led southern states to secede and form the Confederate States of America. The Civil War began in 1861 and lasted over four years, resulting in the deaths of thousands, until the Union defeated the Confederacy and abolished slavery.

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    American Civil War

    Introduction

    Upon reviewing past readings and conducting further research on the


    Civil War between the South and the North, it can be easily concluded
    that it was impossible to avoid the conflict. Some claim that slavery was
    the primary cause of the Civil War. As a result, they claim that it could
    have been avoided if the slavery issue had been resolved. Slavery had a
    role in the conflict, but it was far from the sole one. Other disparities
    between North and South included economic and social issues,
    territorial expansion, and slavery. These differences, which numbered in
    the hundreds, eventually led to an unavoidable battle. The Civil War
    began in 1861, just after Abraham Lincoln was sworn in, and lasted more
    than a half-century. Thousands of people died as a result of the civil war.
    Even though the dispute over slavery was seen as the conflict’s core
    issue, the events leading up to it were far more complicated. Even if
    these events had not occurred, there would probably have been a war.
    This would be due to the tensions between the southern and the northern
    states. The Civil War was not solely about slavery. This paper has
    discussed the civil war’s origin, causes of civil war, and how and why the
    US’s west expansion policy led it into political and social collapse.

    Origin of Civil War

    The U.S. Civil War was the most destructive and most significant war in
    Western history between 1815 and 1914 during the world war. A bitter
    dispute over the union government’s ability to abolish slavery in the
    unincorporated territories led to the Civil War (Ponsa-Kraus). After the
    election of Abraham Lincoln as the first Republican president of the
    United States in 1860, several states from the South withdrew from the
    Union and fashioned the Confederate States of America. Secession was
    not recognized as legally valid by the new Lincoln administration and the
    vast majority of Northerners. By splitting the now-defunct United States
    into several small, feuding republics, they believed it would taint
    democracy and create a dangerous precedent.

    Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay was the site of a triggering incident in


    April 1861. Confederate forces launched an assault on the federal
    garrison that day, claiming control and compelling federal forces to
    capitulate by lowering the American flag. As a result of the rebellion,
    Lincoln called in the militia. The Confederacy obtained another four slave
    regions after its seceding. By 1861, thousands of men fought on a 1210-
    mile front from Missouri to Virginia. A novel state of West Virginia was
    formed as a result of Union victories around Manassas Junction in
    Virginia.
    The big engagements, however, did not commence until 1862.
    Engagements such as Shiloh in Tennessee, Antietam in Maryland, and
    Fredericksburg in Virginia set the stage for bigger campaigns and battles
    to come. President Abraham Lincoln’s original aim of limited war to
    reinstate the Union was abolished in the face of the novel approach of a
    “total war” aimed at destroying the South and its essential institution of
    slavery. The Confederate army was defeated in several battles, which led
    to its surrender to the federal government. The main Confederate troops
    gave in by the spring of 1865 (Matsui). On May 10, 1865, Union troops
    captured Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Georgia, ending the
    Civil War.

    Causes of civil war

    The Civil War grew out of longstanding tensions and disagreements


    about American life and politics. For more than 80 years, people in the
    Northern and Southern states had been debating the issues that
    ultimately led to war: economic policies and practices, cultural values,
    the extent and reach of the Federal government, and, most importantly,
    the role of slavery within American society.

    Against the backdrop of these larger issues, individual soldiers had their
    own reasons for fighting. Their motivations often included a complex mix
    of personal, social, economic and political values that didn't necessarily
    match the aims expressed by their respective governments.

    The American Civil War was the culmination of the struggle between the
    advocates and opponents of slavery that dated from the founding of the
    United States. This sectional conflict between Northern states and
    slaveholding Southern states had been tempered by a series of political
    compromises, but by the late 1850s the issue of the extension of slavery
    to the western states had reached a boiling point. The election of
    Abraham Lincoln, a member of the antislavery Republican Party, as
    president in 1860 precipitated the secession of 11 Southern states,
    leading to a civil war.

    Conclusion

    In establishing an economic balance and a balance between the North


    and the South, the Missouri Compromise may have ended the Civil War’s
    most stubborn roots. The conflict might have had even more severe
    effects had it started later in American histories, such as the permanent
    secession of several states. The Civil War was not just about slavery. This
    presentation has discussed the civil war’s origin, causes of civil war, and
    how the cevil war ended

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