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    The American Civil War was fought between 1861 and 1865 between Northern and Southern states over the issues of slavery and states' rights. Key events leading up to the war included the Missouri Compromise of 1820, the Mexican-American War, the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, and the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, whose anti-slavery platform alarmed Southern states. Southern states seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America, while the North fought to preserve the Union. The war resulted in over 600,000 casualties and the end of slavery in America through the Emancipation Proclamation and 13th Amendment.

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    The American Civil War was fought between 1861 and 1865 between Northern and Southern states over the issues of slavery and states' rights. Key events leading up to the war included the Missouri Compromise of 1820, the Mexican-American War, the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, and the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, whose anti-slavery platform alarmed Southern states. Southern states seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America, while the North fought to preserve the Union. The war resulted in over 600,000 casualties and the end of slavery in America through the Emancipation Proclamation and 13th Amendment.

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    The American Civil War was fought between 1861 and 1865 between Northern and Southern states over the issues of slavery and states' rights. Key events leading up to the war included the Missouri Compromise of 1820, the Mexican-American War, the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, and the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, whose anti-slavery platform alarmed Southern states. Southern states seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America, while the North fought to preserve the Union. The war resulted in over 600,000 casualties and the end of slavery in America through the Emancipation Proclamation and 13th Amendment.

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    American

    Civil War
    1861-1865
    Causes
    Conflict between Northern and Southern states was growing since 1850:
    Two different systems and cultural identities

    1860: The election of


    Abraham Lincoln was
    a turning point
    Causes
    Slavery
    Question of slavery ‘s expansion westwards and balance:
    Missouri and Maine (1819) & Missouri Compromise
    Mexican American War (1846-1848)
    Principle of popular sovereignty (1850, 1854)
    The Kansas-Nebraska Act and Bleeding Kansas, 1854

    The Whig party dissolved in 1854 and Republicans took their place
    Republicans wanted to stop slavery from spreading westwards
    The Confederate States of America

    Southern states were outnumbered, Propaganda, rumors and fear spread

    Secession of southern states to create the Confederate States of America, which


    was NOT a federal union

    The first state to secede was South Carolina in December, 1860 followed by
    Mississippi, Florida and Alabama
    Causes
    “Both Northerners and Southerners recognized slavery as the immediate cause of
    the Civil War” . Historian David Goldfield

    Lincoln, at the beginning, argued that the war was only about preserving the Union.
    He declared that the Union could not be dissolved by individual state actions

    “One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed


    generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves
    constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was,
    somehow, the cause of the war” Lincoln in his second inaugural address
    Causes
    Literature:
    -Uncle’s Tom Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Lincoln reportedly told the writer: "So you're the little woman who wrote the book
    that made this great war."

    -George Fitzhugh (pro-slavery author) attacked the capitalist wage system as


    worse than slavery.

    Religion:
    -Predominantly Protestants in North and South
    North: interested in reformation and improving society
    Methodist Episcopal Church
    South: focused on individual salvation
    Effects
    Union reestablished

    America’s deadliest war: over 600,000 soldiers died

    Southern destruction: most fighting happened there

    Emancipation Proclamation, 1863


    13th Ammendment abolishing slavery: ratified in December, 1865
    Around 4 million slaves were freed

    Congress passed laws to expand industialization


    Legal Tender Act, 1862, Pacific Railroad Act, 1862, Homestead Act, 1862
    Resources

    Alan Farmer “The American Civil War: Causes, Course and Consequences, 1803-77 ” 2008. Fourth
    edition

    Open Stax “U.S History” 2017

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY9zHNOjGrs

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