Origins of the Civil War

The southern and northern states clashed with one another in a violent conflict that was called Civil War. This war would decide whether both north and south would unify or continue unbroken. The difference between the south and north started in 1607 and then the Civil began between 1861 and 1865. Many events contributed to start of the Civil War. Some of these events were:

      In 1607, during the first sixty years after the founding of the colony, they turned primarily to indentured servants from England. In the southern colonies 1700’s they were 4,000 African Americans. At that year few of the indentured servants lived long enough to claim their land at the end of their service. They were exposure to disease and climate that killed a large part of African Americans.

      In 1787, the delegates adopted a formula that later was called three- fifths compromise that stated that all enslaved people would be counted, but then the total would be multiplied by three- fifths. This did not mean that enslaved African Americans would be allowed to vote, however, or that their interests would be represented in congress. North West black codes slavery technically illegal northern the Ohio River. Kept African Americans under the authority of the White Americans.

      In 1820, Missouri Compromise agreement made by congress with divided Missouri into two states: against slavery and proslavery. The open resistance led by Denmark Vesey and African Americans in South Carolina, This resistance was a disaster to many Africans Americans because many of them died or flew to the north. In 1830, the slave holders made up 36% of the white population. African Americans workers build economy.

    Later in the 1836 was the time of the abolition. They were resistant to abolition with the gagrute law which stands that all anti slavery petition could be automatically stable. Near that time the Mexican War was taking place between 1846 through 1848 that brought to question the slavery concept and many people revolt because of this making the white people think more about what decisions they should make. With this it brought the Wilmot Proviso that is was another problem. The African Americans in 1860 made up half of the population of South Carolina and Missipi.

    The Civil War had many causes but one of them was the inability of politicians to resolve the questions of whether or not slavery would be allowed in the territories. They were fighting about whether the South would remain part of the United States. During the 1850’s the North was becoming increasingly more populous and urban than the South. By 1860, nine of the 10 large cities in the United States were in the North.  The North had more telegraph wires strong along railroads. Then the North was more industrialized by 1860 the North had 110,000 factories compared to 20,000 in the South.

      In conclusion in the 1850 congress put together a compromise that was design to balance the demands of both North and South the Compromise was called compromise of 1850. Then California became a free state; in return the people decide for themselves whether slavery would be legal. Then in the Kansas Nebraska Act introduced in the United States senate in Jan 1854, proclaimed that the people would decide whether slavery would be allowed. All this events caused conflict between the south and the north that caused the Civil War.