The Civil War (1861-1865)

Discover when the Civil War happened, who the key players were, and what brought the war to an end.

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[ricardo305]

thanks i learned something new today in just under three minutes

[ignitelearning]

Thant's what we aim for! Thanks!

[episkyros]

@Plat5: 800,000 people would fight to keep it, yes. AND because they felt they were under siege for living the way they were. AND because they were conscripted into their various states' military forces. All of the above.

Same with the North: most soldiers were conscripts.

Then again, that's nothing new. Do you think 59,000 people died in Vietnam just to prevent Ho Chi Minh (who?) from making like a bandit with Saigon (what? where?)

Anyway, I recommend reading antebellum history for a clue ;)

[Plat5]

Ok the war wasn't over slavery. the south seceeded because of unfair taxation and for better government. do you REALLY think 800,000 ppl would fight to JUST keep slavery? A lot of northerners including generals like Ulyses S.Grant and President Lincoln didn't care for slavery. The Emancipation Proclomation just freed slaves in the south, not the border states which was U.S. territory. ...... (continued)...

[GUALLACOL]

@imAcowMoo100 The south went into succesion because Abraham Lincoln was elected President. The southerners didn't like that because he was a tread to the cotton economy (via slaves).

[CM99501]

Oh cool....make the war look like it was all about slaves. -_-

[stopdroplol1]

@imAcowMoo100 Because every state is allowed 2 senators and a number of congressman proportional to the state's population (California has 53 congressmen). Even if though the South were allowed to keep their slaves they would more and mroe political power with each new free state admitted. Eventually there would have been enough votes to overcome the South and slavery would be banned outright.

[imAcowMoo100]

Wait why would the south withdraw from USA? If Abraham agued against expanding slavery. I'm Australian so I'm not very familiar with the civil war

[TheIphone4thewin]

@OhJosie92 False, Abraham Lincoln turned the war into a war over slavery so france and britain wouldnt help the confederate states. The war actually had many different causes and most southerners did not own slaves.

[bwild61]

Europeans are infatuated with the civil war....

[southerneroak]

IT WAS NOT JUST OVER SLAVERY!!!!!!!!!

[episkyros]

@BWF89: the antebellum southern vs. northern debates that made the 1820 Compromise (precipitated by the new territorial gains) and the 1850 accommodation (same), the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act, the 1857 Dred Scott case, and John Brown's assault on Harper's Ferry: all of the above, leading up to the 1860 Elections, might tell you that what the founders kicked down the road during the 1787 Convention (and said they were doing so!) was what politicians were rabidly arguing about. It wasn't taxes.

[AgrivatedKillah]

@BWF89 If the south had won they would of felt bigger than the union and would of kept slavery anyway.

So either way they deserved to get defeated.