How did the civil war start? and how did slavery ended because of the civil war?

what are other important things i should know about he civil war?|||There are walls and walls of books covering this subject. It would take days to answer this question.





Basically the civil war started over "states rights" The Federal government was trying to enact controls over things that the southern states thought were their own business. They quit the Union and started their own nation, the Confederate States of America. The Union fought to get them back into the one nation.





Slavery was legal in the southern states and in some northern states. After the Battle of Antietam in 1862, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation which freed slaves in SOUTHERN states, but not northern states. After the civil slavery ended in all states with the 13th Amendment.





The legal end to slavery in the nation came in December 1865 when the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified, it declared: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."














~|||There were several incidents that led up to the civil war, but ultimatley it was the Soulth Deciding to Leave the Union. The soulth wanted to leave because it believed the goverment was not allowing states indipendance because they opposed slavery.





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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Ci鈥?/a>|||The Civil War began with the bombing of Ft. Sumter, South Carolina. The Union Army occupied the Fort at the time and they had been without supplies since December 26. On April 12, 1861, President Lincoln decided to send supplies to the Fort. When Lincoln decided to re-supply the Fort, the Confederate Troops decided to attack. The Confederate Army told Major Anderson to surrender by 4:00AM or they were going to attack. At 4:30AM, General Pierre Gustav Beauregard gave the order to open fire. By the next day Major Anderson surrendered, but this was the beginning of the Civil War. Lincoln responded by calling for a volunteer army from each state, leading to declarations of secession by four more Southern slave states. Both sides raised armies as the Union assumed control of the border states early in the war and established a naval blockade





Everyone thinks that the Civil War was about slavery and the ending of slavery. It was not, it was about money and progress. The south had a money crop with cotton and they used slaves to produce cotton. They were used to producing cotton this way and the they did not want to change. However, this is one thing that not many people realize, with the industrial revolution came the cotton gin and I believe by the time of the Civil War the cotton gin was already in circulation.





In the presidential election of 1860, the Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, had campaigned against the expansion of slavery beyond the states in which it already existed. The Republican victory in that election resulted in seven Southern states declaring their secession from the Union even before Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861. Both the outgoing and incoming U.S. administrations rejected secession, regarding it as rebellion. Please note that it states that they were against the expansion of slavery beyond the states in which it already existed. This was Lincoln's campaign promise and many from the North were behind Lincoln on this they wanted to do away with slavery.


The American Civil War was the deadliest war in American history, causing 620,000 soldier deaths and an undetermined number of civilian casualties. Its legacy includes ending slavery in the United States, restoring the Union, and strengthening the role of the federal government. The social, political, economic and racial issues of the war decisively shaped the reconstruction era that lasted to 1877, and brought changes that helped make the country a united superpower.





Another thing that people don't realize about the Civil War is the death toll. The Emancipation Proclomation was actually issued with the intent of ending slavery, but it made it so that the slaves in Southern States had to actually fight their way to the Union Army and join the Union Army to fight for their freedom and the freedom of their families. It was originally issued because Lincoln could not get members to fight for the Union Army. Lincoln had a very troubled Presidency. In a lot of ways it reminds me of the Presidency of George W. Bush. Lincoln's children died in the White House. He had one remaining son, Todd Lincoln and he became the owner of the Pullman Train Car Company. Lincoln's wife was said to have gone crazy. He was really an amazing person. Millions of people came to Lincoln's funeral procession in Washington, D.C. on April 19, 1865,[79] and as his body was transported 1,700 miles (2,700 km) through New York to Springfield, Illinois. His body and funeral train were viewed by millions along the route.[80] Among those who viewed the funeral procession was future president Theodore Roosevelt. The morticians had to keep touching up Lincoln's make up for this journey. When he got to Springfield Illinois he was buried. Grave robbers actually kept digging him up and taking articles that belonged to him. They finally had to bury him in a concrete tomb in Illinois.





Also, this is important, the South went to England and actually tried to arrange a deal directly with England for the sale of cotton. They were stopped and it is a good thing too because if they had not been stopped it is quit possible that the South would have won the war.





Try Wikipedia for more information on the Civil War. I recently read four very good books about the Civil War. Some of the information above comes from those books and other of it comes from Wikipedia.|||one HUGE main misconception about the south ,or confederate, was that they were not fighting for slavery but instead for freedom for the U.S. think about it this way it was basically the revolutionary war because the south didn't want to stay due to high taxes and such (like the R.W.) and the fact was that the slave owner were actually pretty kind but to make the south look bad and to get reinforcement from other countries they added in the whole slavery thing and spread rumors about cruelty to the slaves.but there is Just so many complicated things about the civil war you just can't mention it all here there are things to mention like what each side ate ( very interesting and important) what major battles there were all of the important people and ways to find this out is to go to civil war re-enactment which there are many committees and google it you can learn more info that way rather than on the web|||The war started by the South firing on Fort Sumter. Kind of hard to play the innocent when you fired the first shot.