Civil War

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Civil War

• By Chanel P.

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Issues that led up to the Civil War

• The immediate cause of the Civil war was slavery.
  All of the Southern states, including the 11
  states that formed the confederacy, depended on
  slavery alone to support their own economy. All
  Southerners used slave labor to produce crop such
  as, cotton. Opponents of slavery where worried
  about its growth, in most part they did not want
  to compete against slave labor. The main debate
  between the South and the North on the eve of the
  war was if slavery should be permitted in the
  western territories recently acquired during the
  Mexican war (1846-1848), including New Mexico,
  part of California and, Utah.

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Major events that took placeduring the war!

• Some of the events that took place during the
  civil war were in February 1861 the south created
  a government. At a convention in Montgomery,
  Alabama, the seven seceding states created the
  Confederate Constitution, a document similar to
  the United States Constitution, but with greater
  stress on the autonomy of each state. Jefferson
  Davis was named provisional president of the
  Confederacy until elections could be held.
  Another event that took place was in April 1861
  four more states joined the confederacy.

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More events that took place during the war

• When President Lincoln planned to send supplies
  to Fort Sumter, he alerted the state in advance,
  in an attempt to avoid hostilities. South
  Carolina, however, feared a trick the commander
  of the fort, Robert Anderson, was asked to
  surrender immediately. Anderson offered to
  surrender, but only after he had exhausted his
  supplies. His offer was rejected, and on April
  12, the Civil War began with shots fired on the
  fort. Fort Sumter eventually was surrendered to
  South Carolina.

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The outcome of the Civil War

• The outcome of the war was that Johnston made
  peace overtures to Sherman, and on April 17 the
  two commanders met in Durham Station, North
  Carolina, to discuss terms. Sherman thought he
  was doing Lincolns wishes when he helped heal the
  wounds of the war by offering more generous term
  than grant had offered Lee in the first place. On
  April 26 Johnston had surrendered his 37,000 men
  on the same conditions as agreed on by Lee when
  he surrendered to grant at the Appomattox court
  house. The North won the war! There was no longer
  slavery!

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Sifnificant constitutional changes after the
Civil War

• By July 1866, Congress had passed a civil rights
  bill and set up a new Freedmen's Bureau both
  designed to prevent racial discrimination by
  Southern legislatures In 1870 by state
  legislatures, provided that "The rights of
  citizens of the United States to vote shall not
  be denied or abridged by the United States or any
  state on account of race, color or previous
  condition of servitude. The last three Southern
  states -- Mississippi, Texas and Virginia finally
  accepted congressional terms and were readmitted
  to the Union in 1870.

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The Southern economy after the war

• The southern economy was left in ruins
• There was fewer skilled workers in the south
• There were many families without homes
• The South was left with less manufacturing
• Many homes where destroyed

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The North economy after the war

• The North benefited from the South being in such
  bad shape.
• All slaves where free
• Many homes where burnt or destroyed
• There was a lot of reconstruction being built on
  the North
• After the war America became a free nation!

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The Southern economy before the war

• The South had conflict with the North
• The Southerners opposed high taxes
• The South depended on Slavery
• The South had little manufacturing

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The Northern economy before the war

• The North had a conflict with the South
• The North had little manufacturing
• Firmly established a industrial society
• Wished for labor, but no slavery

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Debate over reconstruction

• Reconstruction emerged as an inevitable issue
  early in the war, and attracted increased
  attention as Northern victory neared. As Union
  forces gained control of large areas of the
  South, both Union commanders and the federal
  government were forced to make decisions about
  how those areas should be administered.

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The end of reconstruction

• The process of overthrowing Reconstruction
  governments varied. Everywhere, however,
  Reconstruction's opponents called for white
  racial unity and denounced scalawags as traitors
  to their race and region, and appealed to these
  scalawags to come home to the white man's
  party.

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Civil War, America

• The American Civil War is sometimes called the
  War Between the States, the War of Rebellion, or
  the War for Southern Independence. It began on
  April 12, 1861, when Confederate General P. G. T.
  Beauregard opened fire on Fort Sumter in
  Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, and lasted
  until May 26, 1865, when the last Confederate
  army surrendered.

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If the south won

• There would still be slavery
• The south would have a stronger economy because
  they would still have slavery
• The South would be in total control over the
  North
• The South would raise taxes in the North

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Credits

• http//encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.
  aspx?refid761567354
• http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/tl1861.html
• http//odur.let.rug.nl/usa/H/1994/ch6_p13.htm
• http//www.historyplace.com/civilwar/index.html

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THE ENDBY CHANEL P.