On April 11 1861, President Abraham Lincoln told South Carolina Governor Francis Pickens of his plan to resupply the garrison commanded by U.S. Commander Robert Anderson housed at Fort Sumter. At 0430 on April 12 1861, Confederate Troops commanded by Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Harbor and 34 hours later the Union forces that occupied the Fort surrendered. This event has since been, what most assume was, the reason that began the American Civil War. A war which would eventually bring forth the destruction of the Southern seceded states four years later.
The new Republican party was brought to power in 1860 by a strong Northern vote in which Abraham Lincoln won the election coming to power on March 04 1861. The victory brought about declarations of secession and Southern leaders feared that Lincoln would stop slavery which was the Southern way of life. The South depended on riverfront and coastal economies that were based mainly on cotton and slave labor. So, 13 states decided to secede from the Union. Those states were South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Mississippi, Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Florida, Arkansas, Texas and Missouri.
It is assumed that the principal reason for the Southern States seceding from the North was over whether or not slavery could be expanded to the Western areas destined to become states. Congress would initially admit two states at a time, one free and one slave to try and keep a balance in the Senate but that didn't work in the House of Representatives. The free states began to outstrip the slave states in the number of voters, thus bringing on the free versus slave state issue. There were also other factors... nullification versus secession, abolitionism, and partisan politics along with white Southern Nationalism. The North, of course, rejected the secession based on their American Nationalism to preserve the Union.
The Civil War was the first war to use major industrial production, railroads, electric telegraph, steamships, ironclad warships and mass produced weapons. These weapons and the style of combat brought forth a horror of war that was beyond the scope of what either side imagined.
The South would eventually lose the war fours years later which would cost the lives of 690,000 soldiers, along with an undetermined number of civilian casualties. The Civil War was the deadliest military conflict in American History.
On April 11 1861, President Abraham Lincoln told South Carolina Governor Francis Pickens of his plan to resupply the garrison commanded by U.S. Commander Robert Anderson housed at Fort Sumter. At 0430 on April 12 1861, Confederate Troops commanded by Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Harbor and 34 hours later the Union forces that occupied the Fort surrendered. This event has since been, what most assume was, the reason that began the American Civil War. A war which would eventually bring forth the destruction of the Southern seceded states four years later.
The new Republican party was brought to power in 1860 by a strong Northern vote in which Abraham Lincoln won the election coming to power on March 04 1861. The victory brought about declarations of secession and Southern leaders feared that Lincoln would stop slavery which was the Southern way of life. The South depended on riverfront and coastal economies that were based mainly on cotton and slave labor. So, 13 states decided to secede from the Union. Those states were South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Mississippi, Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Florida, Arkansas, Texas and Missouri.
It is assumed that the principal reason for the Southern States seceding from the North was over whether or not slavery could be expanded to the Western areas destined to become states. Congress would initially admit two states at a time, one free and one slave to try and keep a balance in the Senate but that didn't work in the House of Representatives. The free states began to outstrip the slave states in the number of voters, thus bringing on the free versus slave state issue. There were also other factors... nullification versus secession, abolitionism, and partisan politics along with white Southern Nationalism. The North, of course, rejected the secession based on their American Nationalism to preserve the Union.
The Civil War was the first war to use major industrial production, railroads, electric telegraph, steamships, ironclad warships and mass produced weapons. These weapons and the style of combat brought forth a horror of war that was beyond the scope of what either side imagined.
The South would eventually lose the war fours years later which would cost the lives of 690,000 soldiers, along with an undetermined number of civilian casualties. The Civil War was the deadliest military conflict in American History.