So far in class we have learned about the civil war. This war is the most violent war the U.S. has been in. Huge amounts of soldiers were lost during this war. A total of 625,000 soldiers were lost in the North and South combined. The war ended at the Appomattox Court House, where General Lee signed General Grant's treaty. This basically ended the war.
The war started over a pleathera of reasons. The North and South had different views on how each state would be represented. The South wanted to include slaves in their population but not view them as people. This was the reason for the 3/5 clause, making this a big issue in the constitution. Since the South did not want to follow the laws of the Union they had tariffs put on trade goods and trade routes cut off. Slavery was a mojor issue too, the south wanted slaves to produce crops for money during the war but the north wanted to end slavery in the rebellious states. Abolitionists were a reason the South went into war.
The north was alot stronger statistically but the south was a well trained machine. The north was stronger in population, manufacturing, weapons, transportation, communication, and money. The south was stronger in farm acreage, strategy, training, passion, and generals. The Union had the troops and weapons to destroy the Confederacy, but they had no strategy. The south had less men lost battle beacause they were on defense durring the whole war until Antietam. Their attempt failed and they could never regain composure.
The north and south came out of this war with different effects. The north won the war. The south had to give up their slaves, and most of the crops were destroyed when Sherman stormed through destroying everything that they could. The south also had to join the union agian, they were no longer their own country. The south suffered economically, the cash crops such as cotton and tobacco are not producing as much money. The south was going bankrupt, everyone was in debt. The northern people were moving south and taking advantage of the land owners in debt, planting crops and making money.
The north and south were in a war that really shouldn't have happened. The north was doing what is morally right, every person has rights as a human. The south wanted to keep slaves and gain more and more money. The U.S. could have avoided this if everyone could agree, but instead they argue and go into the most violent war in american history. The north punished the south by rubbing in the fact that they won and were not in debt. America is now a whole as a country and not divided because of slavery thanks to the Emancipation Proclamation.
