Hello everyone and welcome back to Nations Made Fun! I'll be your host, Mr. Nations. Today we are going to be exploring the goriest and bloodiest war in American history, the Civil War. Interestingly enough, this war was fought entirely on American soil, making it the war that has claimed the most American lives.
The American Civil War was waged from 1861 to 1865, making it a relatively short war as wars usually go. The war was primarily about slavery, but there were other reasons for it as well. The southern states saw it if that president Abraham Lincoln was elected, it would greatly impact their use of free slave labor. The northern states saw slave labor as unconstitutional and hoped that a new president would change that.
When Lincoln finally became president, eleven U.S. states seceded instead of giving up their slaves and way of life. Of course, the northerners opposed this, and this is widely believed to be the primary cause of the Civil War. The south had many advantages and disadvantages regarding the war. One of their main advantages was that the war was fought on their home soil, making northern soldiers more vulnerable passing through to the battlefields. One of the main disadvantages was that the south was worried that their slave population might try to rise up against them, then making them have to fight people from outside their territory, and people in it.
The north also had its fair share of advantages and disadvantages. An advantage they had was that the south did not have the more advanced factories and roadways the north did, in theory making them weaker. This advantage eventually saw that the Civil War was ended, and slavery was made illegal.
Like many countries, a civil war is a nasty part of history, but they all do eventually have to have one. Only eleven countries in the world have not had a civil war in their history, so civil wars are a pretty common occurrence. We part for now, but I'll see you again on Friday. Goodbye!
Sources: https://aaregistry.org/story/the-american-civil-war-a-brief-summary/
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