Question about Civil War...?

Question

I'm writing a paper on Civil War, and I need an introduction... I really don't know what to say. I have to have 4 "chapters". This is how I organized it:
1. Introduction
2. Causes and Background of the War
3. The War
4. Results of the War.
I wrote everything except for the intro... I need just a couple of sentences...

Answer 1

Regardless of what our history books reflect or what is being taught us the American Civil War was over States Right. Think about this the South prior to the war, during and afterwards a time when the “N” word was used openly a time when whatever the reason(s) for the war could have been anything and everything. What did it matter to a group who thought they would win; who later thought they were winning claim then and since the War was over “States Rights”. If it were over slavery Lincoln offered to allow the South to keep their slaves if only they would come back into the Union.

With the election of Lincoln the Southern States felt they had no choice and took drastic action and secede from the Union. If not over Slavery then why did the South take these steps? In 1860, Southern agrarians were at heel to the nation's bankers and industrialists. That just got worse with the election of the Republican Lincoln, bringing back into power the party favoring the wealthy supply side, as it still does. Then as now central to that, party's interest was keeping down the cost of manufacture. Today labor is the big cost, so today they move the plants offshore and leave US workers to their fate. Back before the US labor movement existed the big cost was raw materials, and the GOP was just as unprincipled toward its Southern suppliers as it is today toward labor.
Thanks to modern graveyard science and surviving records, researchers know that in 1760, 100 years before the War Between the States, Charleston, South Carolina, had the largest population of slaves and we say proudly the second largest slave population was in New York City.

One of the main quarrels was about taxes paid on goods brought into this country from foreign countries. This tax was called a tariff. Southerners felt these tariffs were unfair and aimed toward them because they imported a wider variety of goods than most Northern people. Taxes were also placed on many Southern goods that were shipped to foreign countries, an expense that was not always applied to Northern goods of equal value. An awkward economic structure allowed states and private transportation companies to do this, which also affected Southern banks that found themselves paying higher interest rates on loans made with banks in the North. As industry in the North expanded, it looked towards southern markets, rich with cash from the lucrative agricultural business, to buy the North's manufactured goods. The situation grew worse after several "panics", including one in 1857 that affected more Northern banks than Southern. Southern financiers found themselves burdened with high payments just to save Northern banks that had suffered financial losses through poor investment. However, it was often cheaper for the South to purchase the goods abroad. In order to "protect" the northern industries Jackson slapped a tariff on many of the imported goods that could be manufactured in the North. When South Carolina passed the Ordinance of Nullification in November 1832, refusing to collect the tariff and threatening to withdraw from the Union, Jackson ordered federal troops to Charleston. A secession crisis was averted when Congress revised the Tariff of Abominations in February 1833. The Panic of 1837 and the ensuing depression began to gnaw like a hungry animal on the flesh of the American system. The disparity between northern and southern economies was exacerbated. Before and after the depression the economy of the South prospered. Southern cotton sold abroad totaled 57% of all American exports before the war. The Panic of 1857 devastated the North and left the South virtually untouched. The clash of a wealthy, agricultural South and a poorer, industrial North was intensified by abolitionists who were not above using class struggle to further their cause.
In the years before the Civil War the political power in the Federal government, centered in Washington, D.C., was changing. Northern and mid-western states were becoming more and more powerful as the populations increased. Southern states lost political power because the population did not increase as rapidly. As one portion of the nation grew larger than another, people began to talk of the nation as sections. This was called sectionalism. Just as the original thirteen colonies fought for their independence almost 100 years earlier, the Southern states felt a growing need for freedom from the central Federal authority in Washington. Southerners believed that state laws carried more weight than Federal laws, and they should abide by the state regulations first. This issue was called State's Rights and became a very warm topic in congress. If true why then isn’t this being reflected in our history books? One of the Souths greatest general, a gentleman recognized and respected by his enemies General Patrick Cleburne stated early in the war. “Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy, that our youths will be taught by Northern school teachers; learn from Northern school books THEIR version of the war”.

On December 20, 1860, a secession convention met in South Carolina and adopted an Ordinance of Secession from the Union. Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas quickly followed suit. Jefferson Davis was chosen as the President for a six-year term of office. The Constitution by which the permanent government of the Confederate States of America was formed was reported by the committee and adopted by the Provisional Congress on 11th of March, 1861. it was ratified without delay. The remaining States Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina and Tennessee reluctantly seceded and joined the Confederacy. Many States and all the South’s leaders hoped and prayed to be allowed to peacefully leave the Union. This was reflected in numerous ways but one of the most prominent was that the South did not raise an Army least it be viewed a hostile act.

This set the stage for the saddest event in American history. In a conflict that used new weapons of war at least 600,000 Americans would lose their lives. In the South two of every three were directly affected by the War. A moment the political correct, schools and now even our Churches would have us forget.

You have individual losing their jobs for playing a recording of a minority speaking in an accent, there is not a group in the United States that you can say or joke about say the Southerner. The last true minority!


God Bless You and Our Southern People

Answer 2

nicely i might want to imagine that the yank Revolution is reported as that and under no circumstances as a civil conflict because we were not fairly part of england yet a chain of colonies searching for independence. We were attempting to develop into an self sustaining us of a as hostile to taking up Britain itself. The Civil conflict regardless of if composed of two separate countries develop into fairly between 2 factions of the same us of a. The union objective develop into to maintain the southern states that had left the union. the USA under no circumstances fairly recongnized the south as yet another us of a, nor (i believe) did the different us of a. contained in the yank Revolution France regarded us. Had the Confederacy gained the conflict it would want to have then develop right into a revolution in the experience that they keen to stay a separate us of a and under no circumstances overtake Lincoln's authorities. Had they taken over the different authorities then it would want to have nonetheless been a civil conflict. The defination of civil conflict is that both waring aspects come from the same soverign us of a.

Answer 3

If you are talking about the American Civil War :

The Civil War or the War between the States was fought during the years of 1861-1865. It was one of the most brutal wars in the annals of time.In this paper, I will concentrate on the causes and background of the war,the war itself and the results of the war which would eventually change the face on how people changed their viewpoint as to the gloriousness of war to the shocking reality about how ruthless humanity can be and that war can be hell on earth.

Answer 4

I thought it was called "The War of Northern Aggression". :-)

One of the causes of the war was that when our country’s founders signed the declaration of independence and wrote the constitution, they failed to outlaw slavery. This was a major stumbling block between the northerners and southerners as the plantations enjoyed the cheap labor. They opted to duck the issue in favor of the security of a larger unified country against powers like England, Spain and France.

Unfortunately, the issue did not die & had to be dealt with.