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The American Civil War: War Between The States

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“American Civil War is also termed as the “war between the states” . The war erupted for four consecutive years (1861-1865). The civil war started as the war that was between the United
States or northern America and eleven southern states or southern America. The difference between southern and northern parts of the United States developed due to the social, political and cultural belief differences between the two sections. The differences let the northern part of
United States remain more and more industrialized while the southern part became a predominantly agrarian part. Tariffs, taxes, states’ rights and human rights in northern America are different from those of the south due to the civil war between northern and southern. The …show more content…

It was not right for the South Americans to continue with slave labor due to the reason that most of the slaves were mistreated at the factories and the plantations. During the 1840s and 1850s potato famine, most of the immigrants from Germany and Ireland migrated to North America. The immigrants were employed in various institutions at a lower wages. The payments that immigrants received were low, but it was not considered as slavery due to the reason that they were employed by their choice.
States rights triggered the civil war. States rights are the struggle between the federal government and the sole states over the political powers. The federal government was trying to practice to regulate or abolish the slavery in the individual state The regulation of the slavery trade was supposed to be regulated by the federal government due to the reason that federal government was right and besides it was the bigger institution as compared to the individual states.
In the 1830s the power of those who were against the slave trade was higher compared to those who were supporting slave trade. The claim for the obedience to the higher law of obedience to the existing constitutions showed that refugee in one can be termed as a refugee in all states. Therefore, slavery was not supposed to be practiced in individual states. The states that were practicing slavery were not adhering to the constitution; hence they were frustrating the federal …show more content…

In 1860, election, the northerners supported Abraham due to the reason that Abraham was fighting for the human rights that was being violated especially at South America plantation. Abraham Lincoln was right to campaign against the human rights violation since the slavery trade was displaying bad picture for America at large.
Conclusion
In conclusion, the base of the civil war was not justified and can be considered as a primitive base. Americans were not supposed to conflict due to the slavery issues. Instead they were supposed to collaborate and abolish slavery. America is a super power nation; hence it should act as a good model to other nations such as the developing nations. The drift between the North America and South America will take ages to gap due to civil war. Therefore, it is the duty of the future of the current and future governments to unite the two sections of

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