BY:•ANTONELLA ALOR•VALERIA PALACIOS

The America Civil War

GENERAL INFORMATION

The American civil war was in U.S.A . In April 12, 1861 – April 9, 1865 ( last short fired June 22, 1865) The participants of the war were:* Northern U.S.A* Southern U.S.A

DATE AND PLACE

CAUSES1.Economic and social differences between the North and

the South

2. States versus federal rights.

3. The fight between Slave and Non-Slave State Proponents.

4. Growth of the Abolition Movement.

5. The election of Abraham Lincoln

In the mid-19th century, while the United States was experiencing an era of tremendous growth, a fundamental economic difference existed between the country's northern and southern regions. While in the North, manufacturing and industry was well established, and agriculture was mostly limited to small-scale farms, the South's economy was based on a system of large-scale farming that depended on the labor of black slaves to grow certain crops, especially cotton and tobacco. Growing abolitionist sentiment in the North after the 1830s and northern opposition to slavery's extension into the new western territories led many southerners to fear that the existence of slavery in america--and thus the backbone of their economy--was in danger. 

In 1854, the U.S. Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which essentially opened all new territories to slavery by asserting the rule of popular sovereignty over congressional edict. Pro- and anti-slavery forces struggled violently in "Bleeding Kansas," while opposition to the act in the North led to the formation of the Republican Party, a new political entity based on the principle of opposing slavery's extension into the western territories. After the Supreme Court's ruling in the Dred Scott case (1857) confirmed the legality of slavery in the territories, the abolitionist John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859 convinced more and more southerners that their northern neighbors were bent on the destruction of the "peculiar institution" that sustained them. Lincoln's election in November 1860 was the final straw, and within three months seven southern states--South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida,Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas--had seceded from the United States

Civil War Background

CONSEQUENSES (I)

•Serious losses on both sides: there were approximately 600,000 war dead and the war costs 8,000 million dollars. 

• The U.S.A economic power becomes industrial. 

• It reduces the importance of exports agricultural south, to verify the accession of Egypt and India to the international cotton market. 

•Rise of the industry, accelerating the exploitation of natural resources, great development of manufactures. 

• There is a large urban population growth as well as demand for labor. 

•In the South, after the defeat of the aristocracy colonial, officially released the slaves, while revolutionize agricultural techniques. •Surge a new middle class of owners. 

•The problem transcends black American to become a racial issue, social and political even today still not stirred. 

•Obtained in 1868 blacks civil rights and 1870 the right to vote. However, restrictions voting rights and segregation to maintain relegated blacks as social class. 

•Under the mandate of President GRANT (1869-1877) who considered as a nursing administration veterans war, the U.S. live their darkest period corruption. The agents and officials of the North known as the Carpetbaggers, supported by the Army exercising dictatorship over the ex-rebels of the South. All this is manifested in the distribution of federal patronage, black riots and plundering of the Treasury public. 

•Under the weight of taxes, debts and arbitrariness, the southern planters undertake the fight to rule by terror, which best known realization found in the "Ku- Klux Klan"(lynching). Liberal Republicans try to clean up political life, but only very slowly. 

•The inefficiency and administrative corruption favor speculation and the formation of gangs, encourage individualism in social and private initiative in the commercial land.

CONSEQUENCES (II)

THE NORTH

THE SOUTH

OPINION

We think that the war is bad because a lot of people died and the world need peace.

“ A world with peace , its a world with friends”