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I'm tryin to write a essay about the civil war, I need to know the reasons that AMerica became invloved in the armed conflict (which is salvery in most part) I need to find out what political pressures were involved around this time. Who was President( Abraham Lincoln) and how did the armed conflict changed his presidency or better or worse and an actual outcome of this war and a desired outcome.

The Civil was between the North and he South, which the north didn't believe in slavery but he south depended on the slaves to keep up with their plantation. This is all I know but I know there is more.

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The civil war was actually fought on a higher level than just slavery. It was about the 10th amendment. You see, in my opinion the slaves should've been set free by the constitution.....but it took years and the southern states held tight to their right to choose. The problem is slavery is in direct opposition of the constitution...governments were enslaving people (blacks) and withholding their life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. In the end, the civil war wasn't fought over slavery, not even the 10th amendment(state's rights),.....it was about upholding the constitution.....Can you help Please Thank you?
The civil war was not some noble-minded crusade to free the slaves as they try to depict in simple-minded movies, showing the heroic North fighting for freedom.



The South vigorously objected to plans to prevent slavery from spreading to newly-formed states. They saw this as a threat to their way of life.



The Missouri Compromise passed in 1820 made a rule that prohibited slavery in states from the former Louisiana Purchase, except in Missouri. Another issue that further increased tensions was the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. It created two new territories that would allow the states to use popular sovereignty to determine whether they would be free or slave. The real issue occurred in Kansas where proslavery Missourians began to pour into the state to help force it to be a slave holding state.



President Lincoln simply wanted to keep the Union (the U.S.) together. He did not hold many noble ideas about the slaves ever becoming real citizens. He did not consider the n.egro slaves as being the equals of whites. So the popular picture painted by school books is comically inaccurate. Lincoln himself said, (and I quote from the second website below:)



"I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing

about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black

races - that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or

jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry

with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical

difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever

forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.

And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there

must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other

man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.

I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is

to have the superior position the n.egro should be denied everything."

Abraham Lincoln



Source: September 18, 1858 - Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas

at Charleston, Illinois



The Civil War caused Lincoln to be hated in both the North and the South. It was an outrageously expensive war, and ended in the deaths of over 600,000 people. The outcome of the war greatly debilitated the South, and even to this day it is not as developed as the North.