Short And Long Term Effects Of The Civil War

Ruchita Patel
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Introduction (Paragraph 1) –
Background Information: The Civil War was a war lasting from 1861-1865 between the Northern States called the Union and the Southern States called the Confederacy in which the Southern states rebelled against the U.S. and seceded, but were later readmitted. This war was sparked by apparent differences between the two sides ranging from social ideologies, political compass, and industry, of which both sides felt individual. The Northern states tended to be more industrial, have fewer slaves, and had a larger federal government. The South was the complete opposite with its industry being shaped by farming and slaves (McPherson, 2021).
Thesis: The main antecedents of the Civil War were the debate over slavery,

However, the drawing of this line made the difference between “North” and “South” states more apparent (Van Atta, n.d).
Elaboration 1: The Missouri Compromise was just a temporary solution that only helped delay the Civil War by trying to bring balance in slave and free states and to bring balance in the Senate. The Missouri Compromise was not very beneficial as differences between the North and South became more apparent leading to more debate over slavery. The compromise itself became much debated over as well, leading to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which repealed the efforts of the Missouri Compromise in the first place.
Evidence 2: The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed for popular sovereignty to choose if the states of Kansas and Nebraska would be slave or free states. This led to a period known as Bleeding Kansas as the state was torn between the issue of slavery and tension began both in settlers of the state and the rest of the country (Denial,