Civil War Dbq

The Civil War was a bloody war. The war started on April 12, 1861 and ended on May 9, 1865. It was a fight in the United States between the northern and southern states. The war started because of states’ rights and slavery in the North and South. Abraham Lincoln (the 16th president) was in the war; he fought against slavery with the North. No other countries interfered with the Civil War, only the United States. The North and South were very different. The North depended on factories, railroad tracks, and trains while the South depended on plantations and slavery. In the next paragraphs, I will go more in depth about some of the things I have mentioned in this paragraph.
The civil war started because of differences between the free and slave

Also, like the North, agriculture and manufacturing in the South had to adapt in the times of war (Guelzo1). Many things changed at the beginning of the war, so everyone had to adapt to those changes. Speaking of agriculture, the South mostly depended on money from what slaves produced on plantations in the South--which was mostly cotton (Gale1). The Confederate didn’t really have any other way of getting money to buy other supplies. During the war, most of the fighting took place on the southerners land. This created many challenges around the southerners’ homes (“The South During”1). Some of these challenges included the farmland that they were growing resources on getting destroyed. This caused a major loss in money to buy more supplies. The hardships for southerners intensified when the northerners blockaded southern ports so resources couldn’t get imported or exported (“The South During”1). This also caused the southerners to have a major loss in money because they couldn’t sell their resources. At the beginning of the war, the southerners hoped that they could get aid from European countries such as France and the United Kingdom, but the South didn’t get much help (Guelzo1). This was a problem for the Confederate because they didn’t anything to help them out in the

The first battle though, was the Battle at Fort Sumter (Boritt1). Fort Sumter was built in 1829 to help soldiers defend the East coast if they were invaded or attacked from the sea. They didn’t expect that their own country would attack it though (Biscontini1). When they first built the fort, they only expected other countries to be attacking them. Not a single person was killed in this battle, which was kind of ironic because this battle started the country’s bloodiest war (Boritt1). On April 10, 1861, General Pierre Gustave Beauregard of the Confederates, was ordered to open fire on Fort Sumter unless the fort was evacuated (Foote1). So, if the fort was evacuated, the Confederate could just get the fort without a fight. The Union wasn’t going down without a fight though. Confederate forces were firing on the fort and finally captured it from the Union on April 12, 1861 (Boritt1). This battle lasted two days until the Union surrendered and gave up the fort. The Union tried to retake the fort several times after but never succeeded (Boritt1). This was the first and last battle at Fort Sumter in the war (Biscontini1). No other battle was fought at Fort Sumter after that first battle. The government tried to rebuild the fort, but had little success (Biscontini1). The fort was pretty beat up in the battle, so the government tried to rebuild it. In this paragraph , I’ve only mentioned one of the many major battles