When I look up “Civil War” in a dictionary it says “ a war between citizens in the same country,” but I say it's much more than that. Civil war is a war that creates this huge monstrosity within a country and splits up the bond between government and it's people. The civil war was fought from1861-1965. It was between the north and south, due to slavery. Although there were many reasons, slavery was the most important. It was The battle between Slave state and the Non-Slave State that made the difference in America. Slavery was a tradition all through the American colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries, African-American slaves took part in building the industrial base of the new nation. Towards the middle of the19th century, America was …show more content…
In the North, people were becoming very anti-slavery, and as the years passed the great debate over slavery threatened to ruin the Union. Although it was the first attempt to finding a solution to the growing issues of slavery In the America's. Of course, it did not remove the many problems the union had to face. The most important part of the Missouri Compromise was the agreement that no territory to the north of Missouri could enter the Union as a slave state. It completely stopped slavery from spreading into the rest of the Louisiana Purchase. The Compromise of 1850 was an abundance of bills in Congress which was made to settle the issue of the Mexican territories. On a certain level it did postpone the Civil War by maybe twelve years. But the compromise, which had 5 major provisions, was fated to be a temporary solution. The President of California at the time wanted California admitted as a free state, and he also wanted New Mexico admitted as a territory which prohibited slavery under their territorial constitution that was created. Many people from the south didn't like this idea, claiming that admitting California would disrupt the balance between slave and free states and would possibly separate the Union. There were many slave states and free states, and the detachment over slavery would take many years, and a blood bath to