Civil War Dbq Essay

The civil war was fought in the United States against the north and the south and lasted four years from 1861 to 1865. Prior to the civil war the United States was broken into slave(South) and free(North) states. The north’s economy was based on manufacturing and industries, whilst the south’s economy was dependent on a cash crop; cotton in which the south wanted to not pay workers to pick the cotton so slaves were used in doing so. Given that most people believed that the civil war was caused by the state’s not getting the rights they needed and by the election of Lincoln who wanted to abolish slavery. Slavery was one of the main reasons for the civil war as it kept on feeding into it. This is for the fact that it was morally wrong, they were

We can view this being done in a photograph of plantation workers, in Georgia, 1860 [Document A] This photograph shows what seems to be a family of slaves including many children with possibly their parents all working in a field of cotton. The audience that this photograph is for those who would sympathize for slavery. This photograph is showing how the plantation owners wouldn’t care about the age of the slave as long as they were working and they didn’t have to pay them. We can also see on the map of the South East of America [Document C] it shows us the relationship between the rise in the production of cotton and the rise of slaves in the south. It is shown to give people more of an understanding of this map. This relationship shows that in the four decades from 1820 to 1860, the economy of the south had gotten to the point where they could have more cotton being produced as more slaves were

We can see how sectionalized America had become in the election of 1860 [Document G] this map of electoral votes is quite noticeably divided almost completely in half. This electoral map allows us to easily view the difference in who was voted in the regions. The north and new states such as California and Oregon voted for Lincoln who viewed slavery as being unjust, whilst the south voted for Breckenridge who was someone that viewed slavery as being a political matter and wanted to leave it to the states to decide on whether to have slavery or not to. In a writing from Senator Albert Brown [Document D] named A Warning Speech he mentions how the north; in his view, has been talking bad about the South and how they might as well secede instead of being emancipated from the states. The people that Albert writes for are southerners as a southern who most likely also owns slaves. This writing shows how the south felt they were being treated by the north and viewed as being in their eyes