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Question: The morality of the civil war!?
okay, so I need to write a 5 paragraph essay about whether or not i think the civil war was morally right even though war is morally wrong!.
I think that I think that it is acceptable because it was like based on slavery, which was morally wrong!.!. It the North fought to stop it!.!.
So, besides intro and conclusion, what should my 3 body paragraph reasons be about!.!.
It can be your opinion too, like if you think that it wasn't morally right!.
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Ok, Listen up folks Histrionics 101 is in session!.
If you read a High School textbook in "The South" the War Between The States was fought over "State's Sovereignty Rights"!.
If you read a High School textbook in "The North and West" the Civil War was fought over Slavery, and Economics!.
Yes, "The South" did not trust Lincoln, However, He NEVER spoke against slavery in any speech!. Rumors though were running wild that he wanted to abolish it!.
The economics went like this: a man in the south would sell cotton at 5 cents a pound, then goes to the general store and buys cotton shirts made in the north at $8 a shirt!. And It only took about 15 pounds of cotton to make the shirt!.
Slavery, Only 10% of the southerner owned slaves, but it was status symbol!. This issue had been a thorn in the nation's side since the the first congress in 1776!.
It took 100 years for the Morality of slavery to come to a head!. That was also because of all the "Saved" souls that were slaves!. Slavery had been deemed unconstitutional in most Northern states since the 1790's!.
The Moral Reasoning the north had at the beginning of the war was "to preserve the Union"!. The South was to "preserve states rights"!. Slavery only became an issue over a Year after to war had started!.
John Brown said something like this: "The only way this great nation will clean itself of the sin of slavery is with blood!."
And It did, sorrowfully!.
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it wasn't exactly based on slavery, it was based on economics, all the rich southern slave owners had free labor which the north didn't, and in the end it wasnt really about slavery, so in fact you can say both sides were morally wrong, it was to determine who had more power, state governments or the federal government and we still feel the effects of itWww@QuestionHome@Com
The South left because they wanted to keep slavery and their way of life!. They were sure that the North would make them stop eventually!. They did not trust Abraham Lincoln!.
However the North fought the war because the South attacked Fort Sumpter and fired on Americans!.
I don't think there was any peaceful solution!. They tried with the Compromise of 1850!. They tried with the Compromise of 1820!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Its interesting as to how many times questions on this subject continue to appear here in Yahoo/Answers!. One hundred and forty three years after the end of this war and it is yet the cause of much discussion and lots of misunderstandings!.
The basis of the question “even though war is morally wrong” is a false premise!. War is always a terrible act but there are times when war is necessary and moral!. For example, for a nation which supports individual freedoms to not fight the attacking nation which is a dictatorship over the individual is immoral and to fight is moral!.
Further, to make the assertion that the civil war was moral because the North fought slavery is also a false concept!. Consider, if slavery was such a terrible thing in the eyes of the North that they didn’t want to be associated with it, then, when the Southern States seceded the Union no longer had a problem with slavery!.
Of course that isn’t what upset the North, rather, it was the fact the with the eleven Southern States seceding the North was losing a very large revenue in taxes and product support for Northern factories!.
What people (today) seem to have so conveniently forgotten is that secession was a legal act!. In addition, the beginning of this war didn’t take place on Northern soil but deep in the State of North Carolina!. The first act of the war occurred subsequently to the Union administrations of both President Buchanan and President Lincoln being informed that to attempt a re-supply of Fort Sumter would be considered an act of war since that fort was on the soil of South Carolina!. At the same time the North was informed by General Winfield Scott that it would take 20,000 Union troops to re-supply Fort Sumter and to maintain it!. Of course the North went ahead and ‘invaded’ South Carolina in a failed attempt to re-supply the fort and this caused the first shots of the war as South Carolina fired on the supply ship!. An act that was forced by the North!.
The firing on Fort Sumter occurred when its commander agree to leave the Fort and then in the middle of the night return all of his forces and this breaking of his word caused the firing on the Fort!.
The morality of the initiation of the Civil War is that the Confederacy fought an invading army which was invading its country!.
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