Why Was The South Seceded To The Civil War

A war being fought from 1861 to 1865. This war was to determine Confederacy independence or the existence of the Union. The south, which was the Confederacy, declared secession from America and claimed thirteen states that agreed with slavery. The other states in the North, which was the Union, remained loyal and wanted to end slavery. This whole civil war was based around slavery. The biggest reason why the South receded was because Abraham Lincoln was elected president and didn’t want slavery in the states. So the South refused and created a new nation, which were the confederacy states. The people in the North did not want to accept the rightfulness of secession. They were scared that it would dishonor equality and create a bad example that would

Thousands of men would leave their wife’s and children behind to go to war. Some women would also go to war being nurses or spies. A lot of families also worked very hard just to survive while their husbands were off to war. The women had to find jobs or work the farm to support the family. Life at home for children was also very rough. Many of the children that were not eighteen years old would still join the army as drummer boys or bugle boys. The young children also helped around the camps by doing chores. The children that were eighteen became soldiers on the battlefields. Slaves during the civil war did anything they were told to do. Most of them worked in the fields all day from sunrise to sunset. Their only days off were on Sundays and holidays. There diet supplied by the slave owners was also very poor. They were not given any meat or fish. The slaves were also not given any good clothes to work in. It was also very hard to create a family because of the living conditions. They lived in huts and small shelters and slept on the dirt floors. Along with the food and living conditions, their health was very poor because they were not given good