Civil War. Topics included in PDF.

Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Confederacy Loss of the Civil War One of the events that shaped what is now the United States of America is the Civil War of 1861-1865. When Abraham Lincoln was elected as president in 1860, divisions emerged between North and South majorly due to differences between states that were free and the slaveholding states about the jurisdiction of the national government to outlaw slavery in some of the regions that had not become states. Abraham Lincoln won the election on a pledge to block slavery out of the territories. In the South, seven states seceded to form a new country which was referred to as the Confederate States of America. The Lincoln administration refused to acknowledge and recognize this secession, on the opinion that it would harm the reputation of democracy and dishonor it. They alleged that it would lead to a disastrous precedent that would break up the country into small squabbling nations. The federal garrison at Fort Sumter, Charleston Bay was attacked by the Confederate army in 1861. They demanded that it lower the American flag and surrender. This event triggered the beginning of the war. "Why did the Confederacy lose?" This question assumes that the Confederacy lost the war on their own account and also assumes that the Confederacy could have actually won it. A simplistic answer to this question is that the Union won the war. It can be said that the Confederacy lost because the military strength in numbers and economic might of the Union outmuscled the Confederacy on every front. The Confederacy was considerably weaker in essentials of war to win against the determined Union. The North had a larger population