The Civil War

The civil war

A. Identify the southern states.

·         South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana. Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee.

B. Who was the US president who proclaimed war against the South?

·         Abraham Lincoln

C. Why was the civil war fought?

·         The war was fought over secession, not over slavery. If the South had not declared its independence, Lincoln would not have launched an invasion, and there would have been no war. The only slave states that were charged with insurrection and then invaded were those that belonged to the Confederacy.

·         Moreover, there was still slavery after the war

D. When was this war fought?

·         From April 1861 to April 1865     

E. What was the outcome of this war?

·         The union won. This placed the USA in a position where it could start to modernise its economic base, A fortunate a side effect of this was that slavery was abolished several years later.

·         Even after the war was won there was still slavery.

F. How does the Civil Rights Movement relate to the novel?

·         The cautiousness of the Southern states towards the North was shown in the novel through the whites’ cautiousness of the blacks.