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What did southern states begin to do prior to the start of the civil war?

They seceded from the Union and set up an independent federation of States: the Confederacy.


What war begin in 1861?

The American Civil War (or the War Between the States).


Which states in the US were slave states?

Slavery began in all the colonies almost as soon as people began to settle the country. At first, it was in every colony and was used to meet a labor shortage. The first 20 Africans were sold to settlers in Virginia as early as 1619. White indentured servants were more numerous in the English mainland colonies, but after 1680 when the flow of indentured servants began to slow, more and more slaves begin to be brought into the colonies. By the middle of the eighteenth century slavery existed in all 13 colonies and formed the heart of the agricultural labor system in the southern colonies. In the years following the American Revolution slavery became stronger in the south and with the invention of the cotton gin, slavery really grew in the southern states. By the time of the civil war there were about 4 million slaves in these states. Between 1774 and 1804 all the northern states supposedly abolished slavery. In some northern states emancipation was immediate, but more often it was gradual, and slavery in the North actually existed right up to, and into the US Civil War. They were legally freed after the passage of the Emancipation act.


When and where did the civil war begin and end?

The American Civil War began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina. It ended on April 9, 1865, when General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. The war was primarily fought across various states in the Southern and Northern United States.


How did the civil war not begin as a war against slavery?

The American Civil War was an internal conflict fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865. The Union faced secessionists in eleven Southern states grouped together as the Confederate States of America. The Union won the war, which remains the bloodiest in U.S. history.

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Why did the cilvil war begin?

The American Civil War, or as it is properly known as the War Between the States, was caused by the industiral northern states placing high tariffs on southern agricultural goods such as cotton. The southern states resented this action. Slavery was also an issue even though some northern states held slaves. The two sections of our country could not come to an agreement on either issue and war ensued.


What country did the Renaissance begin?

The Renaissance began in Northern Southern London in the late 1500


Where did the Northern Renaissance begin?

== The Southern Renaissance, or Italian Renaissance, began in Florence, in the northern part if Italy. The Northern Renaissance began somewhere in Northern parts like Germany.


Do the days begin to get longer after December 21?

In the northern hemisphere they do, but in the southern hemisphere, they start to get shorter.


Where does the caribBean sea begin?

from the most southern coast of Florida to the northern coast of South America


Which us states in the northern west begin with the letter a?

Alabama, Alaska, Arizona and Arkansas are the U.S. states that begin with the letter A. Alaska is in the northwest.


When did rodeos begin?

1820s and 1830s in the western United States and northern Mexico


What did Lincoln's election to the presidency help motivate the Southern states to do?

Begin the process of secession


How many states begin with the letter M in uk?

The United Kingdom includes England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. There are no states in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.


Why did the southern states begin to talk more about secession after Kansas became a state?

because it was cool


In what administration did the southern states begin to secede?

once Lincoln gave Douglas a dirty sanchez


What did southern states begin to do prior to the start of the civil war?

They seceded from the Union and set up an independent federation of States: the Confederacy.