Help Please on the Civil War.?

Okay, so i have to do an essay on how the election of Abe Lincoln affected the civil war. what is a good thesis sentence for this essay? i need a lot of help on introducing my event like what it was and what i am going to write about. furthermore, if you like to help people.... i need to describe the tension between the US and what was about to happen. What slavery, economics, and sectionalism did in creating this tension.... HELP !!!!!!!!!
Help Please on the Civil War.?
Sorry, but this is what your teacher is for. Not for yahoo answers.
Help Please on the Civil War.?
it ended along time ago wake up and smell the freeing of the slaves
Reply:no cheating
Reply:I can give you a hint!Study,Study,Study!!!
Reply:i see nobody else is any help. I hate when people do that. Now, I wont give you a thesis strait out because thats your job; but i will help.





Now, you know, the south succeeded (broke away) from the nation because they didnt want an anti-slavery president. But the first part of the war, until the Emancipation Proclomation





(the freeing of the slaves in the south - also the first act towards hope for no slavery. Lincoln did this to encourage the southern slaves to run away and want to work for the north, and also to change focus of the war which I will tell you about here:)





The south broke away because of the anti-slavery president but the war started because the north thought it was illegal to break away and the south said, %26quot;well we dont have to listen to those rules because we%26#039;re a new country!%26quot; and then when the Emacipation Proclomation came out it changed the point of the war from breaking away to slavery.





I hope I helped some! Good Luck!
Reply:I%26#039;m good in history but not in English so for the thesis sentence i can%26#039;t help but the Civil War was started due to high export tariffs on southern cotton. This is the main reason the south separated itself from the union of the United States. Slavery was not a factor until Gettysburg when Lincoln announced the end of slavery. This was his justification for the war. The sad thing was that Lincoln and General Grant offered a truse with the south which granted them an additional 20years of slavery if they would surrender. That is one thing they don%26#039;t teach you in the history books. A good book to check out is THE REAL LINCOLN by Thomas Delorenzo. It puts a lot of Lincoln%26#039;s thoughts and acts of the war into a good summary. But the south%26#039;s reason for leaving the union was for unfair taxes and teriffs. Funny thing is, that was what the Revolutionary War was fought over just a little less than 100 years earlier.
Reply:Starting point. The situation before the start of war. Tensions between North and South were alreay bordering on war even before the election. The South felt its rights were being increasingly compromised by the North, with its larger share of votes in congress. Slavery was of course one of the major issues, with decades of attempts at working out compromises satisfying neither side. After %26quot;Bloody Kansas%26quot; and the execution of John Brown, both sides had symbols to rally around. Economically the South was being choked by the protectionist tariffs of the North. Both issues were economic in nature; point out how money was the underlying cause. The South was much more agrarian, compared to the North, and differences in lifestyle played a part.


The election of Lincoln was looked at by the south as making war inevitable, because Lincoln was a Republican, a party that had already made its anti-slavery position clear. The southern states felt that he would not be willing to compromise,and would use the North%26#039;s dominance in congress to force through more anti-south laws. It%26#039;s arguable that the election of anyone other than a rabidly pro-slavery candidate would have still had the same result. As noted before, tensions had been simmering for decades and both sides were growing increasingly reluctant to find a compromise.


When South Carolina seceeded, the movement of troops into Fort Sumpter by the Union triggered the near-hysteria that had been building up,. Percieved as an act of war, South Carolina acted by opening fire, removing the last chance for negotiation. Ironically Lincoln had no control over this event, and with the northern states screaming for revenge and retaliation, and with his own desire to hold the Union together, the war was on. Both sides began the war believing that their own rightous causes and superior soldiers would make the war a short one. Both sides were wrong.
Reply:Don%26#039;t listen to these %26quot;Lincoln freed the slaves%26quot; people. Lincoln stated many many times he had no desire to abolish slavery, and he would be considered a white supremacist today (with his comments about the inferiority of African-Americans). The Civil War began because the south felt that the North was taking an unfair amount of tax revenue, based on how they were represented, and how funds were being spent. The north used money for many bridge-to-nowhere %26quot;public works%26quot; projects, and they sought to control tariffs. The root of the Civil war was not slavery, but states rights and economic issues.