By Craig Symonds Overview In his classic “History of the Peloponnesian War,” Thucydides wrote that the cause of the 20-year conflict between Athens and Sparta was “the growth of Athenian power and the fear this caused in Sparta.” In much the same way, it can fairly be said that the cause of the Civil War was the growth of the North’s power — both economic and political — and the fear this bred in the Southern states. Though a number of issues divided North from South in the decades before the war, the issue that proved both paramount and insoluble was slavery — in particular, the issue of allowing slavery to expand into territories in the West. Southerners were convinced that without new Western lands to employ the growing population of slaves, the market value of the slaves would decline while the cost of sustaining them remained, thereby threatening the viability of the institution itself. Having invested so much, psychologically as well as financially, in the “peculiar institution,” the Southern planter class that dominated Southern governance decided that if the growth of slavery were halted, Lincoln Elected When on a platform pledged to halt the expansion of slavery (though not slavery itself), on Dec. Six other states soon followed, and by the time Mr. The Secret Of Kells Soundtrack Suicide on this page. Lincoln took the oath of office as president on March 4, 1861, those seven states had formed themselves into a Confederacy and. The four-year war that ensued constituted a political, social and even cultural watershed that virtually remade the nation, strengthening the national government at the expense of the states and encouraging the creation of national markets and transportation systems. Bagaimana Cara Men Lagu Di Laptop.

Despite the loss of life (estimated at 620,000 dead, as many as in all of America’s other wars combined) and the physical destruction that took place during the war (especially in the Southern states), the Civil War not only ended slavery (though not racial injustice), but it also spawned the conditions that made America a world power. The Civil War was also the nation’s first “modern” war in that it witnessed the emergence of a variety of new military technologies. The most prominent (and the most deadly) of these was the widespread use of the, which increased the range of shoulder arms to nearly 800 yards from about 80 yards. This technology made frontal assaults remarkably dangerous and contributed to the high number of casualties. In addition, the Civil War saw the first general use of and the railroad, the ironclad warship and the submarine, and even hot air balloons for observation. Canon Vixia Hf10 Usb Driver there.