The civil war was a war caused by slavery. Slaves were people from Africa, India, China, etc. to work for plantation owners in the south. A plantation is a large farm with cotton fields on them were the slaves worked. The north did not approve of slavery because 1. they did not have plantations, and 2. they just didn't like it! The north elected Abraham Lincoln as their president and the south chose Jefferson Davis. Abraham was what is called an abolitionist. An abolitionist is a person against slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist and she wrote a book called Uncle Tom's cabin which made the north feel even worse about slavery. They felt so bad they told Lincoln and he created the Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation was like a law that said slaves in the south could be free. The confederacy (south) got so mad they bombed Fort Sumter. The first shot was on April 12, 1860 and it started the war.

 

                                                                                                                     Written by Camille Ryan

                                                                                                                      Illustrated by Destinee D.