Ken Burnʼs Civil War

The movie of Ken Burn's traced the course of the U.S. civil war in 1861 -1865. It was from the abolitionist to the death of the greatest president the United States has ever had, Abraham Lincoln. It also had a bit of the beginning reconstructions. The episode we've watched in class examines the major causes of the American civil war and the leading people on both sides.

Slavery is looked at and it was part of the cause of war but not the actual cause. The abolitionist John Brown's attack on a southern armory at Harper's Ferry speeded things up?

The main cause of the war was the key issue of the states rights and whether or not they could vote to leave the American Union. The first major battle at Manassas was a mortifying defeat for the much stronger Northerners.