Journal Prompt #1

1. Brainstorm what you know about the Civil War.  What year?  Who was president?  How did the war start?  What was the outcome?

The Civil War was one of the most bloodiest war of all times recorded in the United States.  It was a battle fought within  the States between the Union and the Confederate States.  In other words, the North v.s. the South.  This war lasted from 1861-1865 a total of 4 years.  This was was the result of 2% of the United States population's death.  Approximately 620,000 people died, which was a lot considering the time they lived in.  If that 2% was applied to our time it would have been approximately over 1 million people.  The president during the Civil War was Abraham Lincoln and he was in favor with the Union, and his Vice president Johnson, was a confederate.  The reason president Lincoln had Johnson, a confederate as vice president was because he wanted to show the country  that he wanted to keep the Union between the States.  The war started because Lincoln wanted to preserve the Union, he never mention anything about demolishing slavery, nor black rights.  The outcome of the Civil War was to reconstruct the government therefore created Civil Rights.  Later created the 13th Amendment and more that ended with slavery, by doing this, it was like nothing ever happened.  Days later after the Civil War was over and, the union won, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865.