The Confederate Flag affected the civil war because it caused the disagreements that lead to the civil war and several outbreaks of different groups such as the Klu Klux Klan after the war causing many deaths in the African American community, different opinions on slavery throughout the US, and a country divided between confederate and non-confederate states also known as slave bearing states and states that weren't slave bearing states.
The Civil War
The civil war was a fight for the independence of our country from the confederate states of America and was started in , because Abraham Lincoln who was the president at the time wanted to separate people from the confederate states of America and the two sides of the war were the confederate side and the non-confederate US side. It started on April 12th 1861 when the confederates bombed the US soldiers at Fort Sumter, where two battles took place. The civil war basically started because of the political differences and opinions of the free and slave states, also known as the US and confederate sides of the war and had to go to battle to decide whether the new states that had not been named yet would be slave bearing territories. There were 2.128,948 US soldiers and 1,082,119 Confederate Soldiers, so the confederate soldiers were much outnumbered. 620,000 soldiers were killed in total in the Civil War. Each side had to have their own flag or symbol to represent them and that was how the confederate flag was created by William T. Thompson in 1861.
The Confederate FlagThe confederate flag was known as a symbol of racism and segregation or being against civil rights and was created during the civil war to represent the confederate side in the war. It went through many different stages during the civil war, there were three versions to be exact and has been taken down at national monuments all over the US and is considered an offensive symbol to all people of African American descent.
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The Confederate States/UnionThe confederate states and “union” were created when Abraham Lincoln was elected president and decided that the new states would not be slave bearing states. Seven southern states including South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, etc., which were slave states in the US at the time, this made up “the union. These states retaliated, because the south was where most of slave business/trade took place. Farmers in the south needed slaves to run their plantations or farms and the south was where some of the biggest crops in the US (that were needed here and traded to other countries) were grown in the south, giving them something to fight for and creating a controversy on whether it was more important to keep the trade business in the south alive and help farmers and our government save more money or saving African American lives from slavery and slave trade.
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