Civil War

"Civil War" lyrics

What do you know about the Civil War?
What did Americans fight each other for?
Who was wrong and who was right?
When the North and the South were about to fight.

Can you imagine being taken from your home
And sailed to a place that you've never known
Forced to work hard on a farm all day
Backbreaking work without any pay

Freedom fighters called Abolitionists
Eventually helped put an end to this
Do you know what we're talking about?
SLAVERY

He became the President in 1860
His Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery
Southern states did not agree
So they tried to start their own country

It was difficult to keep the country as one
He was finally killed by an assassin's gun
Who was the president during the war?
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

What do you know about the Civil War?
What did Americans fight each other for?
Who was wrong and who was right?
When the North and the South were armed to fight.

To make lots of money they would farm lots of land
But the work took the effort of the human hand
Before the cotton gin they relied on slavery
It was the economic muscle of the Confederacy

Acres of tobacco and the cotton plant
Would fall under attack of Ulysses S. Grant
What part of the country are we talking about?
THE SOUTHERN STATES

A farm is much different than a factory
A man with a machine can do the work of twenty
With the progress of industry on its side
This part of the country began to thrive

Blocking supplies to the rebels from the sea
The Yanks beat the army of General Robert E. Lee
What part of the country are we talking about?
THE NORTHERN STATES

Civil War (It lasted 4 years)
Never more (620,000 dead)
Civil War

President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was delivered to dedicate a national cemetery, but its underlying message was intended to get people to quit fighting and come together as one nation.

Soon after the Civil War, the country started its "Reconstruction Period," which was the time in which the states started working together again as a single nation.