Jackson Perry

Jackson Perry was a politician, businessman and plantation owner who led the Southern Army partly through the American Civil War, but was killed halfway through. Perry is considered by some to have initiated the Civil War.Jackson Perry was born into a wealthy plantation-owning family in Northern Virginia, who made their earnings from their series of profitable farming companies that they owned.

At a young age Jackson began to study politics and economics in Maryland, initially interested in politics, Jackson decided he was better suited for a career in economics. At the age of 18 he purchased multiple farms, which with the help of his father, he converted into profitable crop-growing companies. Further down the road Jackson purchased a company in Connecticut that with the help of slave labor mass-produced cotton and wool accessories. This was his best investment, soon transforming him into a very wealthy man.

Jackson like many other southerners was envious of the North's economic, industrial and educational success. He believed that everybody should have the advantages that the North had, especially education; so Jackson invested much of his newfound wealth into opening schools in the South. Soon afterwards Jackson was a well-known and respected man in the South. Following this, tension between the North and the South continued to increase.

Jackson, like some other Southerners at the time, began giving speeches and advising boycotting the North. Soon enough large profitable industries and companies refused to sell or conduct any trades with Northerners. In turn, the North nearly completely stopped selling goods to the South, which made them more financially unstable.

Perry motivated and influenced his followers to incite violence in the North, and soon there were scrimmages between Northerners and Southerners frequently. After Perry refused to use his power to advocate for the banning of slavery, and after he led multiple deadly attacks on Northern cities such as Baltimore and Philadelphia, the North declared war on the South.

Perry immediately assimilated the role of commander of the Southern Army.