Causes Of The Civil War

From the birth of the United States, the country was always divided into two regions, North and South. The North benefited from industry, machines, factories, and even a bit of farming in the Midwest, while the South benefited from one thing. Slaves. Slaves were first brought from Africa as indentured servants, but once the demand of labor increased, they were changed into slaves, meaning they would never earn their freedom. The debate of slavery had always been a topic in politics, however it began growing with the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Soon in 1860, the country was divided into two seperate countries, the United States of America (North) and the Confederate States of America (South). However, the question still remains, what exactly caused the Civil War?

Slavery makes people that are confident and people that think they can do anything, make them feel like they can't do anything and make them not confident.

The Civil War was caused by the economics of slavery and the political control of that system, specifically being states’ rights on the federal powers of the government, the territorial expansion of the united states that led to the division of the two sides, and the election of President Abraham Lincoln which was the final event that sent the nation to war.

The causes of the Civil War were complex and have been controversial since the country began. Some causes include; states’ rights, economics, and slavery. The most recognizable and popular cause is slavery. The freeing of the slaves was an important moral issue at the time and one of the greatest causes of the civil war. "It was only by carefully avoiding the moral issue involved in slavery that Northerners and Southerners could meet on any common ground." (Goldston, 79). The time came in which our great country would finally address the moral issue of slavery. Although there are many different causes to the American Civil War, the main cause was slavery because other causes are rooted in the issue of slavery.

The civil war started because of the uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to take away slavery from the areas that had not yet become free of slavery. Confederate states fought to keep slavery. Slavery was a large part in their society. But slavery wasn't the only reason the war began it was also because

John Brown’s Raid was a more influential cause to the civil war than the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution caused incompability between the North and the South. The North relied on wage laborers with the new machine age economy while the South relied heavily on slaves. So, the North did not need slaves for their economy and fought to free the slaves. The South fought to in order to keep their cotton production going (Causing the Civil War). However, John Brown’s Raid created a more emotional response in the country. Brown gathered followers to seize arsenal

Another political issue that revolves around the Civil War is the 3/5 compromise, or the three-fifths rule. The 3/5 compromise was put into action during the constitutional convention in 1787 in order to count the number of people for representation. Due to this, the southern states counted the slaves as 3/5 of a person instead of one whole person for each individual slave. One of the reasons this was a cause of the Civil War was because the South was not counting slaves as people, but instead as property. Another way this caused the Civil War is this effected taxes. The southern states were the states that had slaves, and therefore enraged the northern states due to the South only having to pay minimal taxes due to this comprise. Another area

The main cause of the Civil War was the debate over the expansion of slavery in the West after the Mexican American War because the North and South regions were no longer able to find a compromise between the two that fulfilled the desires of each division, causing a divide in the country. However, some may argue that the main cause of the Civil War was a struggle between the federal government and individual states over ultimate political power. After the Mexican American War, the two divisions begin to find complications in one another, after the war the Compromise of 1850 followed to fix the continuous issues over the controversy of slavery, however

This historical study will define the causes of the Civil War by understanding the divisive nature of the southern agrarian and northern industrial economies. In the Antebellum era, the South relied heavily on the production of cash crops, such as cotton and tobacco, that relied heavily on a plantation economy. Southern plantation owners also relied heavily on slave labor, which prevented more fluid labor markets from encouraging industrialization. Plantation owners did not want the advanced agricultural machinery used by northern industries, since the slave trade was highly profitable system of trade in and unto itself. In the North, the rapid advancement of industry had a greater mobility in labor markets, since wage labor replaced the slave

The American Civil War was one of the most disastrous wars fought throughout America’s history between the North the Union, and the South the Confederate. The Civil War was fought between 1861 to 1865. Even though the Civil War only lasted four short years it by far had the highest death toll claiming over 600,000 lives. In addition to the highest death toll, the Civil War caused a tremendous amount of physical damage around 3.3 billion U.S dollars. The lead up to this war from the South’s perspective was the fight to for independence while the North was fighting for a revolution. However, the build up of this war did not occur over night it took years and years of hatred to build up. Still today many individuals still

One of the events that shaped the U.S as a nation is the Civil War. The civil war lasted from 1861 to 1865. Abraham Lincoln who was president at the time and has the title of the “Great Emancipator” was very active on the whole process of the civil war up until he died. It is important to not only to question, and understand why this civil war happened but if it was inevitable or with its cost.

Generally, it is thought to be the South’s fault for causing the Civil War. Contrary to popular belief, the Civil War was mainly provoked by the North; through using the federal government to overtake the South, removing slavery which would destroy Southern economy, and creating the moral issue of slavery. The North was the primary reason for the start of a war that ripped our country apart.

The American Civil War is sometimes called the War Between the States,the War of Rebellion,or the War for Southern Independence.It began on April 12,1861,when Confederate General opened fire on Fort Summer,South Carolina,and lasted until May 26,1865,when the lasted Confederate army surrendered.The war opened wounds that have not yet completely healed more than 125 years later.

The Civil War (1861-1865) was not only a domestic clash in the U.S. history, but also a bloody war which led over 620,000 people died. It was a war about conflicts between the north and south, including slavery, economics, state rights and federal rights. It is necessary to understand history in order to learn from it, so this essay analyzes the social causes that led to the war and recognize the most significant events. The causes of the war can be analyzed from three perspectives: economy, morality and politics which are all related with slavery. In the mid-19th century, the U.S. was experiencing the industry revolution which determined the economic difference between the northern and southern regions, and the difference led to the fundamental

The Civil War started on April 12, 1861. It’s one of the most consequential and pressing times in the history of the United States. The war stopped and halted generations of slavery. The Union ( the north and south ) was already ripped up and torn apart due to the negative fixation in race relations and a number of slave confusion were taking considerably huge toll on the country’s different structures. While slavery being the most common reason for the start of the Civil War, it wasn’t the only thing that factored into the war starting, such as the difference in the Union and Confederacy economic structures, slave rights, and the abolishment of slavery. The Civil War initially started when the South ( Confederacy) seceded from the Union. The president at the time Abraham Lincoln refused to acknowledge the fact that they left but the Confederacy made it known that they had no intention on coming back as for they felt like the north ( Union) was a tyrant trying to abolish their primary source of income, slavery. As for the Union they believed what Confederacy were doing to African American were wrong which further divided the Union of the United States more. Now, for the next five years the United States would be fighting an internal war with each other.