Civil War Causes

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.

In 1861, a Civil War broke out in the United States when the South declared their independence from the Union. There is a great amount of reasons that people can argue how the Civil War was started. However, what most people don’t understand, is that most of the events leading up to the Civil War were related to slavery. Slavery was the core of the North and South’s conflict, which led to a very vicious feud.

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.

In this paper we would analyze the causes of the Civil War and advocate the thesis that slavery was the cause of the Civil War.

Case, John Brown 's Raid, and the passage of the fugitive slave act that held

Subsequently after the electon of Abraham Lincoln the south were outraged because they knew that Abraham Lincoln would not put up with the non-sense of slavery ("Causes Of The Civil War." History Net Where History Comes Alive World US History Online. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan. 2016.) The south knw that they had to do something about Lincoln, but they were collectivly unsure of what to do. There would be many assassination attemps on Lincoln and many of them would fail. One, however did not fail as Lincoln was shot in the back of the head at Ford's Theater, by a man named John Wilkes Booth. Luckily for the people of America, this was after slavery was banned. As the south knew that banning slavery would be Lincolns plan, this was another big reason as to why they would engage in war with the north. ("Causes Of The Civil War." History Net Where History Comes Alive World US History Online. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan. 2016.) After Lincoln's election, the south had wanted nohthing to do with a counrty ran by Lincoln, especially with the plans he had in store. All the south had to do to light the spark that would soon become war was to

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.

Slavery is the main cause of the Civil War with other contributing factors. The north had already abolished slavery, but it was still present in the south. The start of the war was created by the north having abolishment of slavery and the south still using slaves. The concepts of the Constitution were based on the principles of freedom and liberty that all men were created equal.  The American revolutionaries had fought for independence, they had forgotten to think about

Many people can argue that the main cause of the Civil War was the Kansas-Nebraska Act, The Missouri Compromise, or even the Compromise of 1850. There are an abundant amount of reasons that people can argue how the Civil War was started. What most people don’t understand, that most of the events leading up to the Civil War that people debate on, were related to slavery. Slavery is the practice of, or a system based on, using the enforced labor of other people (in this case the “other people” were African-Americans). At the time of the Civil War, the Abolitionists (the people that wanted to end slavery most were in the north) had many conflicts with the South (who preferred slavery). All of these conflicts, such as the Border War and John Brown’s Raid, made the North and the South have violent attitudes toward each other. And then the “straw that broke the camel’s back” effect came into place, and the North and the South eventually declared war against each other. The main cause of the Civil War was slavery as shown by the Border War, John Brown’s Raid, and the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher.

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

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

the civil was caused by different opinions on slavery. Abraham lincon was elected presdent 1860. Presdent lincon oposed slavery and wanted to put a end to it, Lincon was a republican, Robert e lee was the genral of of the confedert army. From june 1862 and led the army until the end he surrendered lee surrendered the grant of the Apottamax to the north on april 9 1865. General ulysses s grant was the genral of the union army, Eventualy became the presdent of the united states wiluim shermans plan was to destroy the southern railroads by burning them. And there economy the southern needed slaves to support there enconmy. Of cotton picking the northern states wanted to free the slaves as the south disagreeded

In 1860, the world 's greatest nation was locked in Civil War. The war divided the country between the North and South. There were many factors that caused this war, but the main ones were the different interpretations of the Constitution by the North and South, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the arrival of

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.