Does anyone know.......?

Question

I'm in a social study group here in college and this month I'm supposed to find out how many people know:

Why was the Civil war started?

Even if you don't think you know go ahead and answer, please.

Oh and as a another question, why doesn't Yahoo! have a history questions section?

Well, none of these are the true answer. Things that helped and spurred , but not the main and ultimite reason.

Ok, here's the real answer:

In the senate both sides had an even amount of senators, it was somewhere around 30 for for the south and for the north. Iowa and Kansas were about to be created, and were going to join the north. So it would become something like 30 south - 33 north. So the north would make all the laws. So if they made a law alike "The south must sell all it's cotton for free" they'd have too. Though that's not likely, the north was going to make the south lower it's prices. Making them "slaves" (In a sense) and very poor.

That's it! Hope you read again and see this, only wanted to educate.

Answer 1

All civil wars begin because somebody questions the right of those in authority to impose their views on the general population. In general,winner takes it all and those who lose get the blame.Usually however there are a number of serious flaws in the arguments of both sides.If that were not the case,issues would be solved by democratic means at the ballot box.

Answer 2

Last first: Yahoo has history where it should be under Art and Humanities, it isn't a Social Science. Now for the hard one: The tension between North and South built for a long time over many issues, slavery being one of the most major issues. Other issues included states' rights -which can't work to hold together a nation, economics had a major role (as it does in all wars-after all what is a major concession after every war--the taking of land or reparations to be paid. Economically the North towered over the South, yet more millionaires per capita lived in the South. Both sides depended on each other for business causing resentment. That's all I can think of at 6:25 A.M. Still yawning, no coffee, resentment is building.... Hey, you a Yankee?

Answer 3

What you site is incorrect because, if it was true there would have been many Civil wars every time congress changed political power balance before and since.

One must look at history in a broad context. What happened long before the civil War? What was the prevailing thought that their experience had brought to them? and why? what were the results? etc.

1. The British had just freed all the slaves in the Empire 30 years before. They were in active military conflict around the globe trying to enforcing it.
2 The Republicans were an activist group pushing to free the slaves in America. This was a predominately Religious, Christian movement.
3. The Democrats were against the freeing of slaves because of economics and political power. Even after the war they enforced their political power with their terrorist wing the KKK. Forming the "Solid South" voting block that lasted 100 years. Freed slaves voted republican so the black vote had to be suppressed and stopped. 1964 brought the civil rights amendment to stop the suppression.
4. The first Gay President was in power, James Buchanan and his boy friend, AKA "the Nancy Boys". Buchanan's sister became the first "First Lady".
Through his indecision, compromise, and inability to act he allowed the the Civil War to start. Lincoln had not even come to power but the Republician message was clear..
5.The States Rights that people marched off to protect were in reality the States right "to own slaves" that's what the Missouri Compromise etc. was all about that lead up to it.
6. Lincoln believed that, Not until the blood of the task masters whip was redeemed would God end the war and the slaves be freed. He had to walk a fine line politically to win the war and he believed that God had something Great in store for the "United" States of America. But first God wanted the slaves free.
Read his second Inaugural Address, it is very short. He states it.

To say the war wasn`t about the slaves is to ignore the times. Your Social studies teacher is stupid, and the book your class is reading is a politically correct piece of crap.

Answer 4

The Civil War was about cheap labor in farming and manufacturing of clothes, that had a VERY low profit margine. The Confederate TROOPS began the war on an Island off the shore of Charleston, S.C., where the Federal Government had a weapons stash. The War lasted some 4 years, a LONG time, because, The South was DEFENDING IT'S Sovereignty as a Nation, The Confederate States of America, and the NORTH, had to travel a LONG way to WAR!! Never since have more Americans died in war, than since the Civil War!
I just learned RECENTLY, like YESTERDAY from the History Channel's run on the President's, that Abraham Lincoln was a LITTLE KNOWN politician, when he was ANGERRED DEEPLY by the Kansas-Nebraska Act, that allowed THOSE states to trade slaves. It was because of this Act, Lincoln became interested in forming the Republican Party, and becoming President to free slaves!! BECAUSE of THIS VERY act, I think of the Republican Party as the GRANDEST Old Party!

Answer 5

Freeing slaves was just the tip of the iceberg that created the rift between the North and the South. Even today, we see distinct fundamental differences in the way people think about how we should live our lives and how government should play a role in our lives. Take for instance foreign policy (i.e. the war in Iraq, handling countries like Iran and North Korea) or the segregation of church and state or the right to bear arms. The Civil War began because America was a big country and two regions became divided over various issues, particularly how to live out their lives. Indeed, the South wanted to cede from the Union.

Answer 6

The main focus was on slavery as the reason the Civil War started...but it had a much deeper and far ranging reason.

When the country began...the states were separate lil entities with their own agendas etc.Slavery was largely ignored when the Constitution was written..it was left for a later generation to solve.

The basis for the Civil War was the issue of states rights..ie the right of a state to make its own laws..conduct its own affairs etc.Slavery was an important part of Southern life and one they deemed right and just and an important part of the agricultural society that the South was.Slavery was important mainly as an economic tool.

The war was fought over States Rights...with slavery as a secondary reason.The South maintained their right to own slaves as a States Right....The North said all states were under the federal umbrella...and hence slavery was not lawful.Even people in the South knew slavery was wrong.It just got ignored and accepted.

So,in a nutshell,the Civil War was an economic fight...and a fight over who controls a state.Slavery became a rallying point for North and South alike...but the real issue was deeper than that.

And the Civil war may have ended slavery...but it divided the races in the process.Strange in a way when you consider slavery was outlawed but racism and predjudice was condoned.
I think that war raised more issues than it solved.

Answer 7

Well, your answer is not quite right either. It is true that one of first signs of trouble was in the governmental structure of the Kansas annex, but this was just one factor and their were many before the Kansas annex. The northern states had long dictated trade routing terms to the South and the South resented their power over them. Slavery was an issue, but not over human rights as much as labor rights. The north found slavery did not expand the economy for the masses and abolished it. The south, still needed slavery to compete economically. I could go on and on over little reasons why the civil war happened, WWI, WW II and why WW III is about a week a way from starting, but I have a job and I must go to work now. Just remember, their is never just one reason that nations/ people go to war, it is more like a 1001 little reasons why.

Answer 8

Shrewd business from the northern states. It's not a coincidence that the federal government began circulating $300 million in United States Notes with the Legal Tender Act of 1862. Gold Standard notes did not arrive until after the Civil War. Sure there were many factors, but look at the economics of the time and the labor sitiuation (not just in the South) and consider who benefited the most.

Answer 9

The civil war was an Abel and Cain redo. The industrial North was the Cain. It was using its new found might to be dictaorial over the farmer boy South. Slavery was a side issue that gave the South an evil personality for the more righteous ultra-christian North an excuse to be bad *** enough to go to war.
In the end Abel got killed.

Answer 10

For better or for worse, the confederacy needed physical manpower to maintain their economy, which was predominantly agriculture (cotton and tobacco). They didn't have the means to pay to harvest (hence, slaves). The north was primarily industrial (that's why the north would have won even if the war had dragged on for whatever many more years; the north would have eventually out-industrialized the south). Pretty much the same way the Allies defeated the Axis powers in ww2; hell, if Germany and Japan had the means to match us tank for tank, airplane for airplane, bullet for bullet, or man for man, then the Axis would have given the Allies a VERY different scenario. We probably would have croaked at Normandy. (Why do you think we nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki??? The Land of the Rising Sun would have slaughtered us on their home turf.