When was the first civil war in the south (USA) and what was it's cause?

Question

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Answer 1

The Revolutionary War. British subjects fighting each others.

Answer 2

The south was going to build cotton mills and not send the cotton north to be processed. This would have caused a depression in the north. Cotton was a BIG business then. In trying to discourage this the south started to stand up for the rights of the individual states to govern themselves on some issues. They stood for states rights. All went well until someone fired that shot at Fort Sumpter in 1861 and the battle was on. The southern states had decided to become their own country. Lincoln could not let that happen. As slaves tended to be loyal for the most part they kept the ole' plantation going and grew food for the troops of the south. That is why in 1863 Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves to cause unrest and disention among the slaves and break the back of the south. There were slaves working in the White House at that time but no in most of the northern states because it was industrial for the most part.

Answer 3

Not really Mythology and Folklore but I will try anyway.

The Tuscarora War 1711-1715 fought in North Carolina.

In 1710, a group of Germans and Swiss established a settlement on the Neuse River in an ancestral area of the Tuscarora people. New Bern rapidly became a prosperous community, but the natives became enraged by encroachment on their lands as well as frequent unfair trading practices.

On September 22, 1711, the Tuscarora under Chief Hancock attacked New Bern and other settlements in northern Carolina. Hundreds of settlers were killed and their homes and crops destroyed. It was not until 1713 that the settlers regained control, when Captain James Moore, supplemented by Yamasee warriors, defeated the Tuscarora at their village of Neoheroka.

Some of the captured Tuscarora were sold into slavery to help defray war costs, while the remainder was forced out of Carolina.

Eventually the Tuscarora ended up in New York and later became the sixth nation in the Iroquois Confederation.

Answer 4

1860's the south wanted to seceed (i know I spelled that wrong) from the union. The slavery issue was only one of many. The north went to war to keep them in the union and the south to be allowed to leave.
Damn i probably should have read the other answers before i answered...

Answer 5

terry is correct. it was not over slavery. the south wanted to separate from the northern US and the north told them they couldn't. I am not sure of the year either. but if you think Terry and I are wrong, read a history book. Although history books have been edited for what the government wants us to know, and usually only part truth. just like the news today!

Answer 6

What do you mean, "the first civil war in the south"? What we commonly call the Civil War,or the War Between the States, was between the North and the South. It wasn't "in the South". Am I missing something here?

BTW please spell "its" correctly. "It's" means "it is". "Its" is the proper possessive of "it" - no apostrophe. Seriously. Look it up if you don't believe me.

Answer 7

I can't tell you the year, but it was the war of Northern Aggression. The South wanted to secede from the North.

Answer 8

are you looking for someone to argue that the revolutionary war was the first civil war fought in the south?

Answer 9

1830 - 42.

The "removal" measures were the pivot on which continental events turned. They came to a head with the death of Nat Turner.

Answer 10

I think 1820 I could be wrong.And the cause I think was slavery or about the rights of the people.