what are the causes of civil war?

Question

atleast 3 causes..
also explain how did the causes occur?( in detail)

Answer 1

Slavery played a part but really it wasn't the grand moral debate some make it out to be. Lets face the facts that while slavery was going on, America was busy moving Indians off land and working a system to pretty much kill them off. So people need to learn a great deal more about the standards of thinking back then. Nobody fought over anything for the pure purpose of freeing anybody. Really one purpose leads to the next, I doubt I will give the answer you want but here goes.

Slavery was an ace card for the North because like some people already have said here, the North did not really need the institution of slavery given it was more industrial. Northern states did import and sell slaves but for some reason that never comes up a lot. This being said, the number of representatives for a state was determined by free men. Even though a black man could not vote in the North, most states counted him none the less. This did have a small effect on the South's power in government. It was a technical move combined with really what was already a shifting government that shut the South's voice down. The North used it as a tool, and were not quick to abolish the act for the reasons of power.

States Rights were always an issue from day one of the formation of The United States of America. Why would we call ourselves the USA otherwise?. The name says it all, we are states, and we are united. This is the belief that while we are united in one central government, each state has rights and laws that don't always match to the Federal level. This is why you had slave states, and free states...just like today you have states that recognize gay marriage and those that don't. This is like 30 different people in one room agreeing on everything, it just won't happen. People disagreed on slavery, but that wasn't enough to start the war. States Rights in general..thats the key.

the idea of slavery

A state that has no use for slavery will be quick to denounce it. A state that had been using this institution for decades, well its part of the economy. So you had a situation of leverage. Slaves were not only workers, but they were used to cover debts, and were basic colateral. Slavery rooted in the minds, belief and government of America. It was easy to use slavery as an advantage.

With the ideas of states rights being taken away, We had the end product of what started to be the CSA. This came as a result of the previous debates and the election of Lincoln. Keep in mind no war had started at this point. It was legal for a state to leave simply because there were no laws against it...again its the "USA". Lincoln got heat because this was a threat to the Union as a world power, not to mention the loss of land and people.

While other states were mulling it over(leaving the Union), Fort Sumter happened. It happened because the CS government asked Lincoln to remove its presence from its newly formed country....by diplomatic means. Lincoln tried to resupply the fort as a bait. It worked, and as a result it was fired upon. Lincoln called for a huge army. The South saw the coming storm, and so the rest of the states fell into place.

From day one Lincoln did not set out to free the slaves but to fix the Union. He held slavery as a bargaining chip until he felt certain the North would stand to win the war.

The biggest reasons the war ever started was a shift in government, poor communications, and the shifty way the new Confederacy was handled in its birth.

Answer 2

Well that's a heck of a question. I'll endeavor to do my best. The first cause that comes to my mind is Slavery, and the disagreement that the Northern States and the Southern States had over it. The North didn't favor slavery, and the South depended upon it to have enough workers to be on the plantations, producing tobacco, cotton, and other cash crops. However the North also relied on Slavery because it needed the cotton and other raw materials that were produced in the South to make finished products out of to sell. Then there was the whole issue of new States coming into the union. Both North and South wanted to maintain a balance between the free and slave states, because neither wanted a majority of the other to be in the legislature. I'm pretty sure Kansas is a good example of the race to obtain a state as free or slave could be violent, and the 3/5th compromise regarding how many representatives a slave state could have in the House shows the tension between the states. Finally there is the Fugitive Slave Act, ordering all citizens to return a slave to its owner even if the slave made it to the free north. For some reason I see this as the final straw, because it imposed southern will on the northerners, but I suppose events that led directly to the South's breaking off from the Union and becoming the Confederacy may be more relevant.

Answer 3

You did not specify a particular war so I picked 3 different ones.

For the American Civil War the cause was economics. People will normally say slavery, but the root cause was economics. The south was dependent on slave labor and the North on industry that needed the south to purchase it's products. Also the South did not want to pay taxes for the slaves while in the North everyone was assessed a tax. This caused all the initial debate and anger which was then further fueled by the slavery moral debate.

Other causes of civil war are cultural differences. In the Nigerian civil war they tried to unite the country under one name but failed to consider the cultural differences and animosity among the various tribes.

Third and final possible cause:The English Civil War has many causes but the personality of Charles I must be counted as one of the major reasons. Few people could have predicted that the civil war, that started in 1642, would have ended with the public execution of Charles.

Answer 4

the north and the south had different opinions about slavery
then they split up, then there was the dispute about which states get accepted into the union and the confederacy
Abraham lincoln had decided to fight the south, reinstate the Union, and free the slaves.