North and South fought the Civil War for some reason, which reasons are different and which are same?

Answer 1

Conrad...listen closely...
England was still pissed after the revolutionary war and they vowed to support the south provided they would have economic allegiances. Lincoln had to free the slaves in order to preserve the union...remember there were freed slaves in the north and the population of the slaves in the south represented approx. 35%-40% of the total population of the southern states. Simple mathematics...Lincoln said that if he could preserve the union without freeing the slaves he would.
If it were not for the Russians setting up a blockade against England the South would have won the war...
There are NO moral imperatives for war...only money...

Answer 2

The North and South both had different ideas on government. The South believed that individual states should have the right to govern themselves without intereference from the federal government. The North believed that the Constitution gave the federal government exclusive right to govern all states.
That was, and is, the root of the caue for the civil war. When the Northern delegations wanted to outlaw slavery, the Southern onse did not. The South had little chance at the industrialization that the North enjoyed. The agrarian nature of industry in the south gave them the impetus to perpetuate slavery. They used the constitution, which unfortunately included slavery, as thier legal stand. At the Constitutional Convention there were arguments over slavery. Representatives of the Northern states claimed that if the Southern slaves were mere property, then they should not be counted toward voting representation in Congress. Southerners, placed in the difficult position of trying to argue, at least in this case, that the slaves were human beings, eventually came to accept the three-fifths compromise, by which five slaves counted as three free men toward that representation. By the end of the convention the institution of slavery itself, though never specifically mentioned, was well protected within the body of the Constitution.(2) Unfair taxation, States rights and slavery were the causes cited by the south (1)
Its conclusion established the supremacy of the authority of the Federal government over that of the individual states, ended the institution of slavery, and stimulated the industrial growth and prosperity of the entire country.

Answer 3

It was about land, that’s not too bad of an answer. If you consider that each of the colonies occupied separate and definable lands and more, that each was a separate culture. It was amazing that these separate “sovereign” cultures could come together to fight, and win, a revolution. In 1783 the States, united by the Articles of Confederation, signed the Treaty of Peace in Paris with Great Britain. In Article One it states, that each State is Free, Independent, and Sovereign, a recognition of the unique cultural differences between these colonies come States.

With the Articles of Confederation and the subsequent Constitution the various States recognized common needs for common effort, but they “knew” these commonalities were narrow and limited. They knew that the States remained Free, Independent, Sovereign and represented a unique position within the Constitution. Here I suggest that you read the Kentucky Resolution (written by Thomas Jefferson) and the Virginia Resolution (written by James Madison) where the right to nullify federal actions and to secede from the union were expressed quite clearly. Although this was a foundation for future political movements supporting the position of the States, such as the Exposition of 1828 (written by John C. Calhoun), there were others who believed (and worked for) the ascendancy of the federal government created by the States.

These others worked to enhance the power of the federal government in a way extra-constitutional, that is, they worked to extend the acts of the federal government beyond the delegated powers of the Constitution. To encroach on the cultures of the various States, to extend federal power over the lands of the States.

These two perspectives could not live together. Over the years they grew further apart covering many differences. Eventually this led to war. While President Lincoln represented the federal government to keep the union at all costs, the States which seceded believed that the federal government had already left the intent of the Founders and that only the Confederate Constitution yet remained true to the Founders’ intent..

Answer 4

Simple, land. They fought for their ways of life. It wasn't all about slavery, but because the North didn't need slaves, they could fight against this, "peculiar institution."
The south wanted their way of life to remain. In the end, it was early America trying to press its ideas on others who weren't willing to accept it and a war broke out.

Answer 5

the south wanted greater states rights with salvery
and the north wanted to keep th country in one piece with out salvery and the old goverment still intact