What are Four reasons the civil war started?

Answer 1

1. the philosophy of an agraian economy vs an industrial enterprise economy
2. states rights vs a strong central government
3. slavery and its expansion in the new territories
4. the misunderstanding or understanding that a Lincoln presidency would end slavery

Answer 2

This question sure gets asked a lot. There were reasons for secession, but only one reason the war was fought; Lincoln refused to allow the Southern states to peacefully leave the Union.

There were good arguments on both sides of the issue that go as far back as the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions. It was debated in the House and Senate at different times. The fact that it could be debated in Congress at all proves it was not rebellion, and that a significant number of Americans viewed it as a right.

Lincoln was in a much different position than was King George III, because the 13 Colonies most definitely rebelled; there was and is no doubt it was treason, but that treason was based on what was to become the foundation of our government; government by consent of the governed.

There were several factors that led the Southern states to secede, and slavery was one of them, but secession, and not slavery caused the war. If the Southern states had attempted to secede for any reason, the actions of the Lincoln government would have been the same, and we would still have had a war.

1. The election of a sectional president.

2. Northern states nullifying the fugitive slave laws, and thereby violating the Constitution.

3. The failure of the US government to remedy the above mentioned nullifications.

4. Neither the general government or state governments took action against groups fomenting slave insurrections and violence in the South. If John Brown had been captured outside of a Southern state, he would have been set free.

5. The exclusion of slavery from expansion into the Western territories, which would have given abolition factions in the House and Senate enough power to abolish slavery, and/or pass further tariffs which harmed the South.

6. The Union no longer served the interests of the Southern states, which it was supposed to protect, and instead became hostile to them.

Answer 3

The reason the Civil War started was not slavery. The reason the Southern states tried to secede from the union was that they believed that a state or local government had more power and authority than the federal government. Their idea was that if the Congress of the United States passed a law that a state did not like then the state's legislature could pass a law overruling the federal law in their state. Slavery just happened to be one example of those laws.

Answer 4

1) States Rights

2) The high tariffs that were put on southern ports. Almost caused a civil war in 1832 (see nullification)

3) The Southern money was controlled by Northern banks.

4) Differences in cultures (farmers/factories, Slaves/free).

Answer 5

There was only one reason the Civil War was fought.

The south wanted to succeed from the Union to become its own country, due to the tax situation.

The war was not fought over slavery, it was added in after the war began. Think about it... the war was fought by mostly white men, how many of them do you think would risk their lives for a slave? Honestly. Even today, not many white men would.

Answer 6

Slavery, The Abolitionist movement, The Northern Press and addition of new states that shifted the power in Congress to prevent compromises such as the Missouri Compromise.

In summary, the root issue was Slavery. Without it, you'd have the same smoke and mirrors as you have today with issues like the Iraq War (Occupation).

Answer 7

Abolitionism, The Free Soil Movement, Sectional Tension and the Emergence of Mass Politics, Southern fears of Modernity

Wiki will give you the full info.

Answer 8

Our founding fathers side-stepped the slavery topic and tried to control it by not allowing slavery in new territories the nation acquired. However, eventually it got too hot to ignore. The states that withdrew from the union viewed this as a property issue.

Answer 9

there is only one reason: Lincoln parked his yacht on a slave's tract of the river, and that slave threw his laptop into the Mississippi. After that, Lincoln sent an email to his colleagues, who all agreed that a war between it's own country was completely necessary to save his precious laptop named "Lappy 3000".

Answer 10

The North could not get the South to end slavery.
To free the Slaves
Economics
To loot the South