Slavery and the Civil War?

Question

how did slavery cause the civil war?

Answer 1

If you want or have to accept your History Book claims then then this is a waste of time. But if you'll accept the work of others then at least read the answer and consider the information think of how you'll impress your teachers!

“Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy, that our youths will be taught by Northern school teachers; learn from Northern school books THEIR version of the war”. General Patrick Cleburne

“and they [Yankees] are marked ... with such a perversity of character, as to constitute, from that circumstance, the natural division of our parties” Thomas Jefferson

In the 1770s, the South had every reason to continue the relationship with England, one of its best customers. It was the manufacturing North that was getting the short end of that stick. Southerners joined the Revolutionary War out of patriotism, idealism, and enlightened political philosophy such as motivated Jefferson, not patriotism, philosophy, and economic betterment which inspired the North.
In 1860, the shoe was on the other foot. Southern agrarians were at heel to the nation's bankers and industrialists. That just got worse with the election of the Republican Lincoln, bringing back into power the party favoring the wealthy supply side, as it still does.
Then as now central to that, party's interest was keeping down the cost of manufacture. Today labor is the big cost, so today they move the plants offshore and leave US workers to their fate. Back before the US labor movement existed the big cost was raw materials, and the GOP was just as unprincipled toward its Southern suppliers as it is today toward labor.
Thanks to modern graveyard science and surviving records, researchers know that in 1760, 100 years before the War Between the States, Charleston, South Carolina, had the largest population of slaves and we say proudly the second largest slave population was in New York City.
One of the main quarrels was about taxes paid on goods brought into this country from foreign countries. This tax was called a tariff. Southerners felt these tariffs were unfair and aimed toward them because they imported a wider variety of goods than most Northern people. Taxes were also placed on many Southern goods that were shipped to foreign countries, an expense that was not always applied to Northern goods of equal value. An awkward economic structure allowed states and private transportation companies to do this, which also affected Southern banks that found themselves paying higher interest rates on loans made with banks in the North. As industry in the North expanded, it looked towards southern markets, rich with cash from the lucrative agricultural business, to buy the North's manufactured goods. The situation grew worse after several "panics", including one in 1857 that affected more Northern banks than Southern. Southern financiers found themselves burdened with high payments just to save Northern banks that had suffered financial losses through poor investment. However, it was often cheaper for the South to purchase the goods abroad. In order to "protect" the northern industries Jackson slapped a tariff on many of the imported goods that could be manufactured in the North. When South Carolina passed the Ordinance of Nullification in November 1832, refusing to collect the tariff and threatening to withdraw from the Union, Jackson ordered federal troops to Charleston. A secession crisis was averted when Congress revised the Tariff of Abominations in February 1833. The Panic of 1837 and the ensuing depression began to gnaw like a hungry animal on the flesh of the American system. The disparity between northern and southern economies was exacerbated. Before and after the depression the economy of the South prospered. Southern cotton sold abroad totaled 57% of all American exports before the war. The Panic of 1857 devastated the North and left the South virtually untouched. The clash of a wealthy, agricultural South and a poorer, industrial North was intensified by abolitionists who were not above using class struggle to further their cause.
In the years before the Civil War the political power in the Federal government, centered in Washington, D.C., was changing. Northern and mid-western states were becoming more and more powerful as the populations increased. Southern states lost political power because the population did not increase as rapidly. As one portion of the nation grew larger than another, people began to talk of the nation as sections. This was called sectionalism. Just as the original thirteen colonies fought for their independence almost 100 years earlier, the Southern states felt a growing need for freedom from the central Federal authority in Washington. Southerners believed that state laws carried more weight than Federal laws, and they should abide by the state regulations first. This issue was called State's Rights and became a very warm topic in congress.

These are facts not emotions or unsupported claims, now what was the War over?


God Bless You and The Southern People.

Answer 2

Slavery didn't cause the civil war it was the biggest factor of the war. What happened was the Lincoln didn't want the nation to be divided.

Answer 3

Slavery did NOT cause the civil war. It was the the south trying to leave the union. Lincoln just did that to weaken the south.

Answer 4

Despite this belief, slavery was actually a minor issue. The civil war came about because of economic reasons. There's a wealth of material available explaining sanctions against the south. It's very involved.

Answer 5

Even though Lincoln was against the war many states of his time were Slave states due to the Missouri compromise and the fact that many states in the south were dependent upon slavery. Once many Supreme Court decisions were siding with the slaves regarding the slave question. The south began to panic. They did not like Lincoln nor the judicial policies that they saw as changing their way of life, so they decided to ceded from the government. By doing this they wanted to create their own government that would not depend on the laws of the federal government of that time or its president. By ceeding from the United states they nominated their own president. Lincoln took issue with this and decided to punish the south by taking away its precious slave commodity.

Answer 6

The southern slave-owning states wanted to maintain their "peculiar institution" of slavery, despite the trend to abolish it. Once the southern states felt the "threat" to this institution in the form of the growing political power of the northern states, and the democratically-elected President (Abraham Lincoln), they thought it best to secede and defend themselves and their "peculiar institution". If it were not for the "threat" of abolishing slavery and the belief in states rights, the south would not have seceded, and the Civil War could have been prevented. See the sources below:
(southron you need to see the sources below too)