what were three causes of the United States Civil War?

Answer 1

1. Slavery.
2. Slavery.
3. Slavery.

As Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest said, "If we ain't fightin fer slavery, I wish somebody would tell me what we're fightin fer."

Some will say "states rights", this is evasive. The right of states that states were fighting for was the right to keep slaves.

Answer 2

Anybody can say 3 things for the cause of the Civil war, but there is only ONE truth. That being Lincoln didn't want to split the Union, being that most of the rich lived in the South. Most of America's economy was through cotton, at the time. The growing of cotton is what made America able to become financially equal to the rest of the world through trade, and selling. Near all clothing in that time, was made with cotton. If the South were to have seceded from the Union, even though it was their right, through the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution, the North, no matter how many factories they had, could never compete in world trade, and economy. They were already poor, and used children even to work in those factories.
Slavery, was never a cause for the Civil War. In fact, more blacks fought for the South than the North. In the South they were more secure, and knew they would be taken care of, and fed. The idea of Lincolns came later after the war had begun. It was a motion to rile up the blacks, free, or slaves, to help support the Union side. The truth is, only Southern blacks, slaves or not, knew about the emancipation proclamation ideas in the begginning. Lincoln before, and during the war allowed Northern slaveholder's to keep their slaves. In other words, only in Northern States was slavery still legal. Slavery was outlawed in the South only.
Before this, the South was working on a machine to pick the cotton, so it would be picked at a faster rate, than by hand, to up the economy, and make production run faster, and smoother.
This part about the Civil War, caused the South to rush the job of making the cotton-picker, since they lost the war, but had to continue to support themselves.
Lincoln broke the laws of the Bill of Right's and the Constitution, in order to keep the power of the United States of America. Some may say he did right, some say wrong. I can't decide for you. That is under your interrpretation, with the rights of free-will, and thinking granted to us by our forefathers.
All of these facts are provable, and you have the option of looking for the truth on the web, or any history book. Facts are readibly available, at all times. It just takes you to look for them.

Answer 3

Money, Gold and wealth depletion in the South. There were several "money panics" in the twenty years leading up to the war. These were hardest on the southern farmers as they would end up paying high interest (to the NY banks) on their planting loans. If the panic occurred at harvest it would devalue their crops.

Remember there was no federal government in today's sense before the civil war so the countries gold was also not centralized. The English banks that were/are really controlling the US wanted to consolidate the gold...and steal as much as they could. They accomplished both.

At the time of the war slaves were property in the south and represented a substantial part of a plantation owners wealth. If they were outlawed all of a sudden the plantation owner would lose thousands of dollars without compensation. Add to that the fact that slave importing had been outlawed almost 100 years before the war which made the slaves that were here even more valuable. Labor issues are really what sparked the war. Industrialization in the great lakes region offered paying jobs to escaped slaves and they were escaping in droves. No matter what this situation was going to bankrupt the south...they felt they had no choice but to fight for their survival.

The South also got scammed out of their gold. The English banks offered to finance and supply the south in exchange for their gold...when the gold ran out so did the help...and the Rothschilds didn't even say thank you.

Answer 4

Well, believe it or not, it had nothing to do with slavery. Lincoln simply freed the slaves becuase this is who did the majority of the work in the south. In doing so, this made it very difficult for the south's large cotton farms to operate profitably. The main issue here is that the southern states wanted to secede from the union and to be their own country. The north could not have that because of the prosperity of the southern states...in particular from cotton. So there it is...like most wars, it really is not all that humanitarian...it is about the $$$....the humanitarian causes are usually just to give the people that are fighting in the war a moral reason to fight.

Answer 5

Economic factors. The Northern part of the US was going more industrial while the Southern part was still relying much on agriculture.

Political factors. The Confederate states or the South believed there was too much power in the federal government and preferred more local control. They beleived that states should be able to leave and reeneter the union at will.

Slavery issues. While slavery was illegal in the North most Northerners didn't object to it in the South. There was, however a growing distaste for its expansion into newly aquired territories in what is now New Mexico, Arizona, and part of California. The South wanted to expand ever westward to plant their cotton and tobacco taking slave labor required for those crops with them. The Northerners objected wanting slavery halted and kept in the 11 states of the South were it was most prominent.

Answer 6

The likelihood of secession was greatly increased by the coexistence of a slave-owning South and an increasingly anti-slavery North. Lincoln did not propose federal laws against slavery where it already existed, but he had, in his 1858 House Divided Speech, expressed a desire to "arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction." Much of the political battle in the 1850s focused on the expansion of slavery into the newly created territories. Both North and South assumed that if slavery could not expand it would wither and die.

Southern fears of losing control of the federal government to antislavery forces, and northern fears that the slave power already controlled the government, brought the crisis to a head in the late 1850s. Sectional disagreements over the morality of slavery, the scope of democracy and the economic merits of free labor vs. slave plantations caused the Whig and "Know-Nothing" parties to collapse, and new ones to arise (the Free Soil Party in 1848, the Republicans in 1854, the Constitutional Union in 1860). In 1860, the last remaining national political party, the Democratic Party, split along sectional lines.

Other factors include states' rights, modernization, sectionalism, the Nullification Crisis over a tariff and economic differences between the North and South. There was controversy over adding the slave state of Missouri to the Union that led to the Missouri Compromise of 1820, the Gag Rule that prevented discussion in Congress of petitions for ending slavery from 1835-1844, and Manifest Destiny as an argument for gaining new territories where slavery would become an issue, which resulted in the Compromise of 1850. There were unsuccessful attempts to end controversy over slavery in the territories through Popular Sovereignty and Southern attempts to annex Cuba and Nicaragua as slave states. There was the polarizing effect of slavery that split the largest religious denominations (the Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian churches) and controversy caused by the worst cruelties of slavery (whippings, mutilations and families split apart). Even rival plans for northern vs. southern routes for a transcontinental railroad became entangled in the Bleeding Kansas controversy over slavery.

Answer 7

People who don't believe slavery was the main issue need to look at the actions of Lincoln and the Secessionists. The fear of Lincoln was enough to create the successions movement. Why? because he was going to free the slaves?

So the south dressed it up as states rights.

So the causes your looking for are lead by Slavery, followed by states rights, and some weird people thought tariffs were the main issues.

Answer 8

There are more than three, and slavery definitely was one of them---but contrary to those who want a simple, easy answer to everything, it ain't necessarily so.
Another major reason was rapid westward expansion into Mexican and Indian Territories and the need for a red herring issue so people ignored these big issues--Was it wrong to steal other people's land, Was it wrong to do it by violent means? Kinda related to Was it wrong to steal people and their labor?
A big part was the idea of state's rights--not the phony version sold by later politicos to push racism, but Calhoun's original idea that if the states covenanted together to form the union, they could leave the covenant and the union. This is what Lincoln said was the main issue.
As for North Carolina, the state of many of my ancestors, it was, "We're surrounded. We'd better join the rebellion quick."
And my Native American ancestors: "Hey, I can keep fighting the US Army. Cool!"

Answer 9

The North had factory's that made cloth they had free power to run the factories from the rivers and they had their slaves which they worked 14 plus hours a day with little pay, but they wanted more they wanted the South to sell{ give} them the cotton in the which to make cloth, but the South was going to sell to the highest bidder which got their ports barricaded and thus the war. They freed the souths workers but kept their own

Answer 10

Here's one cause:

Lincoln demanded that the neutral southern states provide troops for the invasion of the secessionist southern states. The neutral southern states refused to help attack their fellow southerners and joined with them instead.

This was back when many people held more loyalty to their state than to the nation as a whole. Thus if I were from Alabama, I would likely rate my loyalty as follows:

#1-Alabama #2-The South #3-The United States.

Answer 11

Slavery, Tariffs, States Rights.