what was the civil war really fought over and it wasnt slaves.?

Answer 1

The Southern states believed that the Federal Government was over stepping it's bounds and decided they wanted to secede from the Union of States. The North wanted to prevent that, and keep The U.S. in tact.

Answer 2

The Civil War was fought over more than for slavery existing or not.In fact ,it was not the original intention that the North would fight the Civil war in the first place to eliminate slaverybut to preserve the Union. There were two types of economies two types of governance and two types of societies or 2 cultures you might say.It was as if we were 2 countries welded into one. It would be only after the Battle of Antietam , a much needed yet narrow Union victory only because the North kept the South prematurely from gaining access to the North until Gettysburg the following year did Lincoln issue the emancipation proclamation, a bold but risky political manuever to increase the morale of Union soldiers by giving them a sense of purpose and direction that they were fighting the war for the nation's survival rather than only preserving it as it was in the status quo.

We must ask ourselves the direction we were going to follow in years to come . Would we be a farming or agricultural nation or an industrial nation? Would we be a nation of free independent states or would we be a nation composed of individual states making up one central union? Would we be a class under a plantar class culture or would be a nation of free enterprisers forging with progress under the industrial complex of labor?It can be said therefore that whenever there is a clash of economies , governance, political philosophies,cultural differences it will usually lead to a general type of conflict which can lead to war of a certain degree. Every great nation goes through it in some time in their history.

You are right it was not slavery that we really fought the Civil War but it did become a reason not only because Lincoln issued a proclamation but also the political, economical and social climates called for it to come to an end. The end of slavery can be best described as a subtopic under the greater topic of differing political,economical and social philosophies and cultural viewpoints.For one to survive then the other had to go so we could become a greater nation.

Answer 3

Before the Civil War it was technically possible for a state to leave the union. Several Southern states decided to test that. They felt that the North was getting into their business over the issue of slavery.

One of the reasons it failed is those same Southern states didn't agree on what kind of government they wanted. They acknowledged the need to unite against the North, but they didn't agree on how much they should contribute to their defense and some had no intention of staying in the CSA once the war was over.

Lincoln's war was over that right to secede. His goal was to preserve the Union. The slavery issue wasn't that important at the beginning of the war.

The Civil War settled it. As one noted historian put it, before the war it was correct to say the United States ARE. After the war and even today, you say the United States IS.

Answer 4

Different historians will have different interpretations.

Some will draw the distinction that the main issue was the rights of states vs. the rights of the federal government. The confederacy wanted maximum states' rights, the union wanted centralized government.

Of course, the issue that was the crux of the debate over states' rights was slavery; they wouldn't have fought the civil war if it was over tobacco sales.

Then again, it might just be argued that the underlying motive for the civil war was the cultural divide and regional jealousies between the industrialized, egalitarian north and the agricultural, aristocratic south. Fueled a little bit by the romanticizing of war, the easy availability of cheap recruits, and the lust for power among the nation's leaders.

Answer 5

The north was trying to control the south in a similar manner to which Britain tried to control the States. The United States went to war with Britain to obtain independance. Britain was charging extremely high taxes on us. That is the same thing the North tried to do to the South. They tried to raise taxes on farming and agriculture (mainly located in the south) to nearly three time the amount paid on manufacturing (mainly in the north). The South thought this was unfair and succeded when nothing was done about it.

Slavery was not even an issue when the War of Northern Aggression began. In fact, Abraham Lincoln had more slaves (17) than Jeff Davis, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Nathan Forrest combined (13).

Answer 6

a States right to succeed from the Union. At first the North was not going to abolish slavery in the south that wasn't decided till the war was all but over. The south succeeded after the north tried to make it to where no new states being formed in the west could be a slave state which would of gave the north more power in congress.

Answer 7

It was over State's Rights and slavery was the straw that broke the camel's back so to speak. The South saw all of it's rights being taken over the different view of the North. The North didn't really care what their way would do to the South as the South saw it. Things kept getting worse and worse basically and then the slavery thing just brought it to a head. As to why people THINK it was over slavery, I learned about that in College. See Lincoln CLAIMED it was over slavery to keep England and France from coming to the aid of the South. Once it was over slavery the two Empires KNEW they couldn't help the South.

Answer 8

it was fought over states rights, also
lincoln just wanted to keep the Union together. The South felt the north was taking their rights away as states so they seceded.

Answer 9

the Union wanted to go to war to save the U.S.A. and the South thought the North were taking the ways of living styles(slaves) away from them.

Answer 10

It was about the right to own slaves. The southern states wanted to secede from the union because they wanted to keep slavery legal. If they had agreed to free slaves there wouldn't have been a war. This would have ruined the south economically. They couldn't keep up the plantations without free labor.

January 19th - Georgia secedes from the Union. On January 29th Georgia's Declaration of Secession is approved stating, "For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding confederate States with reference to the subject of African slavery. They have endeavored to weaken our security, to disturb our domestic peace and tranquility, and persistently refused to comply with their express constitutional obligations to us in reference to that property, and by the use of their power in the Federal Government have striven to deprive us of an equal enjoyment of the common Territories of the Republic."

February 1861

February 1st - The Texas Legislature votes to secede from the Union. In a general election, held on February 23, 1861, voters ratified secession by a better than three to one margin. In the Texas Declaration of Secession it states, "In all the non-slaveholding States, in violation of that good faith and comity which should exist between entirely distinct nations, the people have formed themselves into a great sectional party, now strong enough in numbers to control the affairs of each of those States, based upon an unnatural feeling of hostility to these Southern States and their beneficent and patriarchal system of African slavery, proclaiming the debasing doctrine of equality of all men, irrespective of race or color - a doctrine at war with nature, in opposition to the experience of mankind, and in violation of the plainest revelations of Divine Law. They demand the abolition of ***** slavery throughout the confederacy, the recognition of political equality between the white and ***** races, and avow their determination to press on their crusade against us, so long as a ***** slave remains in these States."