What led to the cause of the Civil War?

Question

do you think it was mainly slavery?
what about territorial expansion?
or something else?

Answer 1

It is amazing that to this day people defend slavery and praise the Southern States for their rebellion. Yes it is true there were a variety of factors and yes the North was wealthier however what no Southerner will admit is that the South had mineral wealth and could have developed as an industrial power - - - the South had coal, the only diamond mine in North America in Arkansas, and Gold in Georgia and Alabama for which they booted out the Native Americans.

Despite what Southern Apologist say, Slavery was an Evil, not only morally wrong but the very institution was crippling the South financially. Territorial Expansion was a BS issue, the South said that they feared that if there were more Northern States than Southern States, that the North would pass legislation harmful to Southern interests. What truly angered the South was that a majority of Pioneers did not want slavery in new territories. California was a great example; think how 'efficient' it could be to mine Gold & Silver utilizing Slave Labor. South Africa did it during the 20th Century. But no, when Californians learned that a group of Southerners were using slaves to dig for gold, they ran them off, and when it came time for California to organize as a territory and then as a state they came down on the side of freedom.

Best to put the Civil War down to Southern Arrogance anchored on racist slavery.

Peace...

Answer 2

The Southern states wanted a government based on a weak central or "federal" government and stronger states rights. Slavery was a side issue and even Lincoln hesitated to make slavery the central issue, but finally did with the Emancipation Proclamation. Check your local library for a copy of Ken Burns' series on the Civil War. Explains it quite well.

Answer 3

Slavery, of course, but the MAIN reason was the struggle for power. Who was going to control the rich lands of the West, th agrarian South or the industrial North. (Economics is usually behind every war fought.) Also, secession was an issue.When the Confederate states tried to withdraw from the Union, Lincoln would not let them. All these led to the Civil War in the US.

Chow!!

Answer 4

The north became into not taxing the south interior the commonsense of the be conscious . the federal government chosen to place cost lists on imported synthetic products including metallic and textiles . Slavery became into not the crucial reason besides the incontrovertible fact that it became into continually purely below the exterior . the difficulty of a solid federal government or a susceptible federal government and strong individual state governments became into continually a factor of opposition . Make no mistake approximately it countless the earliest states to secede have been with regard to the slavery difficulty . The commonly agricultural financial equipment interior the south revolved around forced slave exertions . there became right into a physique of concepts between countless the southern people who the black human beings have been actually sub human and not entitled to stay as unfastened human beings . this physique of concepts flew interior the face of our founding data , " All adult adult males are created equivalent ..." and an excellent form of human beings interior the north sought to end slavery . The excuse that many plantation owners used became into " i can not get each physique to do this artwork so i might desire to have slaves to do it ." on an identical time as the fact might have been fairly genuine as to the low experienced field artwork , many slaves have been doing experienced artwork including carpentry, masonry, and blacksmithing . The slave financial equipment had the effect of depressing the wages of white human beings interior the experienced trades while you evaluate that they had slaves that would do those jobs for room and board and the slaves had no selection interior the difficulty. Slavery became into this completely immoral prepare that had to be addressed faster or later and 1861 became into finally the time .

Answer 5

people in the south were very accustomed to slavery. their way of life depended on it because redneck southerners were too lazy to go out and handle their business themselves, so they took slaves to do it, when slavery no longer became profitable in northern areas, which had a greater concentration of anti slavery sentiments, lincolns election to the presidency and his emancipation proclamation, heated the south and they threw a fit which they called "the war of northern agression" which the world calls the civil war. they still think the civil war is going on in fact, calling it a "ceasefire" yeah gotta love those hillbillys

Answer 6

A lot of people think it was slavery, but the main reason was because of taxation. It just seemed nobler to say the war was to free the slaves.

Answer 7

Something else? How about the truth? “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 8

The blunders and slip-ups with human errors in the creation of iving human kind into mankind of intelligent design being created with artificial intelligence of artificial design with communication problems functioning like a desk-top with (GIGO) garbage in and garbage out with (WYSWYG) what you see is what you get in clubbing another living human kind
like themselves living in misery in planet of apes.
The blunders and slip-ups with human errors with living examples expose in Iraq in planet of apes.
Luke 9.60

Answer 9

freedom and self reliance