Was slavery the cause of the American revolution???

Question

and if it was why??? or why not???

please i have an essay to write!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

thats right he civil war..ok...a mistake

Answer 1

Yes. The Civil War started after Lincoln was elected president. North Carolina warned that if he was, they would secede from the union. They did and shortly thereafter the war began. All of this because Lincoln was from the north, and slave-owning states thought that he would tip the balance of power by adding more free states than slave-states to the union.

Answer 2

It was the civil war, by the way. It was one of the main reasons of why the American revolution started. It started also when Abraham Lincoln, a republic, became president of the United States. The South was afraid that they would lose their Southern lifestyle so they left the Union. There was more reasons of why the South left. People in the North hated slavery a lot and the South was angry at them for letting the slaves enter the North...more stuff happened. Basically the real reason was because of their differences. North was industrialized/factorized, it was fast ; South was slow, more agricultural.

Answer 3

God No!

The American Revolution was in the 1770's. Not many people had a problem with slavery at that time as the American Colony whose economy depended on hand-picked crops like Tobacco and Cotton could not have survived without it. It was when the British government became too demanding that the leaders of the colonies organised themselves against their overlords and rebelled. This led to all out war and the British were eventually defeated (with the help of the The French let's never forget) and expelled, one of many cases in history where a small army, fighting for their very homes, defeated a much larger force against the odds. As for slavery, many of the American leaders and heroes, such as Washington and Jefferson, were in fact slave owners themselves, and so hardly likely to fight against it.

Are you instead thinking of the Civil war of the 1860's? If so it may be said that slavery was the cause, though it was in fact only one of many causes. It was Lincoln who declared (when the war was in the balance) that this was in fact a fight against slavery and for the freedom of men, regardless of colour. This was a brilliant move as it polarised the populations of the North and South, and gave the Northern (or Union) forces the motivation of fighting for a noble and just cause.

There is a great deal more information available though it is probably best that you decide which century you are working on.

Answer 4

Joel is right. It was basically about state's rights. More specifically how the states were represented in Congress. At the time, the number of representatives a state had in Congress was largely contingent on the population of the state. The Northern states had a greater population, so they usually got their way. This angered the residents of the southern states, and that was what started the chain of events leading to the Civil War. One of these hot-button issues was slavery. So slavery was merely a symptom of the Civil War, not the root cause.

Answer 5

It was an incentive to revolt, as would any modality of slavery be, whether implied or pronounce.

But the revolution does share similiarity with that of the Civil War: the underpinning of both? economics, finance.

During the Revolutionary War, the British imposed oppressive tax and socioeconomics levies, which in effect is an enslaving imposition, ay, proposition, certainly given that the prime incentive of the many to leave Great Britain ( and a few from other foreign States) was held as due to nothing short of slavery. We should add here that chattel slavery did indeed exist during the 16th through 18th Centuries, but at that time the slave was the red race, not the black race, of which some of the first red slaves were of the Carib nation -- hence, after which the Carribean Sea was named, in short was this all an "affirmative action" that persisted wholly in favor of the white European for well over 150 years before the advent of the trade industry, in a form of exchange whose chief commodity was that of the black African slave...

During the Civil War, the slavery modality, that of black people, can be thought either primary or secondary, depending on how one chooses to face truth, or how they determine which truth is applicable and of greater importance. Chattel slavery hitherto that time was foundational to -- again -- a strong economic market and thriving industry, of which not few European States grew gravely jealous...

Thus being ever a point on both politics and economics, to abolish slavery was to wipe out burgeoning, outrageously sweeping industries on which the North and South could not and would not come to agreements. Mattered not whether the seed of trouble lay with the European or American; what truly did import was financial and economical bases: to some, that the evident slave was black was but a mere incidental to a perverse market and voracious, callous need.

That the black slave was abducted and assailed speaks volumes of the white race at that time, and which legacy persists to this very day. And at the risk of editorializing here, the European-American did and has in effect enjoyed over 400 years of affirmative action against both the red and black races -- even to the coarsest observation by social scientists or scholars of history -- if they but be truly honest.

Do not think that such revolt and incivility has quelled in any the slightest manner in all these centuries. Both wars persist to this day in subdued and subtle fashion, and which pattern may have only changed its hue: from that of black and red to now brown and olive.

Answer 6

Civil War was more on states rights, if you have an essay try to research nullification...that was a biggie. But slavery was one of the issues that the southern states had. Research the 1860 presidential election. The south said if Licoln was elected then they would leave the Union.

Answer 7

there became 3 motives: Implementation of a stable nationwide financial employer, Civil works initiatives interior the North, least of motives slavery. those motives are grouped below states rights with the help of time of Civil conflict slavery as topically depicted became on the way out. proprietors of slaves attempt to get Lincoln Federal government to purchase them. There would have been import and export value lists conflict, via fact North and South had different positions. don't have particular understanding on value lists, yet think of North enjoyed intense and South Low. interior the form the importation of slaves became banned after date which I forget. whilst North stopped returning escaped slaves wager what varieties the place breed. Automation constrained elect for that type. It became considered one of these ethical situation Lincoln did no longer unfastened them till a private loan from France became mandatory. My wager important clarification for Civil conflict became reason Johnson became impeached. The attempt to enforce a stable nationwide financial employer.

Answer 8

1770 Boston Massacre
1764 British Impose New Taxes
1765 Stamp Tax Passed
1773 Boston Tea Party

Here is a pretty good website about the causes of the American Revolution:
http://independence.nyhistory.org/museum/exhibition.cgi?page_id=9903

Answer 9

Americans did not wish to continue as subjects of the British Crown, and especially have to pay taxes on tea, which was highly impopular, and other ones, and the snotty attitude some Brits had towards those born on American soil. Americans defended equality, because they were not treated as equals, liberty, because they lacked it and were like second class citizens compared to Brits. Independence was what they wanted badly. They wanted a sovereign nation and they got it. They were also influenced by the ideas that actually spawned the French Revolution later on. Indentured servants also had their say because indenture was akin to slavery, of a different kind, at least whites you could buy their freedom, blacks never could. Oppression from Britain was eliminated.

Answer 10

I think you're confusing that with the Civil War- fought, for the most part because of slavery.

The American Revolution was fought over taxes. (in addition to other issues of colonialism)