what are some milestones that led to the American civil war?

Answer 1

Big John is correct, but as starting points you might look at the Missouri Compromise ~1820, the Wilmot Proviso in the latter 1840s, and the Compromise of 1850 which included a new inflammatory fugitive slave law. It was primarily a sectional dispute over slavery though many apologists for the South would claim it was states rights which is in fact a euphemism for the states' rights to have slavery. Lincoln's election in 1860 added the spark to the fuse, but the kegs of gunpowder had been piling up for at least forty years.

Answer 2

IT was rather simple: the North had the factories, the South had the material (cotton) the North wanted the cotton at there prices and demands, the South wouldn't agree. They felt the North was being a brute and ordering them while they held the Trump hand.

Factions from the South wanted war, they started rumors that the North was going to move into the Virginia farmlands and take over the farms for their own people. They started these rumors and let them grow. Before you know what happen, the Virginia militia rose to fight any Northern armies that came down.
Fort Sumter was fired on, by mistake, the Representatives didn't think it would go that far and tried to stop it but, it was to late, the war had started.

There are several other theories but, they all probably go together and all add up to that same thing.

Answer 3

How far back do you want to go? First arrival of an African slave in Jamestown? Discovery of tobacco? Finding cotton as an ideal crop for the Southern Colonies. Growth of Northern population, Philadelphia, New York. Boston? You must be more specific with such questions.

Answer 4

the compromise during the constitutional convention
the missouri compromise
Nullification Crisis
the mexican american war
WIlmont Provisio
Dred Scott Supreme Court case
Bleeding Kansas
Election of Abraham Lincoln
etc

Answer 5

The political maneuvering of the northern politicians who began to stop the cotton raised in the south and sold to English textile factories.
Although 'slavery' was the propaganda 'fed' to the northerners, behind this were the profits, which the south were getting and the north wanted........[among other reasons....
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