What do you think was the most important event pushing the North and the South towards the civil war???
2007-11-06 14:43:02 · 12 answers · asked by Love 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
thanks guys for the answers! i think it was the election of 1860 like most of you guys said...thanks
2007-11-07 07:07:12 · update #1
election of Lincoln who was unacceptable to the South
2007-11-06 14:45:39 · answer #1 · answered by baystreet690 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The deliberate sabotage of the Democratic Convention by the seccessionists, to prevent the nomination of a candidate acceptable to all. According to historian Bruce Catton, a dedicated group of Southern separatists deliberately prevented the Convention from nominating Stephen Douglas, and then ran John Breckenridge as a democrat in the South to split their own party vote.
Together the two Democrats outpolled Lincoln, but the split enabled his election. After arranging the loss of the Democrats these people used Lincoln's election as their excuse to secede.
2007-11-06 23:12:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Dred Scott ruling and the publish of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, followed by the election of Abraham Lincoln..
2007-11-06 15:04:40 · answer #3 · answered by Wego The Dog 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
properly i could think of that the yankee Revolution is asserted as that and not as a civil conflict by using fact we weren't probably component to england yet a chain of colonies in seek of independence. We have been attempting to alter into an autonomous u . s . as adversarial to taking on Britain itself. The Civil conflict regardless of if composed of two separate countries replaced into somewhat between 2 factions of the comparable u . s .. The union purpose replaced into to maintain the southern states that had left the union. america by no skill somewhat recongnized the south as yet another u . s ., nor (i think) did the different u . s .. interior the yankee Revolution France regarded us. Had the Confederacy won the conflict it might have then exchange right into a revolution in the event that they desperate to stay a separate u . s . and not overtake Lincoln's government. Had they taken over the different government then it could have nevertheless been a civil conflict. The defination of civil conflict is that the two waring aspects come from the comparable soverign u . s ..
2016-10-15 07:43:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Economic recessions during the 1830s which hurt the North, but not the South. It was clear the value Cotton had and that slavery provided a low-cost work force. From there, Southern arrogance led it to believe it could run itself.
2007-11-06 15:05:03 · answer #5 · answered by Gerry S 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
#1 Nailed it. There were about 17, among them economics, but Lincoln was the straw that broke the camel's back. That and the fact we had a war every generation, and it was time.
Revolution - 1776 - 1781
1812 - 1812 - 1814
Mexican 1846
Civil - 1861 - 1865
Indians - 1880's
Spanish American - 1898
WWI - 1917 - 1918
WWII - 1941 - 1945
VietNam - 1966 - 1973
See how they come every 25 - 30 years?
2007-11-06 14:51:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
South Carolina's refusal to accept the results of a federal democratic election and decision to secede from the Union.
2007-11-06 14:50:27 · answer #7 · answered by WMD 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The election of Abraham Lincoln as president of USA.
2007-11-06 14:46:49 · answer #8 · answered by Frosty 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I look to the Kansas Nebraska Act 1854 as the ignition point.
Much lead up to the KS/NE Act and much more followed right up to the historical date marking the beginning of the war.
2007-11-07 02:59:13 · answer #9 · answered by Thom 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The election of Abraham Lincoln to be our first president.
2007-11-06 14:51:12 · answer #10 · answered by Cutie21 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋