What Factor was the most instrumental in creating the Civil War?

Question

A failure of Presidential Leadership?
Overzealous Slavery Activists?
Economic Differences?
Imbedded Social Differences?

I have a debate for school and am defending why "A failure of presidential Leadership" was not the main cause of the civil war.. I need reasons to defend why it wasn't.

Answer 1

States rights and fundamental differences between the perceived economies of the northern and southern states.

Answer 2

I believe it was "slavery" issue. All factors mentioned point to the same thing: slavery.

The southern economy was based on plantations and relied heavily on a large amount of slaves. They wanted to "preserve their way of life". The slave states didn't like Lincoln because they believed Lincoln was anti-slavery. when Lincoln was elected in 1860, South Carolina issued its “Declaration of the Causes of Secession.”

The French abolished slavery in 1784 and the British in 1833. We were the last western country to abolished slavery.

Answer 3

People inability to be flexible. The North demanded their way right now, and so did the south. Not so different from the fight between Conservative and Liberal of today. It was and is the "IT WILL BE MY WAY OR NO WAY" attitude

Answer 4

none of the above.

the real reason for the civil war was that a system based on flexibility and compromise became inflexible and stopped making compromises.

also slave owners were wrong.