Civil War Causes
Causes of the American Civil War The American Civil War was a war fought from 1861 to 1865, after the United States split up sometime from 1860 to1861 (Causes of The Civil War (3) 1). The war was fought over secession; secession or withdrawal is when a population with significant possessions is revoked from an established single country and a founded separate government (Secession 2). In The Civil War this meant that the Southern states disaffiliated themselves from The Union and proclaimed themselves independently as what is known as The Confederate States of America (Secession Definition 1). The secession of The Civil War was caused by many reasons including, but not limited, to slavery, state rights, sectionalism, slave power and free
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The Northerners environment was much less warm and the land was not agriculturally friendly, so they did not actually need slaves; that is why they used factories. As mentioned earlier, the Northerners did not even want slaves; they took the measures to pass laws against slavery. Now, the South is a very warm environment with a tremendously agricultural land. When one is living in a farm-like land and/or owns a plantation one must acquire workers; in the time beings place, the African American slaves would be the workers. As discussed previously, the North and South completely counterpart each other (Causes…States' Rights 10 and 11). Thirdly the population contributed to the dilemmas, as well. The North had an approximated population of twenty-two million people, and the South had approximately nine million people; furthermore, the more citizens one has in their region the more voting power that region has… big advantage (Causes… States’ Rights 12) (Causes of The American Civil …show more content…
There were many attempts made to make well-rounded compromises but eventually they all turned out to be unsuccessful. Southerners assumed that Lincoln would end the growth of slavery until there were no slaves left, and so as this was a possibility, seven southern (slave) states had already seceded before Lincoln even became the President of the United States of America; if they had not done this they were going to face an everlasting, minor faction. This would then be giving the Northern states more power (not what the Southern slave states wanted). (Catton 219, 220,
The Northerners environment was much less warm and the land was not agriculturally friendly, so they did not actually need slaves; that is why they used factories. As mentioned earlier, the Northerners did not even want slaves; they took the measures to pass laws against slavery. Now, the South is a very warm environment with a tremendously agricultural land. When one is living in a farm-like land and/or owns a plantation one must acquire workers; in the time beings place, the African American slaves would be the workers. As discussed previously, the North and South completely counterpart each other (Causes…States' Rights 10 and 11). Thirdly the population contributed to the dilemmas, as well. The North had an approximated population of twenty-two million people, and the South had approximately nine million people; furthermore, the more citizens one has in their region the more voting power that region has… big advantage (Causes… States’ Rights 12) (Causes of The American Civil …show more content…
There were many attempts made to make well-rounded compromises but eventually they all turned out to be unsuccessful. Southerners assumed that Lincoln would end the growth of slavery until there were no slaves left, and so as this was a possibility, seven southern (slave) states had already seceded before Lincoln even became the President of the United States of America; if they had not done this they were going to face an everlasting, minor faction. This would then be giving the Northern states more power (not what the Southern slave states wanted). (Catton 219, 220,