How Did Slavery Caused The Civil War

Slavery, “the practice or system of owning slaves” and slave define as “a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them”. That was the mindset of most white people in America during this time and era. This was roughly the 1800’s. The white men thought it was okay to own another human being as long as their skin color was different from theirs. You could buy or sell any slave you had. They were treated like property, instead of the human beings they were. Slavery caused the civil war because slavery was a big issue they constantly argued over. The north didn’t own any slaves and felt it was in humane and wanted to abolish slavery. While the south loved having slaves to do there work for them and wanted to keep slavery. They argued so much that it started to split the country & finally the south said they were leaving America and being there own country.
Leading up to the civil war, slavery
Slavery also helped the civil war because with out President Abraham Lincoln putting the Emancipation Proclamation into use, he wouldn’t have had any more soldiers to fight for him and possibly could have lost the war and that means things would be very different for people in the south. Lincoln freed the slaves and got more help and won so that is why things the way they are now. Even though its still racism in the world. The African Americans in this country are free and somewhat are treated equally. Slavery shaped this country into what it is now. If slavery wouldn’t have never happened there wouldn’t be any dark skinned people in America because they wouldn’t have came to Africa and kidnapped African people and make them slaves for there own pleasure. If slavery didn’t happen there wouldn’t have even been a civil war because the biggest issue at hand between the North and South wouldn’t have