Although Slavery is accredited with being the main and only cause of the Civil war, according to first hand accounts and events the conspiracy of the Southerners unity and the power hungry ideas of the Northerns, were the main cause.
People in the United states believe the feud over slavery was the main cause of the civil war. That belief is partially incorrect because the true reason for the Civil War were the vast differences between the South and the North from their nationalistic ideas to their beliefs in state rights. Slavery was just a piece of this puzzle; many …show more content…
Owsley raises the idea that sectionalism was another major component in bringing about the Civil war. In the United States, one side can take control of the other because of sectional balance and the differences between the North and South way of life. The Civil War was not as simple as many common folk think. Many people blame the South for initiating the war and take it to unnecessary levels. During the time before the Civil War was waged, the Southern community felt horrified to be living under Northern control (kenneth 53). The Southern people saw the Union as a group that wanted to desolate the core of their economy by placing a ban on slavery. The attacks implemented to stop slavery, such as the nullification crisis of 1832, made the South defend themselves and caused them to implement defensive strategies. “Southern whites likewise resented the flooding of their mails with incendiary abolitionist literature”(367). The Southerners had to violated the rights of the Constitution such as the 1st Amendment which caused the Northerners to seek reform against those violations. The Union would always see the South as the inferior part of the Union and would deprive them of government opportunities to change the