Causes of the Civil War
Causes of the Civil WarAlthough some historians feel that the Civil War was a result of
political blunders and that the issue of slavery did not cause the conflict,
they ignore the two main causes. The expansion of slavery, and its entrance
into the political scene.
The North didn't care about slavery as long as it stayed in the South.
South Carolina seceded, because Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, was voted
into office. The Republican party threatened the South's expansion and so
Southerners felt that they had no other choice.
The United States was divided into three groups by the time the Civil
War began: those who believed in the complete abolition of slavery, those
who were against the expansion of slavery, and those who were pro slavery.
The Republican party was formed in opposition to southern expansion. Their
views were Free Soil, Free Men and Free Labor. The Republicans were anti-
South but they were in not abolitionists. They believed that slavery was a
flawed system that made the south ineffective and because the North's free
labor system was superior it must be guarded from southerners.
When the Republican candidate,...
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