What were the causes ofthe Civil War?

Answer 1

Western Expansion, the southern cotton boom, the Missouri Compromise, the Dred Scott Decision, the Gabriel Plot were other contributing factors to the Civil War. With the invention of the cotton gin there was an explosion in American cotton production and cotton demand, thus the demand for more slave labor.

Answer 2

the southern states seceeding from the union, the civil war was not fought entirly over slavery it was to preserve the union. Many different opinions exist concerning the causes of the Civil War. 1. Many people think that economics causes all wars. The people of the North wanted a higher tariff so they could have factories and jobs. The people of the South wanted a low tariff so they could get less expensive goods from England. 2. Many people think slavery was the cause. Rich people did not want to lose the economic benefit of losing their slaves. Poor people feared competition for jobs from freed slaves. Northerners hated the Fugitive Slave Law because it was an instrument of legalized terror; free people were kidnapped and carried away. 3. The South had become a minority in Congress and the region was being treated as such. (Basically the same thing happened in "The War on Poverty" when the Federal Government sent twice as much money for each child to a rich state as it did to Mississippi, the poorest state in the union.)

Answer 3

the secession of the Confederate states from the Union

Answer 4

Sectionalism, States Rights, and Slavery