The Causes Of The Civil War: Slavery, Economics, Or Constitutional Differences

Part I of Essay
History question: Historians have long debated the cause of the Civil War. Was Slavery the cause of the war? or economic differences? or Constitutional differences? Prove that it was a combination of all three. During the time around 1850, tensions were rising on the i ....

Part II of Essay
.... and it gives us a good idea of why it could be important as one of their goals during the Civil War. With slavery in mind, it brought about ideas of succession to the South. Because the South was scared of Lincoln abolishing slavery, they thought it would be a wise decision to secede from the Union. In fact, Lincoln had no plans of abolishing slavery, but stated that it should not spread to the territories. The South, basically misunderstood, and decided to secede anyway. The reason slavery was so important to the South, and lead them to ....