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    The main cause of the American Civil War was slavery. The South relied on slavery for agricultural labor, while many in the North opposed it morally. As more states joined the Union, the political balance of power between slave and free states became increasingly tense. The election of Abraham Lincoln, who opposed the expansion of slavery, prompted several Southern states to secede and form the Confederate States of America. This divided the nation and led to the Civil War.

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    The main cause of the American Civil War was slavery. The South relied on slavery for agricultural labor, while many in the North opposed it morally. As more states joined the Union, the political balance of power between slave and free states became increasingly tense. The election of Abraham Lincoln, who opposed the expansion of slavery, prompted several Southern states to secede and form the Confederate States of America. This divided the nation and led to the Civil War.

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    The main cause of the American Civil War was slavery. The South relied on slavery for agricultural labor, while many in the North opposed it morally. As more states joined the Union, the political balance of power between slave and free states became increasingly tense. The election of Abraham Lincoln, who opposed the expansion of slavery, prompted several Southern states to secede and form the Confederate States of America. This divided the nation and led to the Civil War.

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    Causes of civil war

    - By Asim Mudgal (1524)

    While there were many political and cultural


    differences between the North and the South that
    contributed to the American Civil War, the main cause
    of the war was slavery. Below we will discuss the
    impact slavery had in leading up to the war as well as
    some of the differences between the two sides that led
    to such a great divide.

    Slavery
    At the heart of the divide between the North and the
    South was slavery. The South relied on slavery for
    labor to work the fields. Many people in the North
    believed that slavery was wrong and evil. These
    people were called abolitionists. They wanted slavery
    to be illegal throughout the United States.
    Abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass, John
    Brown, Harriet Tubman, and Harriet Beecher Stowe
    began to convince more and more people of the evil of
    slavery. This made wealthy landowners in the South
    fearful that their way of life would come to an end.

    States' Rights
    The idea of states' rights was not new to the Civil War.
    Since the Constitution was first written there had been
    arguments about how much power the states should
    have versus how much power the federal government
    should have. The southern states felt that the federal
    government was taking away their rights and powers.

    Expansion
    As the United States continued to expand westward,
    each new state added to the country shifted the power
    between the North and the South. Southern states
    began to fear they would lose so much power that
    they would lose all their rights. Each new state
    became a battleground between the two sides for
    power.

    Industry vs. Farming


    In the mid-1800s, the economies of many northern
    states had moved away from farming to industry. A lot
    of people in the North worked and lived in large cities
    like New York, Philadelphia, and Boston. The southern
    states, however, had maintained a large farming
    economy and this economy was based on slave labor.
    While the North no longer needed slaves, the South
    relied heavily upon slaves for their way of life.

    Bleeding Kansas
    The first fighting over the slavery issue took place in
    Kansas. In 1854, the government passed the Kansas-
    Nebraska Act allowing the residents of Kansas to vote
    on whether they would be a slave state or a free state.
    The region was flooded with supporters from both
    sides. They fought over the issue for years. Several
    people were killed in small skirmishes giving the
    confrontation the name Bleeding Kansas. Eventually
    Kansas entered the Union as a free state in 1861.

    Abraham Lincoln
    The final straw for the South was election of Abraham
    Lincoln to President of the United States. Abraham
    Lincoln was a member of the new anti-slavery
    Republican Party. He managed to get elected without
    even being on the ballot in ten of the southern states.
    The southern states felt that Lincoln was against
    slavery and also against the South.

    Secession
    When Lincoln was elected, many of the southern
    states decided they no longer wanted to be a part of
    the United States. They felt that they had every right to
    leave. Starting with South Carolina, eleven states
    would eventually leave the United States and form a
    new country called the Confederate States of America.
    Abraham Lincoln said they did not have the right to
    leave the United States and sent in troops to force the
    Southern states to rejoin the Union. The Civil War had
    begun.

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