At the time slavery was one of the main issues in America that caused a disagreement between the north and south and these disagreements about humanity and slaves added to the tension that would finally lead to the out break of war.

Slavery was almost totally abolished in the northern states after 1787 when the Constitution was drafted at the Philadelphia Convention and slavery was looked upon as the 'peculiar institution' of the southern states, by the north. The southern states looked upon slavery as a way of life and were in no way prepared to give up what they felt was there property and a very important part of their cotton and farming production. Another implication that caused great tension between the north and south over the issue of slavery was that even though their were anti-slavery supporters in the south; some of the abolitionists of the north would write notices and say that all southerners were evil and cruel slave owners, who would treat their slaves badly. This angered the southerners who felt that the n

The second major cause of the American Civil War was the extremely different societies of North and South. The north was none slave owning, as I've already mentioned, and the south was slave owning; these were not the only differences in their two societies. The South was extremely agricultural, produced cash crops-cotton, tobacco and sugar cane, which they would export either to the north or to Europe. The North on the other hand was very industrial, with many factories with paid laborers, and manufactured much of the equipment that the south required for their economic structure. Not only were their two economic structures different but also were their life styles and the parts of America that they lived in. In the South there was a tropical climate with rivers and land inhabited by wild animals, such as alligators. Also the people in the south had different accents and they lived much a different lifestyle to the Northerners. In the North they too had a different climate, o!

ew Mexico, were set up with a choice of slavery or not and this would be decided by the settlers in the area. Then came the Missouri Compromise where slave-owning Missourians applied for statehood this started a problem as it upset the balance of free and slave states which were 11 each at the time. This compromise led to the formation of the Republican Party that was committed to preventing the spread of slavery. Later it was to become clear that the issue of slavery in western expansion of starting new states and settlement had divided North and South and there would be no compromise to settle it, instead civil war would come.

The third and most important cause that finally led up to the war was Secession. But before the actual secession act happened there were other events that led up to this point. Firstly the Nullification crisis which happened in 1832-3 when the state of South Carolina declared the US's tariffs to be unconstitutional by declaring this, the state put the 'nullification doctrine' in to operation. They used this to basically show that if the federal government were to exceed their powers, such as abolish slavery, any or all states could nullify this action, in other words a precedent. Later the controversy was resolved through a compromise which modified the US tariff bu

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