Causes Of The Civil War

The Civil War was arguably the bloodiest war in American history. With around 800,000 casualties, the war caused more victims than World War 1, the American Revolution, and the Vietnam War. Many people believe the war could have been avoided altogether, but I personally feel like there was too much involved for it to have been completely avoided. The main causes of the war were issues regarding slavery, conflict of power between states and the government, and conflict over government taxation.
The conflict of rights between states and the federal government was one that had begun almost a century earlier after the American Revolution. When the Revolution ended, the states identified themselves as independent states with their own laws and regulations.
Movements to abolish slavery began taking place in the North in the 1830’s. There were abolitionist ideas and views present in the North through beginning in the 1820’s, but in the 1830’s the ideals began being spread widely throughout the North and news of it reached the South. The abolitionists goals were to halt the spread of slavery through the west, and to disallow it from taking place in the new states that were joining the Union. Abolitionist ideas were spread hugely in churches in the North. Preaches including Lyman Beecher, Nathaniel Taylor, and Charles G FInney played a major part in leading ideals that emerged as abolitionist views. By 1833, the American Anti-Slavery Society was founded; it declared slavery a major sin and that it should be abolished immediately. Along with abolitionist views, the North began supporting abolitionist politicians. The activism for abolishment of slavery actually helped fuel the fight for Women's Rights in the future.The South found this new activism extremely threatening to their colonies.The movements inspired Nat Turner’s Rebellion among other uprisings in the South and caused the South to fire back at the North’s criticism. As time went on there was a continuously widening division between the North and the South. The conflicts between them grew much more intense as did the resentment between people. The government's action to keep balance by allowing the same amount of slave and free states in the Union made sure both sides were equally heard in Congress. Eventually in the 1850’s, the South, who wanted greater state power, began threats of seceding from the Union. The South believed they had the power to secede from the Union just as they had signed the legislature to join. John Calhoun, a South Carolina senate representative, believed the Senate should pass an amendment to give the South “the power she possessed of