Essay On The Causes Of The Civil War

The American Civil War, the bloodiest war in America's short history, was thought to be only caused over the issue of slavery. While that did play into many of the more sophisticated arguments, there were many other deciding factors of causing the war. The war was not caused by just economic struggles, or political disagreements, but rather a mixture of both.

The economic struggle between the north and the south were all about deep-rooted beliefs. The International Improvements that the federal government sponsored would improve roads, bridges, and anything else that needed repairing. The northern states were all gung-ho about the idea, while the south believed that they shouldn't spend their hard earned money on some other state. There was also the the issue with the National Bank, while the north were eagerly awaiting this profound idea to happen, the south remained stubborn in their thought that each individual state should have its own bank, and control its own
The tariff issue almost made South Carolina secceed before it actually did, because they believed that they had no benefits from it and all the money through the tariff would go to the north. The south was also scared over the balance of power within the government. For example, free states took over the House of Representatives, for many years, and gained control over yhe senate because of the Compromise of 1850. Also, with the election of Abraham Lincoln, the slave states were beginning to think that the free states had control over the presidency. The final straw that aggravated sectionalism and brought along seccession was the Compromise of 1850, and the Ostead Manifesto. The Compromise of 1850 threw the balance of power off track, and when the slave states tried to balance it again through the obtation of Cuba, through the Ostead Manifesto, as a slave state, it was shot