Political Causes Of The Civil War

When America was first established, slavery was a custom. No one seemed to question it, but, once changes occurred, slavery became the biggest controversy of the 18th century. All of the debate eventually led to the Civil War. Both sides of the United States endured a different point of view during this time due to different political, economic, and social causes.

Initially, the North and South always had social and economic tension, but political issues sparked the Civil War. President Buchanan was seen to be the start of the Southern secession. In an agreement between the South, he agreed to not send troops towards Fort Sumter. Once he betrayed the South, 11 states had turned to the Confederacy. The Union was desperate to gain them back. The Crittenden Compromise and then the Corwin Amendment were written to try and keep the country united. The Crittenden Compromise was an attempt to amend the Constitution to include slavery, but it was turned down. Legislators then tried to write the Corwin Amendment, but southerners saw this as a weak attempt. The last attempt was to organize the Washington Peace Conference of 1861, but the Confederacy's Constitutional Convention was around the same time. All these political attempts to avoid the Civil War began to be the cause of it. After Buchanan's
It led the North further away from agricultural dependency, and the South closer to it. The North's economy did not need to rely on slaves for anything but household workers. They turned to factory jobs for their income. The South's production and economy had a huge reliance on slaves for labor, as the majority of citizens were landowners. The North eventually became a safe haven for the slaves, and they were exposed to literature written about the slaves' terrible experiences. After the Industrial Revolution, the North and South's point of view became obvious between the United