Slavery was the Cause of the Civil War

"Slavery was the Cause of the Civil War."
Although the North and the South were part of the same Union they were very different in many ways. The Southern states believed in slavery while the northern states were against it. Eventually it would lead to the War Between the States or the Civil War. There other reasons that left to the Civil War as well but slavery was the main cause of the war.
The South had always been slave states. They wanted them to include the new states as slave states so they would be able to send more state leaders into Congress. The South wanted to succeed from the Union. The south also believed that the states should have the stronger government more so then the federal government. They believed the laws that the federal government was putting into effect should be nullified by the states if they so choose. The federal government felt differently. The federal government believed that all states should follow the federal laws that the government had put out.
States in the South began to succeed from the union. When Lincoln was elected there was only 8 states left in the southern Union. Lincoln being elected also did not help avoid the war. The south believed that he was anti slavery and that he was pro war and would not help the south with their cause. "Lincoln strove to ensure that if hositlities did break out, the South not the Union, would fire the first shot." (Foner 531)
Although those issues did hold a major cause of the Civil War everything always came back to slavery. The North and the South had always disagreed about slavery. Lincoln had stated "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free." (Foner 521) Lincoln believed that there had to be a choice and the country as a whole had to agree on slavery or against slavery.
It had always come back to slavery when it came to causes of the Civil War. The South could not be happy if they had lost slavery. They had a cotton and tobacco farm based economy. Inside that economy they used slaves to make the money that they needed. The South had always counted on their slavery. Slavery is what had kept them afloat. They depended on slavery to help with their manual labor of their plantations.
The Slave states wanted to keep adding on to the slave states. As the west was expanding they had fought for more slaves states. If they were able to gain more slave states they would be able to add more pro slavery state into the federal government. Having more leaders in the government would give the slave states more of a say in what was happening the federal government.
After two years of the Civil War the Emancipation Proclamation was put in to effect by President Abraham Lincoln. The Emancipation Proclamation stated the emancipation of the slaves in all of the rebelling states.
There were many different causes that led to the American Civil War. There were political and social reasons but each time the issue always came down to slavery. Slavery ws the main cause of the Civil War. The South could not give up slavery without a fight. Slavery meant too much to them economically to just give it up with out a fight.