What Are The Causes Of The American Civil War

In the early 1860s America faced the bloodiest war in its history, known as the American Civil War. The country was broken up by a drastic sectional divide between the North and South, which would eventually end in greater conflict than any yet seen on American soil. While many factors were important contributions to the cause of the war, there is ongoing dispute on what the most significant cause was. The North and South had many conflicting fundamental ideas such as Northern industrialism versus Southern agrarianism, and Federalism versus States Rights, however the disagreement on slavery was the ultimate cause of any conflict. Catalysts such as westward expansion and extremists wouldn’t result in conflict standing alone, without the underlying dispute over slavery to fuel them, thus making slavery the more influential cause.
In the early 1860s America faced the bloodiest war in its history, known as the American Civil War. The country was broken up by a drastic sectional divide between the North and
The fight over who was going to make these decisions could be considered a catalyst for the war as they ultimately sparked the first major acts of violence between the opposing sides. In 1819 Missouri applied for statehood requesting to be admitted as a slave state. Tensions arose from this because admission of Missouri as a slave state would upset the balanced ratio of slave to free states. To compromise Maine was admitted as a free state at the same time Missouri joined as a slave state. Additionally, it was agreed that any land above the 36°30’ line (besides Missouri) would always be free land. The disputes that needed to be compromised on were centered on the issue of balancing slavery in