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Question: Just a quick question: the Civil War was because!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!?
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Historians have debated these causes and will continue to do so!. Each choice has some validity and whoever argues that only one of them is the answer is wrong!.

My own take on it is that with secession, the South was going to take away the vital Mississippi River waterway through which much northern commerce traveled!. This is the same waterway over which the US had fought the British in the War of 1812!. The North was not going to accept the loss of the Mississippi!. Period!.

But again, do not ignore the other causes!.

"The focus of Union strategy in the West (remember the size of the country in 1860) focused on reopening the Mississippi River to Northern commerce!. For the Confederacy, its control of the Mississippi at any point was as good as holding it all!. Not until every Rebel battery and ship from Kentucky to the Gulf was cleared would one Northern hog, bushel of corn or sack of flour pass down the Father of Waters!. For the Lincoln administration, the opening of the Mississippi to national commerce was as vital an economic issue as its military aim of splitting the Confederacy asunder!. It was also a political necessity: many of the people who had settled the upper reaches of the Mississippi had moved there from the South, following the course of the river into Illinois, Missouri, and Wisconsin, and of its tributary, the Ohio, into that state and Indiana!. It was this “Northwest” area that proved the source of most political dissension throughout the war, being the seat of Copperhead sympathies and clamoring loudest for access to the markets of New Orleans!."

The U!.S!. Navy in the Civil War
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1) Slavery!.


Sure, there were other factors, but if you take slavery out of the equation, state's rights were a minor issue (because the only "right" the slavers were concerned about was the right to have, transport, and settle slaves), and secession was NOT generally supported among the population, except where the slaveholder propoganda misled them into think the "opressive" North was going to detroy their way of life (that way of life, again, was slavery)!.

Except for slavery, the difference's between the sections would never have led to war!. Those who say it was about anything else haven't read the words of the people of the time!. Even the Confederacy leaders, for years before the actual war, said that this was the only issue that mattered!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

actually, slavery was an ISSUE but not the cause, the cause was states rights vs!. federal!.!.!.i!.e!. the right to own slaves was up to then by state, but the federal government wanted to override that, which brought up the ISSUE of secession, or becoming your own nation!.

states wanted the right to govern the way they saw fit!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

it depends what you mean, slavery and state's rights argument led up to secession, but if you are looking for a direct cause it would be secession!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I think you mean secession, not succession!. Big difference, and all of the above were applicable in very large ways!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

1, 2 and 3!.
There is no simple answer!.
(But for "two" I believe you mean secession!.)Www@QuestionHome@Com

Really all three but the most popular one would be slavery!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

all threeWww@QuestionHome@Com