Civil War and Declaration of Independence?

Question: Civil War and Declaration of Independence!?

I know that the Declaration of Independence was signed after the United States broke away from Europe and I was just wondering if the Civil War was a result of this!. Thanks!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Actually, the Declaration signing WAS the moment of breaking with Great Britain!. And it was "four score" and five years later ( to quote Lincoln) that the War of Northern Aggression began!. (See my other anwsers on this topic!)Www@QuestionHome@Com

Excellent question! Is there any similarity between the southern states leaving the Union, and the colonies leaving the empire!? If an important issue for both the southern states and the original colonies was self-determination, then, yes, I guess you could say there was a similarity!.

As for the Civil War being a result of the Declaration of Independence, I wonder if any of the architects of the Confederacy appealed to that document in their own statement of independence!?

To answer this fully, you need to list all the reasons for the colonies' assertion of independence, and compare that to the reasons for the southern states leaving the Union!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Slavery had always been a concern since before the Declaration of Independence!. Many who wrote the Constitution , including John Adams and other forefathers wanted slavery banned from the start!. They only accepted it so the Southern states would ratify the Constitution!. I t remained a source of contention which led up to the Civil War!. In fact, the Civil War was almost assured from the beginning/ It was inevitable!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The War for Southern Independence broke out over the right of a state to secede from the federal government!. In 1860, the Southerners felt that they were just like the Patriots who won American independence!. Slavery was an underlying issue, In 1860 the very idea of white men dying for blacks was ludicrous!. Today we just like to think Mr!. Lincoln had more noble motives than he did!. If you think the war was about slavery, your history teacher gets an F!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Among other things, the Declaration of Independence is a foundation document justifying the separation of each colony (come State) from Great Britain and does so within the Common Law concept of each State being Free, Independent, and Sovereign!. This foundation was further developed within the Articles of Confederation and confirmed on the world stage in the 1783 Treaty of Peace (in particular Article One) between Great Britain and the United States!. From these roots grew the Constitution of the United States which was intended by the Founders to recognize these Common Law concepts!.

During the subsequent 70 odd years a segment of individuals within the federal government of the Union worked to enhance its use of sovereignty in extra-constitutional acts at the expense of State Sovereignty!. Those who finally made the break with the Union through State secession viewed their approach to government (via the Confederate Constitution) as remaining true to the concepts of the Founders !. In this sense those of the Confederacy saw themselves as the true heirs of the Declaration of Independence and their act of secession as a returning to those foundation concepts!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

No, the Civil war took place 80 some years after it was signed!.

One of the main issues behind the war was slavery!. Some supported it, some didn't!. It was not as clear as the people in the southern state supported it and those in the north didn't!.

Slaves were kept all over the states, funny how slavery was labeled as a southern thing!.

There were other issues, but this is the one you hear about most!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

You're about seventy five years off!.

The Declaration of Independence was before we "broke off" from England!. It was our way of sending the King of England a great big raspberry and saying, "You're not the boss of me!" It was followed by a war before there was actual independence in the late 1700s!. (1776 ring a bell!?)

The Dutch were the first to bring people from Africa into the colonies for slave labor in the 1600s!. Other countries followed!. A strong resistance to slavery developed in the early 1800s!. The south, which was largely agricultural, used slave labor!. The north, which was largely manufacturing, used cheap labor!. The north wanted slavery to end!. Big arguments broke out when new states came into the union!. The south didn't want anti-slave states admitted to the union because then the anti slave people would have more votes!. The north didn't want slave states admitted to the union because that would give slave states a stronger vote!. As we moved closer and closer to the abolishment of slavery, the south said they would just secede from the union and make their own country which was their right under the law, but Lincoln didn't see it that way!. He decided he would go to war to force the south to stay in the union!. The south objected to that and thus the Civil war was started in the mid 1800s!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The revolutionary war was a result of the U!.S!. declaring independence from Britain!. The civil war occurred almost 100 years later and was between the northern and southern states of the U!.S!. regarding several issues, including slavery!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The Civil war was caused by southern states succeeding from the Union!. Later on in the war slavery became more important!.South Carolina was the first state to succeed from the Union!.The succeeded states became known as the Confederacy!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Not quite!. The Civil War occurred over a century after the Declaration of Independence was signed!. In fact, everyone who had been alive at the time of the signing was dead by then!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

no - the Civil War was started almost 100 years later because the southern states were fighting with the northern states about slavery and other political views!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

no the civil war was about slavery bruh bruhWww@QuestionHome@Com