“Approximately 620,000 soldiers died during the Civil War. Almost as many as the combined dead of all other wars from the Revolutionary War through the Vietnam War (Boritt 634)”. The Civil War destroyed property worth billions of dollars, brought freedom to over four million slaves, and opened sores that haven’t healed completely to this day.

The debate on the main cause of the Civil War has been going on for years and will probably still be going on a hundred years from now. So we will start at the beginning, which was long before the war began to see if the exact cause can be defined.

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So, was the cause of the Civil War the slavery issue alone? After going through all the research and reference materials, we should come to the conclusion that “yes” slavery was the main cause of the Civil War. Starting with a badly written constitution and moving right down the line, to the economy because the north objected to slave labor in exporting cotton. Abolitionist’s instigation in the north, over the morality issues of slavery, sectionalism between the North and South over free and slave states being admitted to the Union. Political agenda’s, and the new Republican Party issues on slavery, and finally, the secession of the Southern states over their rights as a state to have slaves. Once the facts have been given, yes, it is easy to see that slavery was the main cause and issue that took the North and South into the Civil War.

The people in the south were afraid of Lincoln because they knew that he would put an end to slavery. They began talking about seceding even before the election of 1860. Making the constitution their reason for doing so, they believed that the states had the power to secede if they felt they were being wronged. No one in the north really believed the south would secede. “The slavery question over shadowed all others in the Presidential election […[ (Gallagher 5)”. Lincoln became everyone in the north’s second choice for President because he thought and vocalized that the constitution it was forbidding the government to take action against slavery where it already was (Harrison 3), “[…] and throughout his Presidency he was regarded by the majority of the northern political leaders as incompetent for his office (Barker 114)”.

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