However, slavery was not the only cause of the Civil War. There were many other factors. some remote and some proximate. Cultural and economic differences were one of the remote causes. The South was an agricultural society, based on slavery. All institutes were based on the promotion and maintenance of slavery. The North, however, has become an industrial society, based on free wage and labor. The North controlled 92% of the nation’s industry. It also had twice the amount of railroad, controlled 2/3 of the nation’s money supply, the army, and the navy. Another problem was that many people had different interpretations of the Constitution. John Calhoun and many other Southerner’s supported the Contract Theory, which stated that since the original 13 states voluntarily entered the Constitution, they could voluntarily leave. Politics were also very different between the North and the South. The Southern slave owners dominated until 1860 when the North began rapid expansion, and more free territories entered. This meant more Northern n Senators and members of the House of Representatives. Two of the more direct causes of the Civil War were the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln as a republican , and the attack on Fort Sumter. Lincoln was elected to the White House on November 6, 1860. He did not support slavery, but maintained he had no intentions of banning it, mostly for fear of losing supporters. Fort Sumter was a fort controlled by Northerners, but located on Southern territory. Gen. P.G.T. Beauregarde and his troops filled Fort Sumter. It badly needed to be restocked. However, Lincoln’s military advisors warned against it for fear it might provoke the Southerner’s into firing. Lincoln decided to go ahead and restock, and let the Southerners take the first show so that it would go down in the record books that the South fired the first shot, and began the Civil War.

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