Civil War
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Many times an individual will be heard declaring that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. Abraham Lincoln is stated as being against slavery and representing the North, while leaders in the South, like Jefferson Davis, wanted to preserve slavery. Both of them used their individual interpretation of the Declaration of Independence to justify their views. Lincoln and the North and the slaves won, while the South lost. In actuality, while this scenario is partially correct, there were a host of other issues that represent causes or catalysts of the Civil War. These cause span the economic, political and social dimensions of America during the middle nineteenth century. In fact, Lincoln declared he would not abolish slavery, if elected President, in areas where it already existed. He was against allowing it in expansion territories and did feel it was unjust according to the Declaration of Independence. However, many other issues were involved. The heavily agricultural South, spurred on to great economic growth by the introduction of the Cotton Gin, was in direct conflict with the industrially burgeoning North. The South preferred to buy their merchandise from overseas because it was cheaper, and the North slapped high tariffs on imported goods. Of course, the high profit margins in the South were due to the institution of slavery, wherein slaves were personal property owned by plantation owners who used their free
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f their prized possession (free slave labor), Lincoln was determined no state had a right to secede from the Union, “In what could be called miscommunication now, the Southern states decided to seceded because of the imagined threat to their slaveholdings. South Carolina led the way, seceding on December 20, 1860. During the next six weeks Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas and the rest of the slave states seceded as well. They all seceded before Lincoln had even been inaugurated! During his annual address, Lincoln said that, ‘the Union of these states is perpetual.’ No state, he declared, could lawfully leave the Union” (They 2).
In one way, the slaves were also responsible as a cause of the Civil War, but not from the economic perspective of the Southern plantation owners or because of the views that slavery was unjust on behalf of Northerners. In fact, the slaves were responsible themselves because of their resistance to the institution of slavery. While the South had been appeased to some degree through various government legislation like the Dred-Scot decision, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Fugitive Slave Laws, abolitionists like Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and David Wilmot were ef
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