What problems the led to the US Civil War?

Answer 1

1) Disagreements over the American Mexican war. 2) The slave states disagreements with President Lincoln's attempt to limit slavery. 3) The southern state's beliefs in the State's rights of autonomy in the face of the ever increasing size of the Federal government.

Answer 2

even though slavery was a big part of the war there were also other causes that caused the war like the economic and social differences between the north and the south, states versus federal rights, and the election of Abraham Lincoln where seven states seceded from the union because they thought he was anti-slavery and he was in favor of northern rights.

The driving force behind the Civil War was, at the root, all about Economics and Power. The change of the North's economy from one of merchants, small-scale manufacturing, and small farming to one primarily based on the trade of mass-manufactured goods was contrasted with the South's desire to retain it's existing mass-slave-labor large plantation farming system.

As the North gained wealth via trade and manufacturing, it moved to a society where education and money were the determination of social status. The South remained a primarily aristocratic society. These two societies frequently clashed over manners and social standards.

However, the fundamental economics dictated that the North's increasing wealth and population shifted the power away from the South, which began to feel slighted as the North's culture increasingly failed to consider Southern desires. Faced with slowing losing power and relevance in the Union, the South had three choices: change its existing social and economic cultures to better compete with the North, try to carve out legal power retention (i.e change the allocation of power inside the Union to no longer favor the North's wealth and population advantages), or leave. Initially, the South chose the second option; when that increasingly failed, they chose to leave.

The North's new-found abolitionist fever felt like a final straw to the South - since abolitionism had little impact on Northern culture or power, whereas slavery was a foundational institution of Southern society. Slavery was the key area of conflict between the two - however, one has to remember why slavery was so important to the South.

Answer 3

Slavery.