what are some causes of the civil war?
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There are 4 primary causes of the US civil war (I'm assuming this is the one you want).\n\n1.  federalism--favouring a strong centralized government as opposed to strong state governments.\n2.  slavery\n3. expansionism--extending control into new territory\n4.  sectionalism--blind focus on the interest of a section or region instead of the whole.
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It was one of the contributory causes. The North wanted to weaken the institution while the South wanted to preserve it. The South believed that President Lincoln intended to end it contributing to secession. \n\nLincoln initially declared his purpose to be the preservation of the Union, not emancipation. He had no wish to alienate the thousands of slaveholders in the Union border states, some of whom stayed loyal. The long war radicalised the Governments policy. With the Emancipation Proclamation, announced in September 1862 and put into effect four months later, Lincoln adopted the abolition of the Slave Power as a second mission—that is slaves owned by rebels had to be taken away from them and freed.
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try:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
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By your question I can tell you have no idea why the War of Northern Aggression (aka Civil War) was fought. In actuality only the north and mainly Lincoln made it a racial war. Lincoln had to have a reason for fighting his war because he had lost his biggest asset for running the government and the North was rapidly going into a depression without the tax money from the South. Lincoln provoked the war to bring back the southern states to regain the taxes he had lost with the succession of the south by putting more and more troops into Ft. Sumter against the demands of the Confederacy not to do so. President Davis sent several emissaries to Washington requesting no additional troops or arms into the fort or the Confederacy would consider it an aggressive act of war and fire. Lincoln put more troops and arms in and the Confederacy fired.\n\nIf you go to the South today you will find in almost every state that there is not a reestablishment of racial supremacy by the whites, On the contrary, especially in Mississippi the blacks are taking over city governments rapidly and most do not make any bones about it they want the whites out. I heard this myself while in MS last year during mayoral races when one black mayoral canadate said if elected she would do all she could to drive the whites out of her city. She won the vote.\n\nNow before any blacks get upset and start calling me names, I have nothing against blacks in any way. I have a number of very good friends who are black and have a cousin in the my family who is black. I consider all people equal unless an individual person creates a situation that should not be tolerated by anyone.
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Many people believe that the only reason the Civil War was fought was because of slavery. In reality, though, the War's principal reason for starting was because many southerners did not agree that men who lived hundreds of miles away had the right to dictate their way of life (back then, the distance from D.C. to Georgia or South Carolina made them seem like seperate countries-no airplanes). To most people, the Confederate flag represents racism for that very reason. My great-great-great grandaddy died wearing a Confederate uniform, and by reading his journals, I understand why he chose to do so. My family never owned slaves-we were dirt poor in the 1800's-, but he honestly believed in states rights, and that a federal government had no right to decide what was right or wrong for him. I don't care that the South lost the war-it was almost 150 years ago! But like the great General Lee said of the men who served the Confederacy: They gave more than they were asked to give, and they gave it without complaint. That's enough for me-I'll always show respect to the Confederate flag, and honor the men who died under it, fighting for something they believed in.
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The Citizens of one county fighting each other.\nThere was a huge Civil War in the USA - Citizens from the North fought the Citizens from the South - with a tremendous loss of life.  Most of the men fighting and dying do not really understand what they are fighting for.
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You can get information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_%281849-1865%29 for the information you are looking for.  I wont do your homework - but I will help you out (what kind of a history teacher would be then - lol)\n\nGood Luck!!!
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The Battle of Franklin- it broke the back of the Confederacy and allowed the Union to gain the upper hand and concerted on one front.\n\nThe reelection of Lincoln- If he had not been reelected General McClellan would have sued for peace.\n\nThe Battle of Five Forks it allowed Petersburg to fall and made Lee leave the trenches.\n\nThe failure of France and England to intercede on behalf of the South, like Iraqi the wealthiest 10 % of the population cause and keep the war going, the South were winning to give up slavery but not with someone demanding it.\n\nThe technology advancements such as the submarine, rifled muskets, balloonist, telegraph which coincides with the loss of manpower in the South forcing after the War innovations to improve labor.\n\nGod Bless You and The Southern People.
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The immediate cause of the U.S. civil war was the attack on Fort Sumter by South Carolina. This action was all Abraham Lincoln needed in order to call for 75,000 men to help restore the Union.\n\nThe events leading up to the war all surround the institution of slavery. The northern states had abolished slavery, and were becoming more industrialized. The southern states, however, remained dependent on agriculture. Both sides were getting along fine until U.S. territories wanted to become states. The question of whether or not new states should be allowed to join the union as slave or non slave states became a heated debate. The northern states wanted all new states entering the union to be non slave, while the southern states thought they should be able to coose for themselves. \n\nMany people believe that the U.S. Civil War was nothing more than a war over slavery, but this is not true. The war was fought over state's rights. If the federal government could tell a state that it couldn't allow slavery, what else could they take away. The Constitution of the United States puts anything not expressly mentioned in the Bill of Rights up to the state's to determine what is best for the state. It was not until 1863, two years into the war, until Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Most people believe that this freed all the slaves, but again they are wrong. It only freed the slaves in the states who were fighting against the Union. It did nothing to free the slaves in the border states like Maryland or Missouri.
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i would recommend this wikipedia site.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_war\n\nhope this helps =)\n\n-unpredicktaboh-
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There was no need for the Civil War, because in the end we were fighting ourselves. Our brothers in arms. The North and South were no different than each other, and they were just people with the same idea, but with different course of actions. It was the lack of leadership that caused the civil war. Something could have been worked out, as it says in the quote."it was the result of extremism and failures of leadership on both sides." Just means that everyone on both sides was so stuck up in their own ideas and were narrow minded to the other side, thinking they were the only one that was right. If they sat down and tried to compromise. Thats a big word in politics, COMPROMISE, the civil war would never have happened. \n\nLeadership is not on the ability to lead during crisis, its the ability to follow and have the ability to compromise as well. A good leader is a good follower and listener, and able to maintain his people in times of hardship and peace.
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www.usa-civil-war.com
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That's a huge question.  You should do some research on causes of the Civil War - there are plenty of children's, students', and young adult books concerning the topic.\n\nTrying to be brief here... The Lincoln/Northern view was that the United States is a union first and a confederation second - in other words, once you're in the Union, you can't back out, otherwise the very strength of the Union, of the United States, is undermined.  If Lincoln had just said, "Oh, heck with it!  Good luck to you Southern states!", it would have made it difficult if not impossible to keep any other state from seceding for any reason whatsoever.  Lincoln and the North pressed the war in order to preserve the Union and establish the supremacy of nationhood over statehood.\n\nBesides, historians and economists in years since have speculated that, in time, the South and North would probably have reunited in some way anyway, as both regions would have had a mutual interest.
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The main underlying cause for the Civil War was the freedom of states, and the rights of the states granted under the US Constitution, which by the way does not state that succession is illegal orr forbidden.  The powers of the Federal government are stated clearly in the Constitution, and any powers not specifically granted to the federal government are the responsibilities of the states.  Slavery did not become an issue until 1863 when the United States President Lincoln freed the slaves in a forgien country to keep France and Britian out of the war.  Odds are they would not have done anything to really help the South's war effort, but it was a good political move on Lincoln's behalf.
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I would like to tell Lincoln not to deliberately start the civil war by senting a resupply ship to Ft. Sumter, because he knew this would provoke the South to  fire on Ft. Sumter. this would have saved 600,000 lives, then to use his negotiating skills to work out a solution to the problems of the time.The south would be alot better off today, because if you live in the south, black or white ,you have suffered ever since the civil war, the federal government not sending the funds to the southern schools, for example in 1867, two years after the civil war, the state of georgia reciieved like 13000 in federal funds and the state of michigan recieved like 18 million.What the south has today, is what the South has built itself. the federal government did not help rebuild the south like it did Germany and Japan after world war 2. this is why the southern states are like 30 to 40 years behind the their northern counterparts. the south suffered the most damage from the war (Atlanta burned to the ground,etc.) and recieved nothing to help rebuild it. So Black or White , if you live in the south ,you are still paying for that war that happened over 140 years ago.
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What aspect of the Civil War do you want facts about? The causes, battles, leaders, industry? You should be a little more specific with your question.
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There are so many. The signing of the Constitution of course, but if the Union hadn't won the Civil War, things would definitely be different. Those are the ones I thought of right away.