The main reason for Civil War was slavery, states’ rights, and sectionalism. North and South fought in the civil war because they both had different ideologies and beliefs over human’s rights and liberty as well as local and regional interests were different. The institutions of slavery go beyond economic and political differences because South and North were so different in terms of ideologies-cultural, economic and political that they just couldn’t coexist together. In the 1840s the religion has played an important role in separating north and south for example, ‘Methodists,’ ‘Presbyterians’ and Baptists had cracked into two regions because of their view over those who owned a slave. As southern part planned to develop the economic improvement …show more content…
Moreover, in 1852 a book called’ Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ was published over 300,000 copies were successfully sold in a year, which depicted the northern minds of that linked together the violence and slavery. The banning of Uncle Tom's cabin and other abolitionist books in developing a complex argument for pro-slavery that was advocated slavery as a positive public good it led to southern nationalism. Harriet Beacher Stowe was the author of the book that changed the perspective over slavery of northern part (Divine page 324-325). The civil war brought changes into the United States, slavery was freed, it became a superpower, the federal government expanded, and it developed, also the wealthy class was …show more content…
Additionally, the dispute over free land that America and Mexico had a separated conflict, before conquering Texas and New Mexico and California was defeated as well. One side stood on the fact that the free land should be decided only by white Americans, they should be used by farmers, and the farming industry should develop freely, and the slaves claimed that they had the same rights as other individuals. The border slave states and northern part tried to compromise a reconciliation of the sections; Lincoln led the Republicans in rejecting the proposed because this would let slavery to extend and to spread on Southwest (Divine page 345-347). To illustrate, the main cause of a Civil War in the United States became the sharpest contradictions between different socio-economic systems that existed in one state-the north and the slave-owning in the southern society. After Lincoln won the election, that was for the slave owners of the south a signal of danger and led to a secession - the withdrawal of the southern states from the Union. The first of the US at the end of December 1860 was South Carolina, in January 1861 followed by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, and in April-May - Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North