The document examines the main causes of the Civil War: economic, political, and social. Economically, the North and South had disparities due to different economies, and slavery was central to the Southern economy. Politically, tensions arose from states' rights versus federal authority, sectionalism as the North and South defended their interests, and Lincoln's election. Socially, disagreements over slavery and states' rights regarding slaves, religious beliefs, and the role of slavery in the Southern way of life contributed to divisions.

1. A way to examine the real causes of the Civil War

2. Introduction
The Civil War was a devastating conflict
that occurred in the United States from
1861 to 1865. It was fought between the
North (Union) and the South
(Confederacy) over issues such as
slavery, states' rights, and economic
differences. The war ended with the
Union's victory and the abolition of
slavery. The conflict resulted in
significant loss of life and left a lasting
impact on the nation, leading to
important societal and political changes.

3. Economic
Slavery and other
interests sparked
economic tensions and
fueled the Civil War in the
United States.
Political
Slavery, states' rights, and
sectional tensions over power
and representation fueled the
conflict.
Social
Disagreements over slavery's
expansion, racial tensions, and
cultural differences heightened
divisions and contributed to
conflict.
Main areas that cause the CIvil war

4. Economic Causes
1. Economic disparity
2. Slavery (Industrial
production)

5. Between North and south there is an
economic disparity, Southern states had
an advantage because they survived by
sowing things like corn, weed, etc. On
the other hand the north survived by
cash crops.
Therefor there was a huge economic
disparity between north and south.
Economic disparity

6. Political Causes
1. States’ rights vs. Federal authority
2. Sectionalism
3. Election of Abraham Lincoln

7. States’ rights v. Federal authority
States’ rights Federal authority
Sovereignty
Balance of power
Resistance to
abolitionism
Defense of slavery
Weakening social
unity
Potential for abuse
National unity
Protection of civil
rights
Diplomacy and
foreign policy
Overreach and
centralization
Failure to address
secession and
slavery
Fugitive Slave act
of 1850

8. Sectionalism
Regional loyalty: Political parties:
Values
Disputes over territories
People in the North and
South associated with
their respective regions
rather than the nation as
a whole, resulting in
different political
objectives and interests.
Political representation
and power battles within
the federal government
were impacted by
sectional divides.
Through legislation and
policy, each area sought
to defend and advance its
own interests.
Sectional tensions increased when the
United States expanded into new
territories, with both sides fighting for
power and attempting to influence the
status of slavery in these areas.
Having different ideas was a
problem that defined their values.
These were different and each
society decided what is good or
bad. All this ended in sectionalism.

9. Election of Abraham Lincoln
- Lincoln's victory lead
Southerners to make
movements of secession.
- Formation of the
confederacy made by the
seceded states.
- Southerners were scared
of their future.
- Fort Sumter.

10. Social causes
1. State rights against slaves
2. Religious beliefs
3. Slavery

11. The southerners believed that the
government had no right to interfere with
slaves, this was used as an excuse to own
slaves as part from their property.
State rights against
slaves

12. Many white southerners
believed that the bible
supported slavery being a
factor to support their
opinion, meanwhile some
northerners believed that
on the face of god slaves
were equal to the white.
Religious beliefs

13. Slavery
Slavery in that time was a very
common thing, every one had
slaves, Southerners consider
slavery a cause of the civil war
because it is believed that slavery
was their central part of their
economy and way of living. Being
an important key for their survival.

14. TIMELINE
Nat Turner
Nat Turner's slave rebellion in Virginia
increases tensions between
abolitionists and slaveholders.
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 is passed,
admitting California as a free state, but
strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act,
creating further tensions between
North and South.
Kansas-Nebraska act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act is passed,
allowing popular sovereignty to decide
whether slavery would be allowed in
Kansas and Nebraska, leading to
"Bleeding Kansas" and increased
violence.
The Dred Scott v.
Sandford
The Dred Scott v. Sandford Supreme Court
decision rules that slaves are property and
not citizens, intensifying divisions between
pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions.
Constitution
The Constitution is written and
adopted, but it compromises on the
issue of slavery, counting slaves as
three-fifths of a person for
representation purposes.
1787 1831 1850 1854 1857 1860
States’ rights vs Federal
authority
Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, is elected
President, and Southern states begin
seceding from the Union in response.

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