Causes_of_the_Civil_War

Causes of the Civil War The Civil War, the darkest time in our culture. Between the years of 1861 and 1865 six hundred thousand Americans lost their lives. It may seem that they died in vain because even today we are still fighting racism, or was that not why the war was fought' In fact, the war had many reasons for its occurrence, including political, economical, cultural, racial, expansion, and slavery. Every one of these issues had a big factor in the occurrence of the Civil War. So to fully understand the causes we must step back three hundred and eighty years when the Civil War first started to take shape. The beginning of slavery in North America occurred in 1619 when the first 20 African blacks where brought to English North America. They arrived on a Dutch ship and were sold at Jamestown. Records after this time are sketchy to point out whether these were really slaves or not, but by the 1660s local statutes had firmly established the institution in Virginia and Maryland. Throughout the next hundred years, slavery grew not only in the North but also in the South. With every new state came south, slavery, new, slave, north, war, mexico, 1861, texas, state, 1860, union, slaves, free, however, states, fort, america, civil, time, party, even, compromise, president, one, missouri, lincoln, jackson, two, territories, great, democratic, cotton, came, been, though, settlers, population, now, john, first, during, constitution, started, presidency, people, over, northern, made, factories