Primary_Cause_Of_The_Civil_War

Primary Cause Of The Civil War The statement, “The issue of states’ rights was the primary cause of the Civil War”, can be backed up by many facts, but can be linked back to a much a larger cause of the Civil War that begun in 1861. Other causes of the Civil War were sectionalism; which consisted of sectional interests and cultures; each region’s perceptions of the other’s intentions and the expansion of slavery. All these causes can also be linked back and are directly related to the peculiar institution of slavery. Thus, leading me to believe that slavery was the main overall cause of the Civil War, but looking more into slavery itself, the expansion of slavery was the primary cause, for the Southern states seceded as soon as Abraham Lincoln was elected President. Lincoln wanted to strip the right of new territories and states to decide on their own on the issue of slavery. A quote from the passage “Where Historians Disagree” in the textbook by James Ford Rhodes states, “if the Negro had not been brought to America, the Civil war could not have occurred” (p. 377 American History: A Survey), rings true in my ears. There could have been differences between the slavery, north, war, south, states, civil, wanted, lincoln, cause, southern, expansion, territories, government, slaves, slave, president, northern, new, each, because, back, work, view, states’, right, primary, one, national, two, time, themselves, state, southerners, should, own, much