Civil War Causes

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The one real cause of the civil war was slavery, but there were three other pseudo-causes of the Civil war that are dependent on slavery.
The cause of the civil war was slavery because with just slavery the war would have happened anyway. If we put the three other causes in the same trial, it would not cause the war.These causes are tariffs,states rights, and sectionalism, and they are dependent on slavery.

First on our list, the tariffs were dependent to slavery because slavery made the south an able competitor. Tariffs were created because the north wanted to get their competitors(the south) out of business by putting tariffs on import items, so the south would not be able to compete with them.Why was the South able to compete with the

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