The Main Cause of the Civil War
The main cause of the Civil War started because the south felt like they were losing control of slavery which was the central conflict cause of the war, from the north in the United States. The south knew slavery was necessary for the economy and production to keep growing. Abolitionists and the Free Soil Party which formed into the Republican party and it was the first party committed to ending slavery throughout the United States because the south wanted to expand slavery. Most northerners knew that expansion of slavery would take more jobs away from white Americans.
Cotton starting becoming the primary chief commercial crop in the south over tobacco, primarily in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas. The United States was now producing two-thirds of the world cotton. Nine new slave states entered between 1789-1860, by 1850 there were 3.2 million slaves in the country living in the fifteen slave states and 1.8 million slaves were producing cotton. In 1860 the slaves produced over two billion pounds of cotton per year. With economics and production going well South Carolinian politician James Hammond claimed …show more content…
Several democrats and whigs formed a new party the “Free Soil Party,” they believed that slaveholders were controlling foreign affairs and domestic policies that would try to expand slavery throughout the nation. The Free Soil party lost their first election, the whigs won the presidential election of 1848 general Zach Taylor was nominated president, Taylor was a slaveholder. The Compromise of 1850 occurred when California was announced a free state, there was more free states than slave states now. The democratic party advocated popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah which will be decided by the people whether the states will be free states or slave states. (History 1700 187,
The main cause of the Civil War started because the south felt like they were losing control of slavery which was the central conflict cause of the war, from the north in the United States. The south knew slavery was necessary for the economy and production to keep growing. Abolitionists and the Free Soil Party which formed into the Republican party and it was the first party committed to ending slavery throughout the United States because the south wanted to expand slavery. Most northerners knew that expansion of slavery would take more jobs away from white Americans.
Cotton starting becoming the primary chief commercial crop in the south over tobacco, primarily in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas. The United States was now producing two-thirds of the world cotton. Nine new slave states entered between 1789-1860, by 1850 there were 3.2 million slaves in the country living in the fifteen slave states and 1.8 million slaves were producing cotton. In 1860 the slaves produced over two billion pounds of cotton per year. With economics and production going well South Carolinian politician James Hammond claimed …show more content…
Several democrats and whigs formed a new party the “Free Soil Party,” they believed that slaveholders were controlling foreign affairs and domestic policies that would try to expand slavery throughout the nation. The Free Soil party lost their first election, the whigs won the presidential election of 1848 general Zach Taylor was nominated president, Taylor was a slaveholder. The Compromise of 1850 occurred when California was announced a free state, there was more free states than slave states now. The democratic party advocated popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah which will be decided by the people whether the states will be free states or slave states. (History 1700 187,