What Was The Cause Of The Civil War?

The cause of the civil war began because of the division between the northern states and the southern states in regards to the rights of blacks; the owning of slaves; and the economic ties of the north and south.
Many whites did not see blacks as equals. According to Waldo E. Martin, "White Americans were unable to see blacks as Americans like themselves, entitled to the rights and responsibilities of citizenships." In 1857, A Missouri slave, Dred Scott argued with the Supreme Court that because he lived as a free man on free soil for a number of years that he was considered a free man. The Supreme Court stated "blacks possessed no rights which the White man was bound to respect".
"The unsettled question of whether or not the nation could continue