Causes of The Civil War

There are a many principles that caused the Civil War. A few examples are the economical crash and the speeches given by both abolitionists and sociologists. As a result, Congress made various compromises to keep the Union together.

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Although there were many sociologists, there were also abolitionists such as Senator Charles Sumner who delivered speeches against pro-slavery men. As a result of Sumner’s speech“ The Crime against Kansas”, Preston Brooks, a member of the House of Representatives charged into Sumners chambers and beat him with a cane for insulting South Carolina and Senator Andrew Butler. Another speech that also had a huge effect on the Civil War was delivered by an African American abolitionist  Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1952. Douglass stated, “Your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns,... are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy.” This was an offensive statement that offended Southerners and slaveholders, causing more tension between the North and the South.

The economical crisis is a clear example of one of the reasons that caused the Civil War. In 1828, a new conflict on economy arose between the North and the South. The issue of tariffs almost tore the United States apart. The South had little industry and it bought many manufactured goods from Europe or from the protected Northern businesses. This made the South feel overcharged and cheated. When high protective tariffs were passed by Congress, an issue was raised about states’ rights. After many threats and debates occurred, a bill with lower tariffs was finally passed, and another compromise was made to keep the country together.

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One of the examples that the Congress did to keep the Union as a whole were the various compromises the Union made to keep the North and the South relatively calm. Congress did this to keep the balance between slave and free states, as it had to be maintained. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787, for example, was devised to exclude slavery from the area north of the Ohio River, and slaveholders moved west to new Southern states like Alabama and Mississippi. In 1820, a compromise called the Missouri Compromise was made by Congress to solve another crisis that came up by admitting Maine to the Union as a free state.

Although the Civil War took 4 years to finally end and caused many deaths and injuries, it also freed thousands of African Americans from slavery and brought equality between the Whites and the African race.