Major Causes of the Civil War

The “War Between Brothers”, “The Gray and the Blue“, “a nation torn apart“; these and many other catch phrases remind people of the gruesome, and often said to be the worst, war in United States history, the Civil War. The Civil War was the war fought from 1861 through 1865, between the Northern, Union States and the self declared, Southern, Confederate States. This was often referred to as the war over slavery as the main cause of it was, in fact, slavery. This also led the second cause of the Civil War, which was the issue of states rights. Both of these issues were just as important as the other, and were the basis of the war that almost brought the most powerful present-day nation crumbling to the ground.
Slavery had been a great controversy since Biblical times, and until the Civil War, was used in many regions of the world. Slavery was the main cause of the Civil War and was legal in the South, but illegal in the North. The North had an economy based on in...