Because Lincoln was elected on a ticket of no new slave-states. This meant that the South would always be outvoted in Congress. So they broke away.
Three Proximate Causes of the Civil War are John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry, Lincoln's Election, and the Secession of the Confederate States.
The main causes of surrender during the American Civil War are the same reason for surrender in any other war,... one side overwhelms the other.
Tariffs, state's rights, slavery, and cultural differences.
The American Flag could be considered the symbol of the Union.
True. Slavery had very little or nothing to do with the reasons for the American civil war.
Tariffs, culture, Lincoln's election, state's rights, and slavery.
The American Civil War
Three Proximate Causes of the Civil War are John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry, Lincoln's Election, and the Secession of the Confederate States.
This was the election which set stage for the American Civil War. Abraham Lincoln was the president-elect from the 1860 election.
Causes of industrial growth after the Civil War were an increase in the steel industry and the growth of railroads.
The main causes of surrender during the American Civil War are the same reason for surrender in any other war,... one side overwhelms the other.
It started because the south was unhappy with the election and the north and south dsagred on slavery.
landmarks in american history
Slavery, state's rights, cultural differences, and tariffs.
Tariffs, state's rights, slavery, and cultural differences.
No. The root causes of the American Civil War were economic (taxation) and political (states' rights).
By some but not all.