THE CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR

THE CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR

The causes of the civil war can be directly linked to the resistance of the slave to their own enslavement . This agitation for freedom and emancipation all started in the 18th century the Quakers and a few other whites opposed the ideals of slavery . During the 1820s and 1830s a considerable amount of Middle-class Northerners began the agitation for the immediate emancipation of slaves . In 1835 , various amounts of literatures that contained anti-slavery agitations were sent through mails , white Americans viewed this literature as being detrimental

to the union of America (Johnson Woloch , 2007 . Then in 1836 , black abolitionists sent hundreds of petitions to the congress that were mainly based on the abolishment of slavery (Johnson Woloch , 2007 The defenders of slavery believed that the abolitionists and their followers were threats to the course of the race and social security the abolitionists on the other hand believed that the defense of slavery was an assault on their fundamental human rights which include their rights of speech and petition . Hence , the defenders of slavery and the agitators for the emancipation of slaves (abolitionists ) were always at loggerheads with one another . These irreconcilable differences fuelled the crisis that developed into the civil war

By the middle of 1850 , the status quo of the old American political system was already shattered . An antislavery party took control of the white house when it elected the revered Abraham Lincoln as president of the United States of America in 1860...