The Causes of the Civil War So was the Civil War about slavery? Absolutely. If the discrepancy over the issue of slavery had never come about, the South would not have discerned threat to its culture and the southern politicians would not have been as likely to seek “their right to secede.” But was slavery the only basis of war? No. It was also about the constitutional disagreement over whether or not a state had …showed first 75 words of 2326 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2326 total…American Civilization, D.C. Heath and Company, Amherst College, 1961 Stampp, Kenneth M., The Causes of the Civil War, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1974. Stephens, Alexander H., “The War For States Rights,” as reprinted in Edwin C. Rozwenc, The Causes of the American Civil War, Problems in American Civilization, D.C. Heath and Company, Amherst College, 1961 Websites Election of 1860 http://members.tripod.com/~greatamericanhistory/gr02007.htm Kansas-Nebraska Act http://www.historyplace.com/licoln/kansas.htm