Political Causes Of The Civil War

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KAP History Causes of the Civil War. 01/14/13 Robert Allen People all have different reasons why they believe the civil war was started so I’m going to give the political, economical, and social reasons why I think it happened. Political reasons for the civil war. The first political reason for the civil war was that the southern states of the U.S.A wanted each state more sovereign than the federation, or confederacy. Another political reason was that the South wanted to protect their rights to own slaves. Since the south used the slaves to pick their cotton which was 50% of the money income they didn’t agree with ending slavery. The third thing was the increasing number of free blacks contributing to the political reasons. The population
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