Part 1 of Essay
History question: Historians have long debated the cause of the Civil War. Was Slavery the cause of the war? or economic differences? or Constitutional differences? Prove that it was a combination of all three. During the time around 1850, tensions were rising on the issue of slavery between the North and the South. ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... compromise showed just how important slavery was to each side, and it gives us a good idea of why it could be important as one of their goals during the Civil War. With slavery in mind, it brought about ideas of succession to the South. Because the South was scared of Lincoln abolishing slavery, they thought it would be a wise decision to secede from the Union. In fact, Lincoln had no plans of abolishing slavery, but stated that it should not spread to the territories. The South, basically misunderstood, and ....