What Caused The Civil War?
No one thing can be blamed for the Civil War. Instead of one thing causing the war it was years of built up hostilities leading to the war. A common misconception about the war is that it was over slavery, the north wanted to get rid of it the south didn't. That couldn’t be farther from the truth; in fact Lincoln signed a Resolution saying that the war wasn’t to interfere with slavery at all.

The Civil War was fought because the Southern slave states wanted to secede from the United States and create their own country. What caused the Southern states to want to secede? The political balance was equal with half slave states and half non-slave states, the problem is the territories. When the North wanted to make the territories non-slave states, the South got really mad and wouldn’t stand for it. This started the war, true the war wouldn’t have happened without slavery, but it was more than slavery alone.

The South knew that slavery would eventually die off on it’s own, but the South believed that if the North got to much political leverage on them choices might be made that would be bad for the South. The North and the South had such vastly different cultures that the South believed if the north gained to much political power then North would make choices that would only benefit Northerners not the South. To be trusted to make important decisions the South believed either the power must be balanced or in their favor.

America’s involvement in this war was unavoidable. If the Union didn’t go to war with the Confederacy then the United States would have broken up in too separate pieces. This war could not have been avoided. The war was of course tragic costing more American lives than any other in history, but it was necessary. If the United States were to have broken than neither half would be as strong as it is today.

In conclusion no judgment can be made to whether or not the great loss of life was worth it. After all it kept the United States as the United States and freed the slaves. But how can we know that we’re so much better off united? What did the end of slavery do after all? Even Southerners admitted slavery was doomed to end, and it didn’t help end racism in the least. I believe the loss of life was worth it. Not to keep the Union whole but because it freed the slaves, no man is meant to be kept under grips or ripped and tormented; instead we are meant to be free. To direct our own lives as we feel fit, not healing to once to serve another man.