What+caused+the+Civil+War?+-B.H.

 __The Civil War __ Even to this day Historians are confused on what actually started the Civil War. Well, there are countless things that started the war not just one event. Some think it was caused from the Missouri Compromise, or the 1850 Compromise and numerous things such as, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Panic of 1857, Firing on Ft. Sumter, Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), Dred Scott Case (1857), Sumner Caning (1856). The main reason the Civil War was started was because of the Election of 1860, which led to the Secession of the Southern States the same year.  The Election of 1860 played a vast part in beginning the Civil War. After Lincoln won the election; about a month after entering the white house the Southern States seceded from the Union because Lincoln was a Republican president. The South felt that now that there was a Republican president and they would have no say in the government, at the time the entire south was Democrat. Therefore the South secedes from the union. The question also came up that if the states had the right to break away from the union or not. The secede of the Southern states caused the Secession of the Southern States the same year.   The Secession of Southern States was caused by a Republican president being elected. The southern states were now convinced that the Republican president wouldn't fulfill their rights of happiness and such. However it was still there right to assist the nation when in danger.   The Civil War was caused by the election of 1860 which led to the Secession of Southern States. Still the Historians will still argue and try to find evidence to prove there points, nevertheless it was the election of 1860 and the Secession of the Southern States that caused the Civil War. 