The Causes Of The Civil War: Slavery, Economics, Or Constitutional Differences

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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 decided to secede
anyway. The reason slavery was so important to the South, and lead them to
break apart from the Union was that it tied into their lifestyle and
economy.
The South had wanted a plantation lifestyle, where the owner could
relax and supervise his workers. Also, slavery was very important to their
economy because if their were no slaves, the owners would not be able to
pay more money for regular workers. This would eventually lead to giving
up property worth many millions of dollars. Cotton was the South's cash
crop, and for some states, their only crop, and to greatly reduce the
production, their economy would go down. So the South had one more ...

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