Issues of the American Civil War | Wikipedia audio article

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Issues of the American Civil War


00:01:14 1 Economic Issues
00:02:04 1.1 Regional economic differences
00:03:31 1.2 Tariffs
00:05:21 1.3 Free labor vs. pro-slavery arguments
00:06:06 1.4 Economic status of ex-slaves
00:06:38 2 States' rights issues
00:08:06 2.1 States' rights and slavery in the territories
00:09:11 2.2 States' rights and minority rights
00:11:14 3 Clarification of causes
00:12:54 4 Related issues
00:17:24 5 See also
00:17:44 6 Notes
00:17:53 7 Further reading



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Issues of the American Civil War include questions about the name of the war, the tariff, states' rights and the nature of Abraham Lincoln's war goals. For more on naming, see Naming the American Civil War.
The question of how important the tariff was in causing the war stems from the Nullification Crisis, which was South Carolina's attempt to nullify a tariff and lasted from 1828 to 1832. The tariff was low after 1846, and the tariff issue faded into the background by 1860 when secession began. States' rights was the justification for nullification and later secession. The most controversial right claimed by Southern states was the alleged right of Southerners to spread slavery into territories owned by the United States.
Under Lincoln's leadership, the war was fought to preserve the Union. With slavery so deeply divisive, Union leaders by 1862 reached the decision that slavery had to end in order for the Union to be restored. Union war evolved as the war progressed in response to political and military issues, and historians do not use them to explain the causes of the war. The key new issues were the elimination of slavery and the legal and economic status of the freed slaves.