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Question by tabbi
Submitted on 4/27/2004
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How did the Civil War start? (what actually happened to start the fighting?)

 
 

Answer by domgreco
Submitted on 4/29/2004
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The Civil War Started Because Of The Slavery Issues

 

Answer by bejlo
Submitted on 5/16/2004
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i think thats the civil war starred because every one could not agree on anything. take slavery IT was there because people didi not want to do work so they had slaves.And when we did it brought up a big comotion about how they dont leson and with other states and countries that is how i think the civil war started

 

Answer by dkhab
Submitted on 5/25/2004
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I think it started becaues the idustrial advancment

 

Answer by poop
Submitted on 6/1/2004
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i love cats

 

Answer by owlex
Submitted on 6/1/2004
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I believe the civil war began like this... The north and the south are fighting under president Lincoln. The south wants slaves and thinks they can survive on cotton crop and even actually has their own president, Davis, so they want to break off from the rest of the United States and become their own. So the battle begins to get them back and obeying the law. Lincoln calls it a war on the rebels who rebel against the flag. The famous generals involved are McCellan, for north, and Robert E. Lee, for south. Two famous battles are Antietam and Gettysburg. Im pretty sure this is correct.

 

Answer by ME
Submitted on 6/4/2004
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i think that the civil war started because of slavery and the south wanted it but the north didnt so they started the civil war!!!

 

Answer by wee-wee
Submitted on 6/6/2004
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my wee wee is big

 

Answer by bRiNk_1114
Submitted on 6/8/2004
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I think the Civil War started because of the slavery issue.  It was a very stupid reason to start a war over.  I'm mean yeah maybe slavery was wrong, but maybe instead or fighting they should have compromised.  but the Civil War could have also started because of the industrial head start that the North had and the south didn't.  Another stupid reason to fight, oh well you can't change history.  

 

Answer by sparkie
Submitted on 6/8/2004
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I think the civil war started because of seven

 

Answer by DixieRebel
Submitted on 6/19/2004
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as a historian I would like to point out that the war was not over slavery, General Grant himself stated that "If I was ever convinced that this war was over slavery, I would give up my sword and lend it to the other side", Thus even Unionists did not think highly of African Americans The war was started because of the South Carolinians firing on fort Sumpter. The confederate army had EVERY right to do this, mainly because Fort Sumpter was in South Carolina the union was wrong to occupy what was then Southern territory. The main reason the Southern states broke out of the Union was because all the Southern money was going to the Yankees up North.  In Short the Union may not be the good side after all, Hurrah for the Rebel flag!

 

Answer by history buff
Submitted on 7/4/2004
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The war started over comercial trade benifits.Confederate money was worth less on exchange in the north, & visa-versa. Large enterprises couldn't come upon a fair trade agreement as to the exchange rate for their currency. Most enterprises wouldn't even trade at all outside their own territory. But, as for the slavery issue, both the north,& the south continued to own slaves until the emancipation proclamation was declared by president Lincoln well after the start of the civil war. The real issue, like most things in this world, was money, & control.

 

Answer by BaBy_gUrL_05
Submitted on 7/6/2004
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I think the civil war started because of slavery.The North and south fought over slavery because the were lazy and didn't want o do any thing. So when president Lincoln wanted to free the slaves the north and south got angry and wanted to fight over slavery so thats why i think the civil war started.

 

Answer by SmartyGurl04
Submitted on 7/6/2004
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i think that the civil war started because of mostly slavery.But slavery was only in the south. The north wasn't really wanting to stop slavery they wanted it to not spread to the north. Slavery was how the south survived. so the north wanted to end slavery BECAUSE they didn't want the freed slaves to come to the north and take all there jobs and wealth.  

 

Answer by JAMESDARLACK
Submitted on 7/8/2004
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I WASN'T THERE , BUT KNOW THAT THE UNION HAD
SLAVE STATES. ALSO , UNION GENERALS TRAVELED
WITH THIER OWN SLAVES, YES , UNION ( NORTH ).
SLAVERY WAS USED TO EMBARRASS THE FRENCH, BY THE NORTH OVER 2 YEARS INTO THE WAR WHICH
WERE HELPING THE SOUTH WIN THE WAR .

 

Answer by History
Submitted on 7/11/2004
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You all need to go back to school

http://elephantrants.blogs.com/elephant_rants/2004/02/

 

Answer by Jazza
Submitted on 7/12/2004
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Ok. Here we go.

Why did the civil war start? Because the American constitution was unclear. It supported the rights of states and safeguarded these but did not detail if a state could secede. The South, culturally, economically and in some cases even ethnically different to the North, saw an implied right to secede. This is what historians refer to as 'secessionitis'.

Slavery is a tiny element. It is important because it was one of the many factors that differentiated the Union from the Confederacy. It is important because Lincoln barely clung on to power in the election of 1864 against the Democratic candidate, who was in favour of an armistice with the Confederates. It was because of this that Lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation in order to rally support, not only among the Afro-Americans in the North, but in each Confederate territory that they subsequently conquered.

The Missouri compromise, as far as a history of slavery is concerned is quite important, but as far the US Civil War is concerned, it is not.

My advice to the majority of you, who I assume to be Americans, is to read a modern history or two of the US Civil War, not rely on what you were taught in a school and certainly not to rely on what you overhear.

 

Answer by WEEZER
Submitted on 7/13/2004
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It's a shame that history can't be told
as it happened . It all depends on your  
schools and thier books . College depends
on your professors and thier ideas which
mold a young mind . If a farmer paid $20,000 for a  
tractor , why would he beat
it and let it rust or not change the oil ?
Same goes for (slave) owners . Why take their investments  and destroy them ? Nobody was at the time worried about  slavery in the North or South . Slaves were sold by African tribes to European traders .Blame the Brother .    

 

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