The Civil War pitted Americans against each other. The sectional divisions between the North and South caused tensions leading up to the Civil War, but the issue of slavery would ultimately lead to war. Tensions evolved between the North and South before the Civil War due to their difference in economic structure, and political views. Though these tensions caused discomfort between the two sides, the issue of slavery would push both sides to war in 1861. ... As historian Ted Alexander notes, in his essay on the causes of the civil war, "Beneath this great wealth and prosperity, America seeth...

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Causes of the Civil War Was slavery the only cause of the Civil War? ... Many historians say that slavery was the main issue of the Civil War. ... Like politics, economics, sectionalism, and the constitution, and that slavery was just the match that set the Civil War off. "Approximately 620,000 soldiers died during the Civil War. ... Grant, a prominent general in the Civil War had a slave (Jordon 12)". ...

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