Civil War Essay

        The Civil War, from 1861 to 1865, was a civil war in the United States of America. It was fought between the Confederacy and the Union; the slave states versus the free states and border slaves states respectively. Although territorial expansion was one of the main causes of the Civil War, it was not the sole main cause. Slavery also played a role in causing tension and eventually catalyzing the Civil War. Overall, slavery was the greater of the two causes of the Civil War.

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        One of the main causes of the Civil War was the threat of territorial expansion. By itself, without the presence of slavery, one could reasonably assume there would have been virtually no problems between the North and South involving territorial expansion because as a whole nation, nearly everyone, meaning the white people, wanted more land because the original thirteen states were becoming extremely crowded. This is how the whole concept of Manifest Destiny came about in the early 1800’s, where there was the belief that the United States was destined to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

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