Slavery Although some historians feel that the Civil War was a result of political blunders and that the issue of slavery did not cause the conflict, this interpretation fails to consider the two main causes of the war itself: ·the expansion of slavery, and ·its entrance into the political scene. In the south slaves made up the labor force to work on the cotton fields. Growing cotton requires a very large number of workers and …showed first 75 words of 244 total…

…showed last 75 words of 244 total…were not allowed to leave the plantation, If they did, they were punished very hard. Very often even families were split up at sales. Just imagine that your father, mother or brother would be sold and you would not be able to see them anymore. A horrible experience! As the northern states were against slavery and intended to abolish it, the South wanted to split from the North and that's why the civil war started.