Why Did the Civil War Begin?

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The Civil War began because southern land owners objected to the United States movement to ban slavery. The southern states who depended on slavery to maintain their lands chose to secede from the States rather then free their slaves. When the United States government challenged their right to succession it lead to the Civil War.
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American Civil War (1861-1865)
The Civil War was the culmination of four decades of intense sectional conflict and reflected deep-seated economic, social, and political differences between the North and the South. The South, overwhelmingly agricultural, produced cash crops—cotton…
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