Slavery as a Cause

     Many people believe that slavery was the main cause of the Civil war.  However, this is not true.  The primary cause was the fact that the southern states where succeeding from the Union.  One of the reasons the southern states where succeeding was the great division between the north and south over slavery.  Because of that slavery is still a reason, just not the primary reason for the war.
     Another way slavery impacted the war was moral cause.  It drove both the south and the north into battle.  Both sides believed that they were doing the right thing to do with slavery.  Most northern soldiers believed that it was the proper thing to do to attempt to free those enslaved in the south.  Most southerners, on other hand believed, either for personal gain or for true belief in slavery, that keeping Negros in slavery would be the best thing to do.  Slavery drove both sides to fight harder.