Why Slavery Had Such a Big Impact on the Cause of the Civil War

The Civil War was fought only because the North was opposed to slavery and the South was in favor of it. I believe that the Civil War was fought only because of slavery. The North and South had disagreements on almost everything, but the biggest thing they disagreed on was slavery. The American Revolution had been fought to validate the idea that all men were created equal, yet slavery was legal in all of the thirteen colonies throughout the revolutionary period. Although it was largely gone from the northern states by 1787, it was still enshrined in the new Constitution of the United States, not only at the request of the Southern ones, but also with the approval of many of the Northern delegates who saw that there was still much money to be made in the slave trade by the Yankee shipping industry.…