What were the causes of the united states civil war?

"States Rights". Southern states believed that they had the right to determine the status of slavery for themselves. Northern states wanted it to be illegal. The south decided to secede from the Union so that they could make laws for themselves. While there is absolutely no question that slavery should have been illegal, taking away the rights of States to make their own law was the beginning of some serious problems for this country. Slavery was certainly immoral, but there were plenty of other options before making it a Federal law.

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While this is what is taught in school, it is a lie. The Rothschilds plainly stated in the newspapers of the day that if Lincoln did not bow the knee to their usury, he "would find himself in a most unfortunate civil war."

The major long-term cause was the economic disparity between the industrial North and the agrarian South. The source of the South's economy was based on slavery, which brought that institution into the debate. The North depended on protectionist tariffs. The South preferred low tariffs wich favored cotton exports and purchase of low priced imported goods. Abolitionists brought the morality of slavery into question. The South felt as though, in order to retain the political equilibrium, it had to extend slavery into the Western States as territories applied for statehood, and the North felt as though it needed to contain slavery. Had politicians been able to assure the continuation of slavery in the South, without spreading it to the West, the South may not have pursued its adamant defense of States' Rights, but the Fugitive Slave Act threw the equilibrium out of kilter and started the "inevitable march" toward civil war.

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While this is what is taught in school, it is a lie. The Rothschilds plainly stated in the newspapers of the day that if Lincoln did not bow the knee to their usury, he "would find himself in a most unfortunate civil war."