Civil War: What were the long term causes of the Civil War other than the slavery controversy?

What were the long term causes of the Civil War other than the slavery controversy?





What were some of the immediate causes of the Civil War? Why did the secession of the Southern states from the Federation or Union precipitate the Civil War?|||State's Rights was the big issue. That and how the northern states were trying to put it to the southern states by lowering the price of cotton they would pay.|||Causes of the Civil War:



- Slavery



- The Slave Power.



- The expansion of slavery to the west (Mexican War, Kansas-Nebraska Act)



- Whether slavecatchers could operate in the north (Fugitive Slave Act)



- Whether pro-slavery militants could invade Kansas and set up a pro-slavery government there (Bleeding Kansas)



- The Dred Scott decision.



- The south's economic dependence on cotton, and slavery. "King Cotton" absorbed most southern investments, which slowed the growth of industry in the south. The north's emerging industrialization. Many of the industrialists wanted tariffs to support their businesses against competing foreign businesses, and the industrialists could influence politicians. Tariffs didn't hurt other northerners as much as it hurt the southerners.



- Collapse of cotton prices in the late 1850s because of cotton plantations elsewhere in the world.



- Disputes over whether the states had the power to secede. Of course, both sides were hypocrites; when the south controlled the government, many northerners wanted secession, and most southerners considered that treason.



- The actual stated reason in the articles of secession in each Confederate state: Slavery.