Q: Was the Civil War fought over the issue of slavery? The South, which was known as the Confederate States of America, seceded from the North, which was also known as the Union, for many different reasons. The reason they wanted to succeed was because there was four decades of great sectional conflict between the two. Between the North and South there were deep economic, social, and political differences. The South wanted to become an …showed first 75 words of 1709 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1709 total…this could not be done because slavery is what kept the South running. After the succession of the South President Lincoln said that, "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free." Since slavery formed two opposing societies, and slavery could never be abolished, the Civil War was inevitable. It is due to these radical differences in opinion that the South seceded from the North.