Was Slavery reason for Civil War?

Was Slavery reason for Civil War?

The road to Civil War, the bloodiest war in the history of the US, was long and was fuileed with many great disasters for American people.
In 1857, the Dred Scott decision was made. Dred Scott was a slave and his owner took him in 1834 to Illinois, a free state. He then took Dred to Wisconsin Territory, where slavery was not allowed. His owner died and Dred Scott sued for his freedom on the fact that he stayed in a free state and a free territory so he should be free. The Supreme Court ruled that he was not a citizen and thus could not sue. This was a terrible blow to the South.

On October 16, 1859, John Brown committed an act of violence against the south. He was a fanatical abolitionist who decided that he couldn't wait any longer and had to do something. He, with 18 men captured the Federal Armory at Harpers Ferry. Colonel Lee attacked the barn that Brown was in and Brown surrendered. This merely caused more people to become abolitionists in the north, and more southern people that wanted slavery to be untouched.

The election of 1860 was the beginning of the war, so to speak. The Democratic party broke up into the southern Democrats, who nominated John Breckinbridge, and the northern Democrats, who nominated Stephen Douglas. A new party, the Constitutional Union party, was formed and they nominated John Bell. Lastly, the New Republican party nominated Abraham Lincoln, who got elected. This election was the final spark that started the war and immedietly after the election, South Carolina seceded from the Union. Soon after that, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. President Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers and because of this, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina seceded. The Civil War had begun.
One of the main disputes that caused the Civil War to start was slavery. Slavery started out as a few indentured servants. These were from England and were generally white. People began taking blacks against their...