The huge wealth of the cotton-growers, who believed that cotton alone could support a new nation.
Southern resentment of Congress for trying to protect Northern industry by levying tariffs on imports - it looked like the North taxing the South.
The controversial issue of the new Western states - it made a big difference to both sides whether these would be slave or free. There was fierce competition to equalise the numbers.
The admission of California and the other territories acquired from Mexico. This meant abandoning the successful Missouri Compromise of 1820, which had kept the peace for 30 years.
The belief among Southern leaders that a new Confederate army could whip the North in a few weeks, with their more soldierlike breed of young men, accustomed to the riding and shooting life.
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If you mean which American Civil War battle then it was the Battle of Gettysburg which took place July 1st - July 3rd of 1863.
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Plantations suffered at the civil war because the fighting took place their and destroyed the plantation.
Civil rights movement.