There were many contributing factors leading up to the civil war. Both constitutional and social development played a role between 1860-1877. The revolution was guaranteed with the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, the radical abolitionist attitude by the north, and the North and South's inability to compromise on slave laws in the congress.

The election of 1860 brought shock upon the South when they learned a northern republican was to take office. They felt dishonored and cheated because Lincoln was not even in some Southern balances. They felt that Lincoln was sure to abolish slavery and ruin the South's way of life. The South felt, had Douglass or Breckenridge won the election, slavery was to thrive and spread in America. Most border states and upper southern leaders had reminded the deeper south that Lincoln promised to stay clear of slavery and succession was to be a last resort. Despite...