The long term causes of the civil war was slavery. The south wanted slavery so that the slaves can do their work on there large plantations like carrying Tabaco and picking cotton. The north didn't want slavery so before the war they use to help the slaves make to the border so that the slaves can be in the north. The immediate causes of the civil war was the slaves escaping to the north to be free because the north banned slavery because they we're no plantations because the north was the city not the country. so the north had enough and they said they wanted to ban slavery in the whole united states which caused the civil war. which ended up that the Union army won. AKA the North. hope this helped about the civil war.
One of the great limiting factors of the early presidents is that no one had ever done this before. There was no instances of presidents in any country, and this was a brand new system , so few people knew what they were doing.
Another major problem was power, if you go back to the articles of Confederation. The Federal Government, including the president needed enough power to change things, but the State needed enough power to prevent another monarch, like Britain, whom they had recently become independent from.
