Civil War > Roaring Twenties > Great Depression > Reconstruction
They did not want to be punished for breaking laws that they did not know existed.
Answer:
A very important cause of the cause of the American Civil War was the election of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln wanted to abolish slavery and the Southerners did not want to be ruled by an anti-slavery Northerner. ... The amount of deaths/casualties in the American Civil War is also a very important effect
