Instead, she said the “cause of the Civil War was a lack of compromise.”
Nikki Haley’s remark about the cause of the Civil War was only partially correct. The primary cause of the Civil War was indeed a lack of compromise between the North and the South over slavery. Despite numerous attempts, the two sides could not come to an agreement as to whether slavery should be abolished, and both sides turned to arms to resolve the issue. Without slavery as a driving factor, the Civil War would likely not have happened.
