南北战争,又称美国内战,是美国历史上伤亡人数最多的战争。而对于美国内战的起因,人们往往错误地将其归咎于奴隶制,甚至很多人认为美国人打这场战争是为了解放黑奴。奴隶制确实是触发内战的诸多因素之一,但是战争爆发的原因是极其复杂的。事实上,美国内战爆发主要归咎于南北在意识形态、经济发展、对待奴隶制是否向西部扩张的态度以及所追求的利益等方面存在的不可调和的矛盾与差异。 The Civil War, also known as the U.S. Civil War, is the war with the largest number of casualties in U.S. history. As for the cause of the U.S. civil war, people often mistakenly blame slavery. Many people even think that the Americans are fighting this war to liberate the slaves. Slavery is indeed one of the many factors triggering the civil war, but the reasons for the outbreak of war are extremely complicated. In fact, the outbreak of the U.S. civil war was mainly attributed to the irreconcilable contradictions and differences between the North and the South in ideology and economic development, the attitude toward slavery in expanding to the West, and the interests sought.