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Michaelson John Michaelson Lynn Owens English April 22 2009 Causes of the Civil War ?A house divided against itself cannot stand.? ? Abraham Lincoln was expressing his frustration with the Confederacy after it had decided to split from the Union. Once again America was at war, not against any neighboring country but within its own ?house?. America had been split into two entities, the Confederates and the Union. The American battle raged for four years, 1861-1865. The northern and southern states went into this Civil War because of economic, social, and political disputes between the two regions.