Any other reason the U.S. has a civil war?

From the time of its founding to 1900, is there any reason other than slavery that might send the US into a civil war with the same amount of destruction as OTL? Let's assume slavery has been magically abolished from the countries founding.
 
From the time of its founding to 1900, is there any reason other than slavery that might send the US into a civil war with the same amount of destruction as OTL? Let's assume slavery has been magically abolished from the countries founding.

If they don't find a solution to polygamy in Utah? IOTL, I believe that when all was said and done, it basically just took the threat of "no statehood" to get the Mormon Church to formally renounce it.

Maybe, somehow, Utah is let into the union on the condition that they put into motion moves to eventually end polygamy at some unspecified point in the future, but people elsewhere in the nation think it's not happening fast enough, and you've got hardliners in Washington who want the feds to put the boot down, and Utah declares independence, and it goes from there.

But I doubt Utah had enough population to fight a way on the scale of the real-life ACW. It might be closer to being just a really bloody rebellion, supressed with relative quickness.
 

Anaxagoras

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A few missteps and open violence could have broken out between the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans in 1798-1800. Alexander Hamilton said as much after the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, which he said that the army should be sent into Virginia to "put the state to the test of resistance".
 
There was a substantial number of times that State Militia (National Guard) troops were used to violently end strikes throughout the country in the later half of the Nineteenth Century. It was only the lack of means and organization by the workers that kept many of these these situations from spiraling out of control.
 
From the time of its founding to 1900, is there any reason other than slavery that might send the US into a civil war with the same amount of destruction as OTL? Let's assume slavery has been magically abolished from the countries founding.

Amount of centralisation vs. decentralisation? That's been a pretty common cause of civil wars over the last few centuries.
 
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