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Is the English Civil War the cause of the American Civil War?

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No.

But it is possible to see the two sides in the English Civil War (Royalists and Parliamentarians) popping up again as Confederate and Union. In some cases, there was actual blood-descent.

When the King was executed, a lot of Royalists thought it was going to get too hot for them, and they emigrated to America, where they gravitated South to the plantations.

A few years later, at the Restoration, a lot of Parliamentarians thought it was going to get too hot for them, and emigrated to America, where they gravitated to New York and carried on the Puritan agenda.

In the American Civil War, the Confederates identified strongly with the Cavaliers (Royalists) of the English Civil War, and tried to imitate their chivalric manners and
romantic concept of warfare.

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