Could The Civil War Been Avoided

I think the Civil War could not have been avoided because it seemed like the only way to stop the South from seceding from the Union. The South developed their wealth from the slaves that picked cotton and tobacco. They sold these crops to other countries who needed them and developed wealth from these other countries. If the North stopped this, the South would not be able to make as much money. The Dred Scott Decision was a deciding factor about the war. If Dred Scott had been admitted as a free black then the Supreme Court would have stopped slavery governmentally. The Wilmot Proviso was also a deciding factor as well. This was bill that tried to exclude slavery from any land America might acquire from Mexico. This angered Mississippians and other southerners that the North would try to prevent them from taking slaves to the western territories. By the time the war was over, some of the Mississippian were talking about seceding from the Union and
Representatives from nine southern states met Nashville, Tennessee to formulate a strategy to legalize slavery in Utah and New Mexico territories. While the convention was in session, Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky introduced several bills that were signed to ease sectional tension. Clay called it the Compromise of 1850. In my opinion, this just made the tensions between the South and North worse. The fire-eaters were the main people who got the South to start a war with the North. They gave the South false proof about the North that they were teaching their children to hate the South. This got the South angry and scared because this got the South thinking about seceding from the Union. When Lincoln was elected the South thought he was going to try to wipe out slavery, but this was the opposite of what he did at first. Lincoln knew that the South had made their economy on slavery and he did not want to take their wealth away from, but he still did not want slavery to go