The Beards’s approach towards the origins of the Civil War falls within the irrepressibility of the conflict, with their major arguments supporting the idea of an inevitable conflict that was caused by differing economic systems at the climatic time. They explain in the chapter of the book there is a clear inherent antagonism between the interests of planters and the interests of industrialists. Both sides wanted to have control of the federal government. Many small farmers with a few slaves and yeomen were linked to elite planters through the market economy which in root was their main source of income whereas industrialists sought to expand innovatively and produce in those means. Following the Beards’s, in 1970 Eric Foner made several claims supporting the American Civil War was an irrepressible conflict. Foner expressed moral concerns of abolitionists and economic concerns of industrialists were less important in explaining hostility between the sides than the free-labor
The Beards’s approach towards the origins of the Civil War falls within the irrepressibility of the conflict, with their major arguments supporting the idea of an inevitable conflict that was caused by differing economic systems at the climatic time. They explain in the chapter of the book there is a clear inherent antagonism between the interests of planters and the interests of industrialists. Both sides wanted to have control of the federal government. Many small farmers with a few slaves and yeomen were linked to elite planters through the market economy which in root was their main source of income whereas industrialists sought to expand innovatively and produce in those means. Following the Beards’s, in 1970 Eric Foner made several claims supporting the American Civil War was an irrepressible conflict. Foner expressed moral concerns of abolitionists and economic concerns of industrialists were less important in explaining hostility between the sides than the free-labor