Lincoln explains how the house would not stay the way it was‚ which was divided. Half of the United States supported slavery and the other half did not. Lincoln states‚ “A house divided against itself cannot stand”‚ concluding that something needed and was going to happen to change that. When relating this to the question of whether the Civil War was inevitable or not‚ this supports that is was indeed inevitable. The question of slavery was too grand of an issue to not result in some type of event
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As tensions continued to build because of the constitution allowing slavery‚ the South felt it was being backed up into a corner. (Schultz‚ 2013) The problem was‚ the South’s entire economy depended on slave labor. The North was already industrially sound‚ however in the South‚ it was the way of life and was based upon an agricultural society rather than an industrial society. The civil war was inevitable because the North and the South would not compromise on issues of slavery‚ sectionalism‚ and
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The Civil War was fought between the Northern and Southern states of of America. Was the Civil War inevitable? It was a conflict bound to happen due to the differences between the North and South’s views on slavery‚ society‚ and politics. The South wanted their independence and freedom from the North‚ while the North wanted unity. The Northern states‚ also known as the Union‚ had a very strong economy based on agriculture‚ industry‚ and free labor. They were independent and did not have to rely
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By the end of 1854 the two sections‚ the North (Union) and the South (Confederacy) had reached an impasse and that Civil War was inevitable sooner or later. The conflicts grew tension between the two‚ the manufacturing section of the North and the agricultural South‚ which led to Civil War. Between the North and the South there were economic‚ social and political differences. The North had a number of goals concerning slavery and the South. The North wanted to abolish slavery‚ stop the spread of
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Was the Civil War inevitable? This was one of the most controversial arguments in American history. Personally‚ I think this war would happen sooner or later. The long-term cause was the different ideas on the slavery system between the North and the South. After the Confederates attacked Fort Sumter‚ the Civil War began. Slavery was the biggest problem between the North and the South. The economy in the south relied on agriculture. The owners of big plantations required thousands of slaves to
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The American Civil War‚ a bloody and brutal conflict that claimed the lives of over 600‚000 individuals. The war was fought between the Union and Confederacy‚ also known as the North and the South. It is considered by many to be a turning point within American history because it ended the issues of rights and slavery in the U.S. And while the war was also believed to be inevitable‚ the outcome certainly was not. Many factors such as Confederate strategy‚ lack of morale‚ and the outcome of the of
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Was the Civil War inevitable? Did so many deaths have to occur to kill slavery? Would America be more prosperous if the North and South had permanently divided? To answer these questions one must look back and discover the reason the Civil War happened and how it affected America. The United States was built on slavery; it is woven into America’s history. Right after the Revolutionary War‚ slavery was abolished in most of the northern states. But it was rampant in the South where most of the citizens
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The Civil war was inevitable if the conflict between the south and the north‚ slavery and politics were resolved. After independence‚ the differences and complexity of America sharpened increasing slavery. The complexities in terms of the migration of the whites and black slaves and shift from small scale farming to large scale farming made civil war inevitable. There were many differences between the north and south. The north preferred city life while the south was keen to plantation life. The
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Several factors played in to the American Civil War that made it have the outcome that it did. Although the South had better trained officials due to their military school‚ the North was far more advanced than they. The North had the advantage over the South in several ways. However‚ the outcome of the Civil War was not inevitable: it was determined as much by human decisions and human willpower as by physical resources‚ although the North’s resources gave them an edge over the South. The South
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2) I think the Civil War was inevitable because of the federal government’s treatment and sometimes babying of the South. As stated earlier‚ every time the South wanted something (increased federal protection of slavery‚ expansion of slavery. etc.) or were against a law passed (Tariff – Nullification Crisis of 1832) their go-to method of getting their way was to threaten secession from the union. I think the fact that the federal government sometimes entertained them was what made the South so bold
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