There are many ways that the Civil War can be debated. It can be debated from causes‚ to outcomes‚ to victories‚ to even defeats. These are just some of the many issues that people can have different opinions on. One of the major issues or debates that people have about the Civil War is whether it was inevitable or whether it was avoidable. What started everything was when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union. On December 20th‚ 1860 this was made a reality with South Carolina seceding
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Name __________________________ Civil War Persuasive Essay Question Instructions: Answer the following question in a well-developed‚ five-paragraph persuasive essay: “Was the Civil War inevitable or preventable?” Suggestions and requirements: Your answer should be equivalent to at least 5 paragraphs of 5-6 average-length sentences each. Your answer can be “yes‚” “no” or somewhere in between. Make sure you understand the wording of the question fully before you begin. It would
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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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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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Inevitable Freedom The United States of America could have easily lost the Revolutionary War‚ along with colonists not constructing the Constitution‚ but also Colonial Representatives established as a self-governing entity within the British Empire. Amongst all odds‚ the Colonists managed to pull off their fight for independence from the world’s most notorious empire and military in the world at that time. If the British were to maintain consistency of their politics and policies‚ could the outcome
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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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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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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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