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The conflict over slavery played a major role in sparking the civil war. How did americans attempt to resolve the conflict in teh years after the revolution? What impact did those compromises have on the united states? Was the Civil war inevitable? Why or Why not?

2007-02-25 13:12:45 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities History

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I disagree it has "since"the war as the real reasons would have proved embarrassing and it was easier to change history then to admit to it! “and they [Yankees] are marked ... with such a perversity of character, as to constitute, from that circumstance, the natural division of our parties” Thomas Jefferson

In the 1770s, the South had every reason to continue the relationship with England, one of its best customers. It was the manufacturing North that was getting the short end of that stick. Southerners joined the Revolutionary War out of patriotism, idealism, and enlightened political philosophy such as motivated Jefferson, not patriotism, philosophy, and economic betterment which inspired the North.
In 1860, the shoe was on the other foot. Southern agrarians were at heel to the nation's bankers and industrialists. That just got worse with the election of the Republican Lincoln, bringing back into power the party favoring the wealthy supply side, as it still does.
Then as now central to that, party's interest was keeping down the cost of manufacture. Today labor is the big cost, so today they move the plants offshore and leave US workers to their fate. Back before the US labor movement existed the big cost was raw materials, and the GOP was just as unprincipled toward its Southern suppliers as it is today toward labor.
Thanks to modern graveyard science and surviving records, researchers know that in 1760, 100 years before the War Between the States, Charleston, South Carolina, had the largest population of slaves and we say proudly the second largest slave population was in New York City.
One of the main quarrels was about taxes paid on goods brought into this country from foreign countries. This tax was called a tariff. Southerners felt these tariffs were unfair and aimed toward them because they imported a wider variety of goods than most Northern people. Taxes were also placed on many Southern goods that were shipped to foreign countries, an expense that was not always applied to Northern goods of equal value. An awkward economic structure allowed states and private transportation companies to do this, which also affected Southern banks that found themselves paying higher interest rates on loans made with banks in the North. As industry in the North expanded, it looked towards southern markets, rich with cash from the lucrative agricultural business, to buy the North's manufactured goods. The situation grew worse after several "panics", including one in 1857 that affected more Northern banks than Southern. Southern financiers found themselves burdened with high payments just to save Northern banks that had suffered financial losses through poor investment. However, it was often cheaper for the South to purchase the goods abroad. In order to "protect" the northern industries Jackson slapped a tariff on many of the imported goods that could be manufactured in the North. When South Carolina passed the Ordinance of Nullification in November 1832, refusing to collect the tariff and threatening to withdraw from the Union, Jackson ordered federal troops to Charleston. A secession crisis was averted when Congress revised the Tariff of Abominations in February 1833. The Panic of 1837 and the ensuing depression began to gnaw like a hungry animal on the flesh of the American system. The disparity between northern and southern economies was exacerbated. Before and after the depression the economy of the South prospered. Southern cotton sold abroad totaled 57% of all American exports before the war. The Panic of 1857 devastated the North and left the South virtually untouched. The clash of a wealthy, agricultural South and a poorer, industrial North was intensified by abolitionists who were not above using class struggle to further their cause.
In the years before the Civil War the political power in the Federal government, centered in Washington, D.C., was changing. Northern and mid-western states were becoming more and more powerful as the populations increased. Southern states lost political power because the population did not increase as rapidly. As one portion of the nation grew larger than another, people began to talk of the nation as sections. This was called sectionalism. Just as the original thirteen colonies fought for their independence almost 100 years earlier, the Southern states felt a growing need for freedom from the central Federal authority in Washington. Southerners believed that state laws carried more weight than Federal laws, and they should abide by the state regulations first. This issue was called State's Rights and became a very warm topic in congress.

These are facts not emotions or unsupported claims, now what was the War over?


God Bless You and The Southern People.

2007-02-25 18:49:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

The Civil War was indeed inevitable because its major cause was economic, not slavery. It was a contest for who was to control the rich lands of the West, the industrial North, or the agrarian South. Two completely diverse areas trying to live under the same system of economics and law. The clash was inevitable and resulted in the Civil War.

Chow!!

2007-02-25 13:32:41 · answer #2 · answered by No one 7 · 0 1

The Civil War was caused because the South felt that the federal government was imposing themselves on their state rights. The South sucedded over Federal vs. State rights and the Civil War was to keep the US togethe, even though the South attacked first. The North felt that slavery was wrong and tried to make it illegal. The Civil War wasn't to free the slaves though, and once Lincoln promised to free the slaves after the war many whites didn't feel like dieing to free them so they began to oppose it.

2007-02-25 13:24:20 · answer #3 · answered by Thrin 2 · 0 0

The Civil war aws the consequence of the failure to come to grips with the issue, as for the attempt to resolve that issue shortly after the revolution, there was no such thing!

2007-02-25 13:36:33 · answer #4 · answered by namazanyc 4 · 0 0

Slavery was NOT the primary role of the civil war. It was an effort to separate the southern states from the rest of the union at that time. The war was inevitable because the major players in the war wanted it as way to stablize the warmongers from the South.

2007-02-25 13:21:12 · answer #5 · answered by ken123 3 · 0 3

The Civil War was about states rights. States rights to own slaves.

2007-02-25 13:32:52 · answer #6 · answered by joe1max 4 · 1 1

well in my pov the civil war was inevitable.the issue of slavery was already causing many problems.There was violence(john brown's raid in harper's ferry) and litearture ciculating around the US condemning the institution of slavery(Uncle Tom's cabin). also economically the south was just sustaining itself like that while the north was more industrialized and the south was not willing to let their main source for riches go like that. people wanted to keep it others didn't and it had to be tresolved.Its like Lincol once said"a house divided cannot stand".

2007-02-25 13:18:57 · answer #7 · answered by WonderWoman 5 · 2 0

not only slavely, difference in N and S.
N had more industorys, where S had farms, and N or the gov. made high tarrifs makeing cotton tobacco to jack up its price in europe so they had to sell for cheaper, but made N ritch, and this tention built up and up.

remember people in N did not like slavely but not all, infact raceism was great in the N too. after the war Southern blacks was allowed to vote in the S, but not in the N.

2007-02-25 13:20:35 · answer #8 · answered by cb450t 3 · 1 0

I think it would be a good idea for you to read your history assignments and do your own homework instead of relying on answers here. It's something you need to understand to understand the fabric of the U.S., and you're not going to get that kind of understanding here.

2007-02-25 13:20:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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