The Civil War: Repressible or Irrepressible?

Although the civil war conflict was greatly infuenced by difference in economics and regionalization of political parties, the war at its base, was in an irrepressible conflict based upon slavery. This stems from the basic fact that there is no way a country can spend its entire existance without a common viewpoint on an issue so fierce as slavery. This internal conflict could very well have brewed under the surface for a quite a longer time, if it was not for the economic and political differences in the regions that developed over the 1800's. Examples of these occurences include the development of different economies, industrial in the north and agricultural in the south. As a result, the bases of the two regions were totally different, many in the south felt that the treatment of industry workers, paid next to nothing, were worse than that of a southern slave. Through the growing seperations of the two regions, the main piece holding them together in the mid 1800's was the political parties. The Whigs and the Democrats differentiated from each other, more so east-west than north-south and over issues such as tariffs and the national bank, rather than the age old north-south issue of slavery. However, with the development of the Republican party, the whig part split, and the Democrats became a southern party, finishing the seperation of the regions.