Saturday, December 8, 2007

civil war was unavoidable

The Civil War was an inevitable conflict that was bound to explode due to the differences between the North and South societies, slavery, and politics. After Independence, the complexity of the American society grew. The three components that contributed to this complexity was the shift away form small-scale, largely subsistence farming by substantial numbers of northerners; the migration of thousands of white Americans and black slaves, and the renewal of slavery as a viable economic system. Together, these triggered a sharpening conflict between economic interests, social classes and regions that were frequently manifested in party politics.

During the nineteenth century, the econonmic difference increased between the region of North and South. By 1830, cotton was the chief crop of the south. The profitability of cotton completed the South's dependence on the plantation system and its essential component of slavery. North in contrast was overflow by the factories . A realitive dense population discouraged fraing and hence made manufacturinf more attractive. Built up of the railraod particularly made the market more accessible: ease the import of south raw material and the export of the finished product. The North favor of protective tariff and central bank was deeply resentful by south.
During Tariff of 1828, southerner suffer both as consumers and as producer. They sold their cotton and other farm produce market completely unprotected by tariff and were forced to buy their manufacture good heavily protected by tariff. In contrast , the profits of the Yankee manufacturer were commensurately fatten. This accentuate economic interest would evitably led to the division. Politically, south were particular marked by argument of state's right over the federal government. Sprout from the Thomas Jefferson's Kentucky and Virginia resolution, South Carolina bluntly and explicity proposed that state's can nullify tariff of 1828 as it was a violation of the state's right. Secession of South Carolina in 1833 would eventually become first touched off a civil war. By the spring of 1861 the southern people would again it both abhorrent and dangerous to continue to live under the same government with the people of the North. So profound was this feeling among the bulk of the southern population that they were prepared to fight a long and devastating war to accomplish a separation.

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