The Civil War: Repressible or Irrepressible?

The Civil War was irrepressible, because of the economic differences between the North and the South and the issue over slavery, where the North wanted slavery to be abolished, but the Southerners economy was so dependent on it that they were not going to give it up without a fight.
Since the Tariff of 1828 the South had been threatening secession, because they felt that the north along with the federal government was oppressive and ignorant of their needs. This was a political conflict based on economic differences. The different needs of the manufacturing North and the agricultural South set the basis and were a major cause of the Civil War. However the trigger was the dispute over slavery. Slavery could in some ways also be considered an economic issue, because the southern economy was very dependent on it and the Northerners resented this economic advantage for the South. These growing tensions could not have been repressed or resolved in an other way at the time, because each side was so persistent in supporting their cause.