The Civil War: Repressible or Irrepressible?

Because of the failure to completely compromise the slavery issue between the growing North and the traditional South as well as the unwillingness of both sides to accept fair compromise, the Civil war was irrepressible without a complete sectional tear in the republic. Though the Civil War was minorly infuenced by difference in economics and regionalization of political parties, the most influential cause of the war was the vigorous debates and sectional differences between the north and the South over 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. This demonstrates the particulars about how the civil War was aggravated by the sectional differences between the North and the south over slavery.