The Civil War

The Civil War was a conflict that resulted for many reasons, some of them irrepressible, some of them not. The main conflict over slavery was an issue that could not be resolved because both sides became increasingly unwilling to compromise over it. The slavery issue had been addressed many times in the short history of the Republic but a lasting agreement was never made. As slavery became a large issue, government officials were being elected solely to defend or attack it. Thus out of this trend came the spitting of well- established parties and the emergence of purely sectional parties. The issue of the Industrial North verses the Agricultural South, was something that could have been avoided. Both areas were very reliant to the other, and this dependence for both trade and protection was most likely the main reason why the war was held off for so long, neither side would have survived it. The main cause of the war was the mistrust the South held for the North and vise versa, both side became so paranoid that they soon became unreasonable and violent and a war was destined to come after that.