The Civil War:Repressible or Irrepressible

The Civil War was largely irrepressible because of the extreme sectionalism in the country between the North and South. The North and South diverged completely on economics as well as politics and the significant differences between the regions made the Civil War irrepressible. Sectionalism had began occurring throughout the years prior to the civil war, this was demonstrated in economics as much as politics. The Northern and Southern economies became dependent on different things. The North was largely industrialized therefore it supported protective tariffs which sometimes seemed to obviously come at the expense of the Southern economy. The South was agriculture based therefore it depended on the textiles of the North significantly, yet the north did not depend largely on the South for raw material because it could also use materials from the West. Obviously there was a great deal of political divisions between the North and the South as well. The biggest of these issues was hte issie of slavery. This issue is mostly why the Civil War was irrepressible. The extreme divisions between the ideology of the North and South on this issue could not have been solved in an other manner. All attempts at compromise eventually failed, such as the Missouri Compromise in 1820. Although this temporarily subdued the issue it aggravated it as well when debates over the fairness of it began to unfold. The many attempts of compromise and agreement seemed to have beenfutile therefore some type of force would have been necessary. This demonstrates how the Civil War was not repressible because of the extreme sectionalism in the country.