How Harmful Was The Civil War Inevitable?

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I think the Civil War was inevitable because of the federal government’s treatment and sometimes babying of the South. As stated earlier, every time the South wanted something (increased federal protection of slavery, expansion of slavery. etc.) or were against a law passed (Tariff – Nullification Crisis of 1832) their go-to method of getting their way was to threaten secession from the union. I think the fact that the federal government sometimes entertained them was what made the South so bold into thinking that they could pull that card if the North was not behaving in the way that they wanted them to in order to get what they wanted. In a sense, the policy of “appeasement” that the federal government took concerning Southern states reminds me of what the British did with Hitler and the Nazi. Though it is a bit of a stretch to compare the South with the Nazis, in a sense they undertook the same underhanded tactics,
Another factor that made the war possible was the expansionist view that President Pierce and many other Americans held. While initially, Americans were in favor of expanding westward and to other lands surrounding the nation, the issue of slavery had somehow found its way into U.S. foreign policy, not only did the failed acquisition of Cuba as an attempt to turn it into a slave territory by the South almost create an armed conflict between Cuba’s slave population (courtesy of the Spanish) but it also turned off Northerners completely to the idea of expansionism. This sudden disdain is expressed in why Northerners and the Republican party fought so hard to make sure that slavery would not expand beyond the southern states that they were already present