Tension Between States During The American Civil War

A civil war doesn’t just happen, it must have tension between states to create such a terrible event. The biggest tension in the United States during the American Civil War was slavery. Many people benefited from slavery and would be greatly affected if it was outlawed, such as the South. Many believed that slavery was inhumane and gave other states an unfair advantage in the power they held, such as the North. There was an effort to create a compromise between these two arguments, though none would work out. Either slavery is outlawed altogether, or it stays. This is what caused the civil war. A big contributor to the anger that the North had was Uncle Tom’s Cabin. A story written by a young white woman in 1851, Harriet Beecher Stowe, about the struggles and horrors of
The blood he spilled on Southern ground on the night of 1859 was immense and put a frightened face on many Southerners. His plan was simple, ambush a Southern arsenal and arm enslaved people to attack the South. The attack didn’t last long, but it was long enough to send a message. The South was outraged, and rightfully so, but the North saw John Brown as a hero, not a terrorist. His final message went as so; “I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.” And thus, even before his final breath, he swore that the South must be purged. Even if Nat Turner’s rebellion was a while before the Civil War, it was a big piece in the puzzle of how the Civil War came about. Nat Turner was a slave in Virginia before he ran away and became an abolitionist against slavery in 1831. The rebellion of Nat Turner was a giant attack against the South by gathering an army of slaves to revolt. Afterwards the South was cornered into pushing further restrictions on slaves; not letting them talk of revolution, and not letting them leave without a pass. This only furthered tensions between the South and the