Why Was The Civil War Inevitable

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the issue of slavery was finally being dealt with in a certain regard. In the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the north was still scared to upset the south so they didn’t do anything drastic. The south had this conspiracy that the north and the government was against them and that they were all trying to abolish slavery. Even though they're weren’t very many huge improvements to the slavery laws, it was fairly clear that there would be a big conflict to resolve the issue. The civil war was inevitable due to the Northwest Ordinance, the Missouri Compromise, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
There were signs that a war was inevitable all the way back in 1787 when the Northwest Ordinance
The very heated debate over Missouri’s application for admission for statehood ran for three months.. Northerners argued that Congress had the power to prohibit slavery in a new state. Southerners said that new states had the same freedom of action as the original thirteen and were free to choose slavery if they wanted too. A compromise bill for the statehood of Missouri was finally worked out with the following provisions: Missouri would enter the union as a slave state and Maine, which was formerly part of Massachusetts, would enter as free, and except for Missouri, slavery wouldn’t be permitted in any land from the Louisiana Purchase lands north of latitude 36°30′, which is the lower territory line of Missouri. The Missouri Compromise upset many southerners because it established the idea that the government could make laws regarding slavery; northerners, on the other hand, said it went along with the expansion of slavery, even though only south of the compromise line could be slave states, it still allowed for slavery to expand westward. This act held the union together for more than thirty years. It was finally repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, which established popular sovereignty regarding slavery in Kansas and Nebraska, even though both territories were north of the Missouri compromise line. The compromise line that is made really separates the north and the south and it allows the continuation of slavery. The south sees this as limiting slavery, which it is, but slavery is still happening in the Union. This would have been a good time to tell the south no and stop slavery but instead they decided to compromise which shows how scared the north was of the south even though the south didn’t have huge power. This makes the south really mad because yet again the government is getting involved with the issue of slavery and limiting the