1859 was demonstrating national greatness and national unity. Yet‚ by 1860 North and South were so polarized that the lower South seceded immediately upon Lincoln’s election. In the decades leading up to the civil war there were division within divisions at work that led Southerners to believe that they had no other recourse but to secede from the Union. This paper will assess the reasons why compromise seemed impossible in 1860. By providing an assessment of when civil war became inevitable and
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the Union. South Carolina was the first to secede on December 20th 1860. The issue on slavery was one of the causes of the Civil War. Slavery and slave trades had become a big part of the South’s economy. During the 19th Century‚ the North worked hard on abolishing slavery‚ which they thought was a disgrace to the Union. Compromises were proposed working toward an end to slavery. One of the compromises was the Missouri Compromise‚ which made Maine‚ a free state‚ and Missouri‚ a slave state‚ and
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came to an end on May 9th‚ 1865. Most believed the Civil War was started was because of the “Free states” (The North) and the “Slave states” (The South) couldn’t come to a compromise over the power of national government to stop slavery in the territories that had not yet become states. Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860 and vowed to keep slavery out of territories. The Civil war is an incredibly crucial part of history‚ and the North and South have a lot to do with it. The North and South
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westward expansion‚ and began to manifest itself in American politics. The country could have gone to war by the early 1800s‚ but various political compromises held the two sections together for another half of a century. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 are two important examples. Tensions built over the 40 years of compromise. Abolitionists worked to gain support in the North while they caused outrage in the South. In the government‚ everything had to be compromised and
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Slave and land ownership became more concentrated‚ so more and more white people were forced to leave the land and move to urban centers in search of work. By 1860s a sharp contrast between the developed North and the rural South developed. Similarly to the economic growth‚ the period from 1820 to 1840 was a time of significant political developments. The previous qualifications for voting rights by the amount
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constitution was adopted by all of the states in 1789‚ uniting the states into one nation‚ differences between the states had been worked out through compromises. For more than 30 years arguments between the North and South had been growing. By 1861 these differences between the Northern states and the Southern states had become so great that compromise would no longer work. Thus‚ a conflict started within our nation that was called the civil war (1861-1865). The American Civil War was a series of political
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after the 1852 election‚ the temporary peace of the Compromise of 1850 came to an end. Senator Stephen Douglas passes the Kansas-Nebraska Act which created two new territories of Kansas and Nebraska. The status of slavery in the area was decided to be by popular sovereignty. This act wrecked two compromises The Compromise of 1820‚ and 1850‚ and the democratic party. While the act formed a new party: the Republicans. Throughout many compromises‚ and conflicts one of the large decisions was the Dred
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continent.” This quote means that struggle between the pro slavery and the anti slavery forces would ultimately affect all of United States and its people. Document D shows a map of what the result of the Crittenden Compromise of 1860 would have been if passed. The crittenden compromise was proposed by Senator John Crittenden‚ as the final effort to avert the Civil
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and took action to eliminate the act. Lincoln gathered a committee of 13 with 7 democrats‚ five republicans‚ and one constitutional unionist and passed a motion that the Crittenden Compromise could not be adopted unless supported by the majority of democrats and republicans. On January 16‚ 1861‚ the Crittenden Compromise was voted down in Senate‚ with all 25 Republicans voting no to 23 yes votes. Yet another attempt at peace was the Washington Peace Convention on February 4‚ 1861‚ where delegates from
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author James McPherson writes that‚ "The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states. In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President which he was the first Republican president on the platform pledging to keep slavery out of the territories‚ seven slave states in the deep South seceded and formed a new nation‚ the Confederate States of America
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