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Civil War Was Inevitable. The Term Paper
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Subject:History
Topic:American Civil War
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Firstly secession could not be allowed as it would divide the country politically, morally and economically. This aspect tended to highlight the differences between North and South. The differences in terms of labor and ethics presented two almost diametrically opposed systems.
With two fundamentally different labor systems at their base, the economic and social changes across the nation's geographical regions - based on wage labor in the North and on slavery in the South - underlay distinct visions of society that had emerged by the mid-nineteenth century in the North and in the South.
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Secondly, the war was inevitable due to one word - slavery. While there are many complex issues, such as independence and economics that can be debated, yet the importance of the slavery issue was a factor that was morally and ethically the main element that made the civil war inevitable and a factor that could not have been bypassed or avoided through discussion or compromise.
The fact that the Sooth opted for independence from the Union placed the situation on an inevitable trajectory towards conflict which was to result in the Civil War.
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African-American Civil War History in the National Park System. September 20, 2005. http://www.it'd.nps.gov/cwss/history/aa_cw_parks.htm
American Civil war: Wikipedia. September 20, 2005. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
Causes of the Civil War: A Balanced Answer. October 1, 2005. http://members.tripod.com/~greatamericanhistory/gr02013.htm
Higham, Robin, and Steven E. Woodworth, eds. The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.
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