The topic concerning the role that slavery played in bringing the bloodiest on American soil is highly debated by different schools of thoughts. Slavery caused a heated confrontation between the north and south both pegging their concerns on the validity of the slavery. The argument sparked different thoughts on the actual cause of the historical civil war in America. Taxations and the state rights have been greatly attributed to igniting the civil war. The North had called for the protection of slaves which the South was strongly opposing. During the much-heated war, most of the slaves escaped to the Northside where they were protected (Blashfield, 2012).
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Both sides were entirely different bevasue they had contrasting needs from their government. In the Northern States, the society was tremendously becoming industrial, with high numbers of immigrants being recorded who were in such of jobs. Women, on the other hand, started abandoning the farms and relocating to the cities looking for employment opportunities. The significant numbers of women and immigrants moving to the cities offered adequate cheap labor for the textile industry. It would in turn increase the demand for slaves to work on the cotton farms to produce raw material for the industries. The southern states, on the other hand, had remained as a region of a small town and vast tracts of the plantation (Burns et al., 2011).The lucrative cotton plantations were solely dependent on the availability of the slaves to take care of the fields, which also ensured cheap European imports. The South’s greatest worry was that if the Northern States gained control of the Congress in the government, they would introduce high taxes on the imports to decrease and discourage their importation. Around the late 18th century is when the abolition movement was initiated in the northern states and this created some divisions in the country regarding the issue of the North and the South. Slavery was banned in the entire new western regions by the Missouri Compromise in 1820; this made the southern states feel threatened on slavery as an institution. It was followed by a Court decision commonly referred to as the Dred Scott Decision, which declared all those with African origins were not citizens, and they have no right to citizenship. Hence, those slaves who had escaped would remain to be the property of their initial owners (Breyer,
During that period when North America was under the colonization of the Europeans, there …show more content…
Both sides were entirely different bevasue they had contrasting needs from their government. In the Northern States, the society was tremendously becoming industrial, with high numbers of immigrants being recorded who were in such of jobs. Women, on the other hand, started abandoning the farms and relocating to the cities looking for employment opportunities. The significant numbers of women and immigrants moving to the cities offered adequate cheap labor for the textile industry. It would in turn increase the demand for slaves to work on the cotton farms to produce raw material for the industries. The southern states, on the other hand, had remained as a region of a small town and vast tracts of the plantation (Burns et al., 2011).The lucrative cotton plantations were solely dependent on the availability of the slaves to take care of the fields, which also ensured cheap European imports. The South’s greatest worry was that if the Northern States gained control of the Congress in the government, they would introduce high taxes on the imports to decrease and discourage their importation. Around the late 18th century is when the abolition movement was initiated in the northern states and this created some divisions in the country regarding the issue of the North and the South. Slavery was banned in the entire new western regions by the Missouri Compromise in 1820; this made the southern states feel threatened on slavery as an institution. It was followed by a Court decision commonly referred to as the Dred Scott Decision, which declared all those with African origins were not citizens, and they have no right to citizenship. Hence, those slaves who had escaped would remain to be the property of their initial owners (Breyer,