Why Was The Civil War Inevitable

The Civil War was inevitable because the North and South both had very different economies, the social and political developments separated them, and they tried to compromise multiple times but they failed, armed conflict was inevitable. Eli Whitney’s cotton gin speed the process of separating the seeds out of the cotton and this facilitated a boom and it became the leading export in the US. Cotton was an ideal crop to grow because it was easy to grow and it could be stored for long periods of time, and now the average cotton picker could remove more seeds than one pound of cotton per day. Cotton was a cheap transcontinental economy product that was cultivated abundantly in the South it was cheap for domestic use and to export and a steady supply of raw materials for the industry in the North. This also gave Southern planters a reason to keep and expand slavery, even though most Americans supported the abolitionist movement. …show more content…
For example Uncle Tom’s Cabin written by Harriet Beecher Stowe was popular because it highlighted the facts and shed some light on what had been kept in the shadows by people who depended on slavery. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was originally going to a series of three or four telling a tale of slavery, but she ended up writing tons more than that. The series ran from June 1851 to April 1852 and readers would protest if there was no installment that week. When the series was published as a book the first five thousand copies were bought in two days. The series educated people as to what was happening to the slaves and how they were being treated, it gave the white people who had polar opposite lives a view of slavery through the eyes of a slave. The people were able to experience and made aware of the issue that many did not know was