What could drive brothers and countrymen to take up arms against each other? What could cause such merciless carnage that tore apart families and a nation? Was the American civil war necessary?

The American civil war was a long and bloody war. It split the United States apart at the seams, pitting former compatriots in a savage war to protect their beliefs and cultures. But in spite of the plethora of destruction and atrocities caused by the American civil war, I believe that the American civil war was a necessary

With the dwindling of the Southern economy came both a decline in political power. With the Southern political arena shrinking, the North (and a large majority of the Western world, for that matter) began to more and more openly voice its disapproval of the Southern “peculiar institution,” or the slave trade. The Northern free states had never looked kindly upon slavery because of their religious backgrounds, but could do little to change it. Now that the North was becoming politically dominant, the Southern states were on the defensive. The South feared that the North would soon be able to use its influence to eliminate slavery, and consequently, the basis of the Southern way of life. For many years preceding the Civil War, Northern and Southern congressman were at odds in Congress, with the Northern free states attacking Southern policy, and tactful Southern statesman craftily rebutting by flexing interpretation of the Constitution to defend their “state rights.”

Despite the superior Northern presence in Congress, the strong Southern presence in the Senate kept the Union states in check. Unfortunately for the South, they knew that this would not last forever, as the Northern, free states’ growth was far outstripping that of the Southern slave states. For years the Southern slave states had been frantically trying to match the pace of westward expansion that the North was setting as to keep a political balance in the Senate, and therefore protect Southern state interests. The South feared that eventually when the North had a sufficient advantage in both congress and the senate, the North would emancipate the slaves and impose Northern ideals upon the Southern states.

In the South, an entirely different brand of people began to populate the new American colony. These people were mostly aristocrats seeking for

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