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Cause Of Civil War

 

            Civil War historian Shelby Foote describes the American Civil War as the most .
             The Civil War was, at the very least, one of the .
             most controversial periods in American history. Because of this, there are many theories .
             that explain the cause. Most conventional theories attribute the causes of this conflict .
             were rooted in economic, social, political and geographic differences. There are strong .
             arguments for each of these theories as well as, strong arguments against each of these. .
             Tensions over the institution of slavery had been building for decades, and every time a .
             new state in the West was added, there was a furious debate over whether or not slavery .
             would be permitted in it. The best opportunity to resolve the actual cause is to explore .
             each argument together and determine how the war came to be.
             The issue of slavery is significant and affected many other aspects of American life, .
             specifically the culture of the South. While America modernized in the mid nineteenth .
             century "the slave states remained overwhelmingly rural and agricultural." This .
             agricultural society left the South with a stronger reliability on the institution of slavery .
             than the more modern Northern states. Cotton was the staple crop of the South, which .
             relied predominantly on slave labor. In 1851 an Alabama newspaper declared that .
             "financially the South was more enslaved than their Negroes" and continued by .
             explaining this theory. "We purchase all our luxuries and necessities from the North . . . .
             Northerners abuse and denounce slavery and slaveholders, yet our slaves are clothed with .
             Northern manufactured goods, have Northern hats and shoes, work with Northern hoes, .
             ploughs, and other implements . . . The slaveholder dresses in Northern goods, rides in a .
             Northern saddle . . . sports his Northern carriage . . . reads Northern books . . . In .
             Northern vessels his products are carried to market, his cotton is ginned with Northern .


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