Could The Civil War Been Avoided

Elliot Jarman

Mrs. Whitehair

English Rough Draft

2 March, 2015

We Can't Stop and We Won't Stop The Civil War was the most tragic war in United States' history. At the end of the war, hundreds of thousands of men lay dead ("Civil"). Families were torn apart and feelings of loss swept through many peoples' minds. It was a war that affected not only our nation, but the whole world. Its devastating affects leave a lasting impression for everyone to see ("American"). This experience leaves a common question; could the Civil War been avoided? The answers no, the civil war could not have been avoided do to all of the tension between the northern states and southern states. On November 10, 1860 Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected to be the sixteenth

They often had very few rights... Most slaves were not even allowed to learn how to read or write for fear that they may use that to their advantage in learning how to escape. Slaves often got severe punishments for minor offenses, a very common way to punish a slave for an offense would be to whip them. Slaves were downgraded and treated with brutality often having little to no food. Most slaves were malnourished because their calorie intake was very low for the long days of work they performed. White owners of the slaves usually denied the accusations of abusing their slaves. Slaves in the South were treated as property and and owners could do what they wanted to them ("Slavery"). Slavery is morally wrong and the people of the North recognized it quite quickly. Slavery should not be a thing because the idea of owning another person is

The South started the war in order to preserve the practice of slavery and help the southern economy while the North joined to preserve the Union. Slavery was a very important trait in the southern states and they were not going to give it up too easily. Slavery made the United States the number one supplier of cotton throughout the world. The southern economy was bolstering with money, and they saw no other way to make reasonable money. The northerners saw it as something inhumane. Slavery had its positives for the South, but the North thought they could manage without the slaves and still be profitable without slaves. Slavey never actually became popular in the northern states because of the difference in weather and the difficulty growing crops. The northern states stuck to machinery and made new progress with new inventions. They spent their time making the railroads and working in factories as opposed to almost all if the southerners who grew various crops such as corn, tobacco and of course cotton