Topic > Inevitable or Avoidable - 1646

With all the events that happened before the war, I believe the civil war was inevitable. It had to happen and I believe it did, given all the differences between the North and the South. Issues like slavery caused conflict between both sides. The election of Abraham Lincoln also caused the outbreak of war. Many laws caused controversy, such as the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which contributed to the war. Finally, the idea of ​​free slaves caused a lot of problems between the North and the South. War was inevitable and was bound to happen, and it was hoped that it would solve all the problems between the North and the South. By learning and reading about the events that led to the Civil War, I thought to myself that there was no way to prevent the war. One way I knew this was because of the talk of slavery. During the war period, slavery was seen as a good thing and a bad thing. The North was against the idea of ​​slavery and did everything to try to abolish it, while the South strongly supported slavery. Since slavery brought good labor and economic privilege to the South, I can understand why they would support it. What brought both sides into conflict would be the way Southerners treated slaves. New laws, such as the Fugitive Slave Act, light a fuse between Northerners and Southerners, separating both sides. A feud began between the North and the South when the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was passed. Before this law went into effect, the nation was dealing with the problem of fugitive slaves. Fugitive slaves had nothing to fear other than capture when they ran away from their masters. Now, they had. This law stated that if a fugitive slave was to be captured, he must be returned to his masters (Roark 338). Northerners were afraid of this law because they believed that free slaves could be captured and taken away from a slave master. Because of their concern for free slaves and other slaves’