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I Introduction
During the pre-civil war era, slavery had its ups and downs. Before the cotton gin,
slavery was beginning to wind down and the many viewed it to actually lower the US
economy. That was the view until the cotton gin was invented. Eli Whitney’s invention
reinvigorated slavery and cotton became king. The chief and immediate cause of the war
was slavery. Southern states, including the 11 states that formed the Confederacy,
depended on slavery to support their economy. Southerners used slave labor to produce
crops, especially cotton. Only a small percentage actually had slaves and few actually
treated them like family. The others treated the slaves like dirt and worked them to death.
Although slavery was illegal in the Northern states, only a small proportion of
Northerners actively opposed it. Many felt that slavery was wrong but had a air of
superiority about blacks, free and enslaved. The main debate between the North and the
South on the eve of the war was whether slavery should be permitted in the Western
territories recently acquired during the Mexican War (1846-1848), including New
Mexico, part of California, and Utah. Opponents of slavery were concerned about its
expansion, in part because they did not want to compete against slave labor. By 1860, the
North and the South had developed into two very different regions. Divergent social,
economic, and political points of view, dating from colonial times, gradually drove the
two sections farther and farther apart. Each tried to impose its point of view on the
country as a whole. Although compromises had kept the Union together for many years,
in 1860 the situation was explosive. The election of Abraham Lincoln as president was
viewed by the South as a threat to slavery and ignited the war. The slaves had no say on
the subject,...
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