Economic Benefits Of Slavery

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The Civil War during 1861-1865 is the bloodiest war in the American history with over 600,000 people dead and many others wounded. That figure exceeds those of the World War I, World War II, and Vietnam War in combined. At that time, the Union had been going through multiple wars together such as the Revolutionary War, the Seminole War, and several wars with the native Indian tribes. Those “togetherness” experiences help to draw the separate states closer, and to develop their trusts of a strong Union. Why brothers of a stably-growing country has to fight each other in such a long and costly war? Economic differences and protecting state rights from the federal tyranny are argued to be direct causes of the fight. However, slavery is the root …show more content…

The individual states reaction test show strong the reaction of each state was when slavery was banned. The southern states showed varied reactions in coherent to its economic dependence to the slavery system. Those states that economic strength was hurt by ending slavery the most, about twenty-four to forty-two percent income, left the Union first . The second group that left the Union had the income loss percentage ranging from seventeen to nineteen percent. The rest of the southern states that did not leave the Union barely had any income change if the slavery was banned. Their different reaction in accordance to their independence from the economic return proved that the economic benefit of slavery is the main issue for their secession. On the other hand, the social orders also make a contribution to the south’s effort to keep the slavery …show more content…

The continental railroads were designed to go through an unorganized territory west to the Missouri, which is known as Nebraska. Acknowledging the opposition of the south, Stephen Douglas, a Senator from Illinois, proposed a bill that allowed the new territory to choose to have slave or not. It later became the Kansas-Nebraska Act which accepted Kansas as a slave state. The Missouri Compromise was repealed, and slavery continued to expand throughout the Union. This time, the controversy around slavery did not ended peacefully, but created strong conflicts that divided both the major parties at the time, the Democrats and Whigs. The establishment of a new party, the Republican, which openly against slavery pushed the constraints further. This event is a clear proof that series of temporary compromises could not solve the issue. Fully acknowledging this, Abraham Lincoln did not seek for a compromise when the controversy around slavery came to its

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