From Slavery to Civil War: How Tensions and Immigration Shaped Americas Divisive Past

Name: Institutional Affiliations: Date: American History Before 1877 Introduction Slavery serves as a potential backbone of the American economy. The African Americans serve as the pioneer population that defined slavery role within the United States, which resulted in the rapid growth of this great nation’s economy. However, slavery played a significant role in fostering the American civil war. Slavery's role enhanced the sectional conflicts between the Northerners and the Southerners. Ever since time immemorial, apparent differences emerged between the South and the northern states attributed to the slavery issue. The opinion of slave ownership between the North and the South state differed immensely. These differences led to many debates on the constitutionality of slave succession and ownership. Unfortunately, the conflicts grew in size and violence, leading to a brutal war whose effects remain felt to date. Though there are many events and turning points that fostered the civil war, this essay aims at analyzing tension between Mexicans and immigrants in 1829, the influx of immigration in the mid-1840s, and the panic of 1857 as the most significant events that fostered the civil war making it inevitable. Primary event that fostered civil war and defined its inevitability To what extent did tension between Mexicans and Immigrants in 1829 foster permanent conflicts leading to civil war? In 1829, Mexico