The Pivotal Role of Slavery in Fueling the U.S. Civil War (1780-1860)

Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Cause of Civil War in the United States of America (1780-1860) Introduction Slavery played a significant role in fostering the American civil war. Ever since time immemorial, clear differences emerged between the South and the northern states attributed to 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 is still 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. Role slavery played in driving a wedge between the North and the South. 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, the slavery role enhanced the sectional conflicts between the Northerners and the Southerners, causing sound differences between the two states. In its simplest form, slavery is defined as legally owning other person/persons and forcing the owned characters to work or obey the slave owner. It is an act of categorizing possessed persons as properties or assets of the owner with no rights beyond their owner wish. Just as a person legal