Civil War
The Cause Of The Civil War: Eli Whitney's Cotton GinDuring the period between 1790 and 1850, the United States was rapidly changing. It was now a separate country with its own economy, laws, and government. The country was learning to live on its own, apart from England. There began to appear a rift between North and South. The North believing in the Puritan Merchant role model, and the South in the role model of the English Country Squire. The North traded with everyone, while the South traded primarily with England. The major crop in the South was tobacco, and because of the decline in the price of tobacco the slave trade was dying, just as those in the North hoped it would. Then came a man, and an invention, which changed the course of history. In 1792, Eli Whitney visited the plantation of Catherine Greene, the wife of Revolutionary War general, Nathaniel Greene, near Savannah Georgia. He watched cotton being cleaned; a very long and time consuming process to do by hand. Watching the cotton being cleaned an idea came to Whitney. He decided he would build a machine that would clean cotton faster than it could be done by hand. Thus, he created the cotton gin. This invention changed the way the South functioned, and the rippl
This continued until 1838 when, despite a Supreme Court order, federal troops drove the last of the Cherokee from the land, that covered Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina to Oklahoma where many of them died. This continuation of slavery by the South led to a ripple effect that can be seen as a driving force behind the events that led up to the Civil War. Not even religion held together the North and South and the conflict only escalated because of the lack of communication between both sides. The cotton gin created a market for slavery. This caused yet another conflict between the North and South. was moving inexorably to a conflict between merchant and farmer, slave and free, and ultimately North and South. The North feared that the South could then pass pro-slavery laws against their objections, and defeat any further laws restricting the spread of slavery. Protestant churches began to divide of the issue of slavery, each taking a side, free or slave. This compromise only delayed the inevitable. Texas was eventually allowed into the Union, but the conflict between Mexico and the U. With the admission of Texas to the Union, power in the Senate had swung to the South. The churches that felt slaves should be free existed primarily in the North, and the Southern counterparts held no different view of theology, but instead divided over a moral issue. The North, once again, feared that Texas would swing the control of the government back to the slaveholding South.
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