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This 10 page paper examines some of the issues leading to the American Civil War, including slavery, states’ rights, and the expansion of slavery into the territories. Bibliography lists 4 sources
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some of the major issues, political debates and disagreements that led to the outbreak of war. Discussion Many scholars agree that the origins of the Civil War go back to
the Revolutionary War and the founding of the nation with slavery still a part of its heritage. By refusing to deal with slavery, which they knew was problematic at best;
the Constitutions authors set the stage for the conflict that would break out 80 years later. Slavery must be considered the most important issue with regard to the causes of
the war; many of the other problems stem from it, such as the debates over whether new states would come into the union as slave or free states. Slavery in
the U.S. "began in Virginia in 1619," but by the end of the Revolutionary War, most of the north had abandoned the practice (Hickman, 2008). In the south, however, it
expanded as the plantation system grew (Hickman, 2008). The main crop grown in the South was cotton, but it was so difficult to handle-it took an entire day to get
the seeds out of one pound of cotton by hand-that it wasnt particularly profitable, at least not until Eli Whitney invented his cotton gin (Faragher et al, 2000). He invented
the machine in 1793 and it proved so successful that by the mid-1830s cotton was "King" in the South (Faragher et al, 2000). Cotton was an extremely profitable crop
and was the "nations major export" in the early decades of the 19th century (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 298). It was also extremely "well suited to the southern plantation
system of agriculture" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 298). The plantation system was "characterized by large plantings of a single crop tended by gangs of workers who performed the same
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