he case was that the slaveholder’s private property was “taken for public use, without just compensation.” Because his opinion of the Constitution was debatable, he provoked bitter dissent in Northern quarters.With these events taken together, the prosperity or destruction of our nation rested alone on one problem: slavery. If the United States of America were to form two different “cultures” because of slavery only, then the peace and freedom of our people were to be lost. Many historians agree on this statement about slavery and its affect on our nation: “Slavery was condemned as a menace to the peace and safety of our nation.” Author and historian Dwight Dumond stated that slavery alone would disrupt the American form of the “Pax Romana,” or period of harmony and serenity, after the American Revolution. Because of this, our country would later be split apart and torn by one of the bloodiest wars every fought in America’s history. Slavery is the only problem I this country to be large enough to incite a civil war. While it may be the main cause of all other problems leading up the Civil War, it was not the last.Although slavery did much to begin the Civil War, economic differences between the North and the South ultimately became another reason for this bloody series of battles. The North was expanding more in the commercial and industrial side while the South was reliant on agriculture. This next excerpt from an encyclopedia explains in part about the different paths of the North and South:“But Sectionalism grew steadily stronger. In the 19th century the South remained almost completely agricultural, with an economy and social order largely founded on black slavery and the plantation. These mutually independent institutions produced the staples, especially cotton, from which the South derived its wealth. The North had its own great agricultural resources,...
