The Coming of the American Civil War

The American Civil War is traditionally categorized as a war about slavery. North's victory and the subsequent release of the slave's part two a glorification of the war in the modern consciousness as a war between "good" (Northern States) and "evil" (the South) where the good prevailed, Thereby assuring freedom, cohesion and association As much of our time, so that President Lincoln's Holdings, formed the model for President Barack Obama ahead of his inauguration as the 44th U.S. president. The war, however, was the culmination of an internal conflict in the United States, not only rooted in disagreement over access to the use of slaves, but in general the (south)states access to self-determination, including whether the federal law would override the state law or not. The American Civil War, which erupted in 1961, could be broken as early as 1820, when the balance of power between free states and slave states would inevitably be upset with the inclusion of Missiouri as a state in the Union.

This leads to the following questions: By what legal means on the federal level was the outbreak of an American Civil War sought avoided before 1861?

2.1 The Missouri Compromise 1820

2.2 The reduction of tariff schedules 1833

2.3 Supreme Court Case Barron v. Mayor of Baltimore, 32 U.S. (7 Pet.) 243 (1833)

2.4 Clay’s Resolution 1850 (The Wilmot Proviso 1846-47)

2.5 Supreme Court Case Dred Scott v. Sandford,60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857)

2.6 President Buchanans endorsement of the Lecompton Constitution 1857