THE INEVITABILITY OF THE BREAKUP OF THE UNION By Sam Tooker The breakup of the Union was inevitable. The south was always going to secede; it was just a question of when. The southern and northern states varied on many issues. There were deep economic, social, and political differences between the north and the south. All of this was a different interpretation of the United States Constitution on both sides. In the end, all of …showed first 75 words of 1219 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1219 total…willingly. When the south declared independence from the union Abraham Lincoln said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free." Because slavery formed two opposing societies, and slavery could never be abolished, the Civil War was inevitable.(5) Bibliography KEY (1)-An argument against single-crop economy (2)-Racial Prejudice in the North (3)-A Northern Poet’s View of Slavery (4)-In Defense of Slavery (5)-United States History Textbook