Why was the American Civil war inevitable?

How six men might have saved the lives of 650,000 Americans. We usually look back on the Civil War an inevitable clash between two cultures. But America's sectional conflict was actually the outcome of hundreds of turning points, at least six of which occurred between 1859 and 1861. read more

The Civil War was almost certainly inevitable. The politics of slavery dominated America's political life and distorted America's domestic and foreign policies. read more

The preceding years of the Civil War were formative years in American history. In 1860,out of 32 million people more than 4 million were slaves and there was an ever widening gap between poor and rich. read more