Because of the North and South's irreconcilable economic, political, and social differences, the Civil War was inevitably bound to happen. Economically, the South's heavy reliance on cotton as the main part of their economy made the notion of abolishing slavery seem out of the question in their eyes. This is contrary to the industrial economy in the North, which focused more on factories than farming, and could flourish even without slaves. Politically, the South believed that the Union could stay unified while remaining half slave and half free, while the North adamantly believed that the idea of having a half free and half slave nation was impossible. Socially, radical abolitionists such as John Brown and Nat Turner as well as authors such as Harriet Beecher Stowe awakened the passions of the North towards the moral issues of slavery. The South, on the other hand, considered slaves to be...