In my opinion, the seeds of the Civil War were planted during the Constitution Convention when slavery and the slave trade were left hanging. The delegates felt they had to so that they could end up with a constitution at all. My belief is that since slavery seemed to be dying, the Founding Fathers though it would die out and cease to be an issue. The invention of the cotton gin and the addition of western lands refueled the growth of slavery. The issue became too toxic for either side to compromise. There were plenty of wrongs on both sides and we are still arguing them 150 years later.
That was definitely part of the equation.
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