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AP Essay
Ever since its beginning, the debate over cause of the Civil War has created enormous controversy. To many people, the cause of this terrible conflict was the issue of slavery, and the failure of the North and South to solve this issue. To others, the war was caused by the North’s economic and political aggression towards the South. However, the war itself was caused by the failure of the democratic institution of the United States. With a democratic government, the US government was unable to effectively solve the issue of slavery and Northern dominance over the South. The reason behind this failure, according to Avery Craven, was that democratic institutions themselves aren’t built to address passionate and controversial issues such as slavery because they are not built to do so. In other words, the cause of the civil war was the breakdown of the democratic process. Though the democratic US government attempted to solve the issue of slavery, it ultimately......
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