The Legacy Of The American Civil War - 921 Words

â€Å"Where there are men there will be war.† A simple statement made by one of the greatest thinkers of our generation, Albert Einstein. As a nation in its developmental stages there would be moments and trials that would define as a country and as a species. None more prevalent in our development than the civil war. Our founding fathers sought to create a perfect government, in which every individual has a voice. In certain aspects they succeeded greatly but in others they failed. The north and south developed completely different. While the north wanted to change by becoming more industrialized, the south remained the same. The American civil war was bond to happen due to the north and south arguments regarding slavery, the Compromise of†¦show more content†¦These were all great men, with an education and a deeper level of understanding. But when they sought out to create a perfect government and failed, they did do simply for the fact that they were imperfect men and as imperfect men we are destined for failure, trial and error. The Compromise of 1850, although it was made to help the union, it failed miserably. It caused more tension then what was already present. In September 1850 five laws were passed under the Compromise. They dealt with none other then the biggest issue, slavery. The laws were upsetting the balance between free and slave states. In 1849 California requested permission to enter the Union as a free state, it was granted. This was important for the north. Slave trade was banned from the District of Colombia meaning less slaves brought to the union. Mexico and Utah can now vote on slavery. Slave trade in Washington D.C. was eliminated. The Fugitive Slave Act was a part of the Compromise of 1850 and it increased sectional tensions over the issue of slavery. This act was supposed to require northerners to return runaway slaves to bondage in the South. Large numbers of northerners tried to prevent the enforcement of the act by refusing to return these runaway slaves to the South. This cau sed a small civil war in the territory know as â€Å"bleeding