A House Dividing: As Civil War Loomed in the 1850s, Why Couldn’t North and South Get Along by David Morris Potter


A House Dividing: As Civil War Loomed in the 1850s, Why Couldn’t North and South Get Along
Title : A House Dividing: As Civil War Loomed in the 1850s, Why Couldn’t North and South Get Along
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Language : English
Format Type : Kindle Edition
Number of Pages : 45
Publication : First published September 8, 2014

The guns had scarcely cooled after Appomattox when historians began debating the causes of the American Civil War. Why had North and South grown apart? Had it been all about slavery as a moral question? Or were less visible economic interests at work? Perhaps the cultures of the two sections had finally produced irreconcilable differences. The debates continue to this day, with an occasional nugget of new information to spark revised interpretations. But nowhere is the reader likely to find a more brilliant and succinct analysis than in David Potter’s account of the major events that led to war.

A House Dividing: As Civil War Loomed in the 1850s, Why Couldn’t North and South Get Along Reviews

  • Tim Null

    Did slavery cause the Civil War, and, if so, why did it cause the bust-up at this point in time? Why not earlier? Or later?
    Potter answers these questions.

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  • Mike Lund

    Short but incredible read

    I actually bought this book by mistake. At $2.99 for 41 pages, it’s relatively expensive. But what an incredible succinct review of the underlying divisions between the Northern and Southern cultures that resulted in the South Secedes. Certainly a high level discussion, but very illuminating. Well worth reading.

    Disagreement over slavery was the elephant in the room. It drove serious cultural, political and economic divisions between the northern and southern cultures. But, the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Dred Scott case, March 6,1857 found that the Missouri Compromise (1820),and other laws outlawing slavery were unconstitutional. The Corbin Constitutional Amendment, (March 2, 1861) had passed both the House and Senate and was already sent to the states for ratification. It prohibited congressional interference with slavery where it was already established. Both Lincoln and Buchanan approved it and Lincoln had sent a letter to each state Governor supporting it. Slavery may have been the root cause of the cultural and political differences, but legally, slavery was staying. There are many books on the mechanics of the war. The What and Where. This is the why. It was the emotions produced by these differences that inflamed southern passions. I found the book enlightening. It discussed many issues not considered in other books. .