Civil War: Inevitable or a mess of needless Casualties.

The Civil war was a time in American History more bloody than any preceding battle or time period that anyone had ever experienced. Over 600,000 people died in this battle for the Union, and the nation its self was changed forever. Many historians argue over whether or not the civil war was inevitable or not; a battle that could have been avoided or a battle that was necessary for any more growth and development in the Union. Both sides can be argued, but the stance that is most believable is the thought that while the amount of blood shed over the course of the civil war was a tragedy that may have been avoided, there would never have been a way for the two sides, North and South, to exist peaceably without some release of the building tensions.
The tension between the North and the South had been building from the very end of the American revolution. The North, a merchant society with many factories and large cities, had the brash champion Hamilton to rule it. His opponent, Jefferson, stood for the South; a agrarian and city-phobic society bent on the idea that the merchant middle class would eventually take over their farms and lay ruin to all the South knew as their own. This was the very beginning of the tension between Northern and Southern ideals, so as we know this idea of two halves of the nation came all the way from the very beginning.
The two were able to get along for most of the time, with minor fighting between Calhoun and Jackson, but there was no real trouble until the slavery issue came up. The South, agrarian and dependent upon the free labour to run the gargantuan plantations, needed the slaves to continue with their way of life. The North, however, did not believe slavery to be moral and did not want it to continue. They were used to the large immigrant and freedmen population, and were not dependent upon the slaves to run their factories or workshops (they had plenty of children workers and underpaid citizens for that). The North was increasingly gaining influence in the government, and as more and more states started to become a part of the union, more and more people feared the idea of an imbalance in the states.
This fear came true with Kansas and Nebraska. When the Kansas and Nebraska act was passed, Southerners were enraged, because it seemed as though the North was getting all they wanted. Some may argue that it was at this point that the tension needed to be released, or else there would be no way for the union to move forward, the system of checks and balances in government working to create essentially a stalemate, and I must agree with them. At this point, the tension between the two halves had built so much that there really was no way to escape any possibility of a conflict, and while the casualties may have been unnecessary, there needed to be a release of the lock between the two halves.