"Slavery was of course the root of the war. But from the nation's founding (when the process of gradual emancipation began in the North) until 1850, the North and South agreed on a series of compromises that prevented the powder keg of slavery from exploding. The first compromise followed the crisis in 1819 over Missouri entering the Union as a slave state, which erupted "like a firebell in the night," as Thomas Jefferson put it (Life and Selected Writings, p. 698). It was the first major crisis over slavery, and it shattered a tacit agreement between the two regions that had been in place since the Constitution."
Slavery was one of the main reasons that Civil War broke out. There was many compromises between the North and the South that prevented Civil War from breaking out. The first compromise ever made was after a crisis in 1819 when Missouri entered the Unionh as a slave state. It was the first major crisis over slavery.
Civil War. (n.d.). Retrieved February 6, 2012, from Enotes: http://www.enotes.com/civil-war-67481-reference/civil-war
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