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Katy Sarkissian The Civil War was an inevitable struggle due to the primary cause of the political, economic, and social aspects of sectionalism between the North and the South; the Panic of 1857 and the South?s overconfidence in ?King Cotton?, led to economic conflict; laws and compromises, such as the Fugitive Slave Law and the Missouri Compromise, developed undesirable results for the South and showed the disregard of the North toward the South; and finally the Northern sentiment of antislavery fashioned by novels, such as Uncle Tom?s Cabin which brought about social conflict between the North and South.