“Lack of compromise led to the Civil War”?
No, it was too much compromise that led to the Civil War, starting in the 1820’s.
The seeds were sown by the Missouri Compromise, The Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas Nebraska Act. And by Supreme Court “compromise” rulings like Dred Scott.
Compromise and indecisiveness also led to the demise of the Whig Party, and the start of the Republican Party, which is now on a suicide watch as it emulates the Whig Party on modern issues where it constantly “reaches across the aisle” to help the democrat socialists enact anti-American laws and destroy American culture.
16 Compromising Republicans were tossed aside by the American voters for a non-compromising Donald Trump who actually stood for principles that previously had no defenders.
Compromise, General?
Tell that to the democrats.
When US political parties first formed in the 1790s, they were pro-Constitution Federalists and anti-Constitution anti-Federalists.
Federalists eventually became Whigs who became Republicans.
Anti-Federalists became Jefferson & Jackson Democrats.
The Whigs split & became defunct in the 1850s over the issue of slavery.
Northern Whigs opposed slavery & became Republicans.
Southern Whigs supported slavery, but remained Unionists in 1860 and eventually formed the core of today's Southern Republicans.