Why couldn't the North and South

Reasons why

• Slavery
• State's rights 
• Differences in culture and economy

Slavery

• Slavery had been banned in the North 
• Confederates kept it because they based their economy off of slave labor 
• The north thought this went against all the US was based off of(freedom)
• Abolitionists feared that new state would be admitted as slave states
• So Compromises were made in effort to keep the US united.

State's Rights

• The North and South quarreled over  interpretation of the US constitution 
• Northerners wanted a loose interpretation, giving federal gov. the power 
• Southerners wanted to reserve the States' rights
• Meaning that the states could create their own gov.

Differences in culture and Economy

• The South's economy was based off of slave labor and plantations 
• The North's economy was built from industries and factories
• Tariffs affected the south more than the north 
• Tariffs placed taxes  on imported goods
• The South required a lot of imported goods for plantations

All these differences led to the Civil War

Bibliography

• “Causes of the Civil War” Britannica School Web. 19 May 2014 
• “American Civil War” Britannica Image Quest Web. 19 May 2014\
• “Civil War Causes.” BrainPOP. Web. 19 May 2014
• “Civil War American” World Book Web. 19 May 2014  

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