Conflicts Between The North And The South

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the South said that they would trade with the North if they built more factories to process the cotton. The North bitterly opposed this idea. They felt that it was too risky to build more factories and lose a profit. The North would said that if they, the South, slowed down their cotton crop then there would be enough factories to process the cotton. The South disagreed of course, leading to a never-ending quarrel between the two sections. The two sections also had different economic leaders. The North had capitalists, people who invested money to make profits. The capitalists invested their money into factories and so forth. The South's economic leaders were the planters. Planters were people who owned a plantation and owned twenty or more slaves.
The North and the South not only differed with economics but also politics. The political views of the section differed greatly. The North was trying to abolish slavery and the South wanted to keep it. The differences became so alarming ...

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