USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -It had many causes, but there were two main issues that split the nation: first was the issue of slavery, and second was the balance of power in the federal government. The South was primarily an agrarian society. Throughout the South were large plantations that grew cotton, tobacco and other labor-intensive crops.

Detailed explanation-2: -After the Revolutionary War, many Northern citizens wanted slavery to be abolished on a national scale as well. Many Southern states, however, felt they needed to keep the institution of slavery in order to maintain the agricultural economy based around cash crops like tobacco and rice.

Detailed explanation-3: -Tensions between settlers and former indentured servants increased the pressure to find a new labor source. Early in the seventeenth century, a Dutch ship loaded with African slaves introduced a solution-and yet paradoxically a new problem-to the New World.

Detailed explanation-4: -Slavery played the central role during the American Civil War. The primary catalyst for secession was slavery, especially Southern political leaders’ resistance to attempts by Northern antislavery political forces to block the expansion of slavery into the western territories.

Detailed explanation-5: -All of the issues that divided the nation during the build up to the Civil War, there are four categories they can be classified under: Slavery, Cultural (Social), Economic, and Constitutional (Political). All of these issues led to sectionalism in the United States and pushed the country to the brink of war.