America divided

    The civil war was the war that split the nation into 2, Anti-Slavery and Pro-Slavery. It lasted from 1861-1865. The North and South were very different during these times. The North was rapidly industrializing and booming. They focused on trade, building canals, building railroads, factoring machines, moving away from farms and working with tools. The South was still focused on Agriculture and creating crops. Plantation owners dominated the south and still believed that southern wealth rested on the back of slaves. 

    In 1793, Eli Whitney created the cotton Jin, allowing slaves to collect cotton faster and easier. After a while slaves started to revolve against their masters. Slaves were poisonings their masters, fighting back, burning down barns, moving North, etc. Anything they could to stop slavery. In 1830, William Garrison created the abolition movement. The North was ok with this but the South was not. The North began to fight against slavery while the South kept defending it. Southerners would start arguing that in the North they make women and children work 10-12 hours in horrible conditions. 

    The south believed they couldn't grow without slavery, and were willing to go to war for it. The nation was split. Slave state or not? Stephen Douglas fought against Abe Lincoln on how states were allowed to vote Pro or Anti Slavery. The North and South became 2 countrys and it was time for war.