Sectional Conflicts and the American Civil War: Slavery, Economy, and Politics

Name: Institutional Affiliations: Date: Sectional conflicts and the Civil War Slavery serves as the major reason behind the sectional conflicts experienced by the Northerners and the Southerners. According to Brinkley (1993), starting in the early 1850s, Northerners expressed their hostility to the idea of slavery on moral grounds while the Southerners continued to accept slavery as a potential fact of their lives. The North advocated for the need to stop the spread of slavery to the western states as the act proved evil and inhuman. Contrary to the Northern urge to terminate slavery within the United States, the Southerners' desires for unpaid workers to enhance cotton picking at their disposal strengthened this state's desires and need for more slaves, thus supported slavery in totality. Such differences defined sectional lines on slavery between the North and the South. The North and the South can be defined as two Americas that existed within the