Causes of War

In the first half of the XIX century in the United States there were two systems - slavery in the south and in the north of capitalism. These were two very different socio-economic systems that co-existed in the same state. The situation is aggravated by the fact that, despite the steady increase in population growth and economic development, the United States is a federal country. Each state had lived their political and economic life, the integration process is slow.Therefore the South where slavery was common, and the agrarian economic system, and the industrial North stood out in two separate economic regions.
To the North the United States sought to entrepreneurs and the bulk of the emigrants. In this region, focused enterprise engineering, metalworking, light industry. Here, the main labor force were many immigrants from other countries who were working in factories, plants and other enterprises. Of workers in the North were enough demographic situation here was stable and adequate standard of living. The opposite situation exists in the South. The U.S. during the Mexican-American War got a huge area in the south, where there was a large amount of available land. These lands were settled planters who have received huge land holdings. That is why, unlike the North South was an agrarian region.However, in the South was one big problem: not enough workers. The majority of emigrants went to the North, so in Africa, dating back to the XVII century, slaves were imported negros. By the beginning of secession quarter of the white population of the South was the slave owners.
Despite all the differences between the regions in the South were the same social changes that in the North. In the North, providing a flexible tax policy, money from state budgets allocated to charity, to some extent, the government sought to improve the living conditions of the black population. However, a conservative and closed the South were not carried out measures for the emancipation of women and the rights of blacks in the equation with the whites.A big role in the outlook Southerners played a so-called "elite" - wealthy slave owners who had privately owned large parcels of land. This "leadership" has played a role in the politics of the southern states, as has been interested in maintaining its dominant position.
South was an agrarian "appendage" of the U.S., there were grown crops such as tobacco, sugar cane, cotton and rice. North needed the raw materials from the South, especially in cotton, but the South - in the cars of the North. So for a long time, two different economic regions coexist in a single country. Gradually, however, the growing contradictions between them. Among the most pressing issues of the conflict are the following:

1. Tax on goods imported (North tried to make them as high as possible in order to protect its own industry, the South wanted to trade freely with the world.)
2. Problems around slavery (as to whether fugitive slaves free in the free states to penalize providing them with shelter, whether southern states prohibit in its territory free blacks, and so on).
3. The situation was not static: U.S. seized new territory, and there were disputes over the future constitution of each of the states in the first place - whether the new free or slave state. The coming to power of Lincoln, declared that all new states would be free, meant for the future of the southern states to remain in the minority in the future play in the Congress on all disputed issues of the North.