Political Differences Between The North And South Before The Civil War

The North always had more than the South. Kids in the South had barely any education. The South had small amounts everything, except for farms. Both Northerners and Southerners lived in the same country, but the way they did things were very diverse. Even though the United States was a joint country, there were many social, economic, and political differences that occurred between the North and South before the Civil War.

The Underground Railroad was known as an escape route for slaves trying to escape the South. Harriet Tubman, Northern abolitionists, philanthropists, and Quaker Thomas Garret helped encourage slaves to escape. Southerners did not like the idea of “outsiders” disrupting the establishment of slavery, which made them angry. Some slaveholders offered rewards of $40,000 to those who could capture
Conflict rose between pro-slavery and anti-slavery pioneers. This conflict led to Bleeding Kansas. The bill became part of the political whirlwind that split two major political parties. This made the relationship between the North and South worse. Dred Scott was a man, who wanted to be emancipated because he had moved from the North and was free, but when he moved to Missouri he was a slave because it is a slave state. The decision of the case made the tension between the North and South worse than it already was. The tension kept growing and eventually the Civil War happened three years later. Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. Before his inaugural ceremony he was able to get several Southern states to secede. Abraham Lincoln did not like the captivity of slaves. The South did not like Abraham Lincoln. He made the Emancipation Proclamation that was issued in 1863, that states all slaves be freed in the rebellious states. Two years later, Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed by John Wilkes