Slavery North Vs South

In the time around the 1840's the United States of America was going through a time of controversy. The topic of slavery was on the tongue of just about every American in the north or the south. This topic really flew off the handle when just about every country in North America and Europe had abolished slavery from their practices. While all these various first-world countries were far beyond the idea of one man owning another the United States was still bickering about it. Both the north and the south had vastly different argument on the topic of slavery, that eventually led to an all-out war. The north's argument was that slavery was evil and morally unethical, while the south argued that it was the only thing capable of keeping the bustling
southern economy afloat. The north at this fragile time before the war was the side of the spectrum that was "anti-slavery." The north at this time was going through a drastic stage of reform.
This era of reform brought forth many new ideals, such as manifest destiny, Mormonism, transcendentalism, and women's rights. Nevertheless, all of this reform would eventually bring forth a new ideal of thinking, a more progressive ideal of thinking. Those in the north began the abolitionist movement. Those who supported colonization believed that the only thing that would rid the nation of slavery was actually bringing them back to Africa. However, it never got off the ground as even slaves did not support the idea. This idea was the worst of the bunch, but it provided new insights on civil rights. The rest of abolitions that wanted to keep African-Americans in the USA accomplished their task by spreading their message. Their message and argument was that all slaves once freed should not only be free in the eyes of the law, but enjoy every civil liberty a white man has. The north was changing very fast and their ideals on how the black man should be treated changed, instead of seeing them as people who made products for them to profit off of, they saw them as people without a true voice of their own. However, after this age of reform the abolitionist movement was exactly as strong as before, instead the main argument the north had about slavery was preventing its
expansion. The Wilmot Proviso (1846) was the first great example of preventing slavery's expansion. This bill proposed by an anti-slave congressmen from PA stated that any other state that entered the union would be free, this fell flat on its face, however it was the kickstart of a continuing movement by northern politicians. The most famous of these politicians would be Abraham Lincoln who advocated for this exact thing. He believed that the expansion of slavery should be halted, and this would help him become president. The argument of this of the north was not always the same, however as the years went by it had the same purpose, stopping slavery in its tracks, and pushing it off the rails into non-existence. The southern sector of the USA was predominately in the favor of preserving the laws of slavery and expanding it across every corner of the United States. The south at this time in history was the reason America was becoming such a bustling economy. In fact, the south supplied 75% percent of the worlds cotton production. Also the south provided all of the cotton that the north would use in their factories, and these factories would reap the benefits of the south's hard work without understanding the implications of these benefits. Slavery was responsible for all of these amenities and benefits that the world enjoyed. All the cotton was picked by slaves who were not being paid, so that meant the cost of cotton was a bit cheaper, and the overall profits from cotton were sky high. In the long and short of the situation, slavery was what drove the southern economy. The south argued that without slaves the whole economy of the USA would be impeded due to the increase in cotton, and if that didn't happen the south's economy would collapse. The south would also not just argue for the continuation of slavery, but the expansion of it as well. After 1845 when Texas was added to the union as a state the south saw an opportunity to grow their economy and their ideals across the USA as they had wanted to do since manifest destiny started.
As for slavery across the USA Texas was the first new state to be slave. This provided the south with the opportunity to create even more of a profit off of what they thought was normal (slavery.) When it came to the rest of the new states in the union some in the south thought that they should be slave, and some thought that slavery should be decided by the people of the state. Nevertheless, the central ideal was that slavery would have a very great chance to continue its course. In the following years the south would be turned into a group of secessionists as they were not able to expand upon slavery as free as they wanted too. They believed that the north did not respect them, and this convinced them to secede from the union after Abe Lincoln was elected after not winning one electoral vote in any southern state. The north and the south during the time leading up to the civil war had vastly different opinions when it came to slavery. The north as a majority wanted to stop slavery and free the black man making them part of the USA's culture, while the south wanted to maintain their steady economy and expand upon it creating more profit for their already profitable staple of slavery. Both of these clashing ideals would eventually lead to the civil war where a catastrophic amount of
atrocities happened.