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One thing that interested me in this chapter was that slavery wasn't the main contributor to the civil war. It was the economical aspect of the country and specifically between the north and south. after the cotton gin was created by Eli Whitney, the south was in incredible need of slaves for the cotton industry. They needed much more labor to turn out bigger profits. The economy in the south depended highly on the slaves to work the farms and agriculture. The south needed slaves and if they didn't have them the south wouldn't have survived. The north was against slavery because their economy didn't depend on slaves so the states up north were declared free states. However, if a slave had moved to the north to become free, it couldn't happen because blacks didn't have rights. This pleased the South because they were upset before from Kansas becoming a free state.

Sources: Oe15tylargrimes. "Slavery and events leading up to the Civil War." //Time Toast //.  oe15tylargrimes, n.d. Web. 3 Sept. 2015.  timelines/slavery-and-events-leading-up-to-the-civil-war>.
 * McDougal, Holt. //The Americans 2012//. 1 of 1 ed. EPub: n.p., 2012. Print. ||