“A house divided against itself cannot stand”, words from Abraham Lincoln(Doc. M). You will need to know that when President Lincoln said that quote, this “house” he talks of is the United States. You also will need to know that the North and South had different perspectives about slavery, the North did not like slavery, the South did. Anyway, the Civil War was caused by the issue of the North’s and South’s different opinions. The first reason was about economic differences. The North had a Industrial economy with lots of railroads and many more machines to make work more efficient. The South had a Agricultural economy with lots of cash crops such as tobacco, rice, indigo, and most money making crop, cotton. The southwestern area made more