Some of the issues that divided our nation and led to the civil War were

• cultural

• economic

• constitutional

The Union States - Northern states

The economy was primarily mechanical labor to create material goods.

The Confederate State - southern states

The economy was mainly growing and harvesting crops and raising animals.

Abolitionists

People who campaigned to end slavery, they wanted to end slavery.

Abolitionists

• Nat Turner - VA slave, led a revolt against plantation owners

• Harriet Tubman - supported secret routes for enslaved African Americans

• John Brown - led a raid on the United States Armory at Harper's Ferry, VA

• Abraham Lincoln - elected president of the United States in 1860.