The Civil war was a result of series of events. Southern region was in favor of slavery whereas North was antislavery. Though there were other factors as well but slavery was the main factor in increasing the sectional conflicts between the two regions.
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Sectional Conflict: slavery, sectionalism sow seeds of war No visitor to the United States left a more enduring record of his travels and observations than the French writer and political theorist Alexis de Tocqueville, whose Democracy in America, first published in 1835, remains one of the most trenchant and insightful analyses of American social and political practices. Tocqueville was far too shrewd an observer to be uncritical about the United States, but his verdict was fundamentally positive. The government of a democracy brings the notion of political rights to the level of the humblest citizens, he wrote, just as the dissemination of wealth brings the notion of property within the reach of all men. Nonetheless, Tocqueville was only one in the first of a long line of thinkers to worry whether such rough equality could survive in the face of a growing factory system that threatened to create divisions between industrial workers and a new business elite. Other travelers marveled at the growth and vitalit