The Divison of the North and South

In the time leading up to the civil war many changes were dividing our nation. The south because their agricultural economy was starting to slow down, was losing political influence. With technological advances our nation began to grow. The north’s industrial economy was thriving and provided the rest of the nation with jobs and manufactured goods. With all of the changes happening disaster could be everted only so many times. In 1829 Andrew Jackson took …

…its influence in politics to the old north west. The old north west not only emerged as the new agricultural center but it had some factories, a major city, Chicago, rail lines, and canals. Even before all of these technological advance the southern states thought that they were being cheated, and tried to defy the government. They failed miserably, with all of these emerging problems it threw our nation in course of some uncorrectable events.