CAUSES OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

 
Oval: Northern states very industrial.

Southern Economy
 
Oval: No slave labour

Cotton = 57% of US economy
 
Oval: In favour of high tariffs
      TENSIONS 

Lots of Slave Labour
 		 Oval: New states were to be free states

Opposed high tariffs on goods
 
Oval: Very dependent on central government

New states were to be slave states.
 

Not very dependent on central government.
 
Oval: Abolitionists

Dred Scott Case