Research Paper Before the mid-1800s, the North and South faced many disagreements involving economic differences. The differences were over slavery, representation, states' rights, and tariffs. There was a conflict with states wanting to balance the freedom of slaves in the states. Another cause was tariffs which involved the taxation of imported goods, the Northern states supported protective tariffs, but the South did not. As a result, conflicts began to grow and this increased the differences between North and South. During the first half of the 1800s, sectoral differences forced the North and South further apart. Differences between the North and South included the Missouri Compromise of 1820, the invention of the cotton gin, and the Uncle Tom novel. Additionally, most states had conflicts over slavery in their territory, one of which involved Missouri. Missouri applied for admission to the Union as a slave state; this became a problem because Missouri upset the balance between free slaves and slave states. Northern states wanted to ban slavery in Missouri because of the unbalanced situation it created compared to other states. In response, the Southern states declared that Congress had no power to ban slavery in Missouri. However, Henry Clay offers a solution, the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Missouri is admitted as a slave state and Maine becomes a free slave state. Slavery is prohibited in Louisiana by creating a 36 30 line in the southern border of Missouri; this maintained balance in the United States Senate. Furthermore, the slaves suffered greatly because the process of manually harvesting cotton seeds was time-consuming; it took patience to choose cotto... middle of paper... would not cause Northerners to take action against slavery. Differences regarding the balance of slavery took the first step toward advancing North and South apart. The plight of the South and their need to obtain more slaves due to increased cotton production also created a stir. The final blow was the publication of the novel that led Northerners to realize that slavery is completely wrong. These actions mainly caused the Civil War because many wanted the immediate action of abolishing slavery as it brought anti-slavery sentiments. It helped change society when they began to see that slavery was a problem. This did not end slavery entirely, but only caused the civil war which in return needed to be rebuilt. The situation was the same, except that the slaves were not in as bad a situation as before, they had food and shelter.