ve it was by using force. He was a member of the radicals, who tried to abolish slavery by defying the law and not a member of the gradualists who tried to abolish slavery through legal means. Brown and his sons went to Kansas to fight against the pro-slavery terrorists there and finally his last venture was in 1859 when he and 18 men seized the US Arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia and won control of the town. Later the US marines under the command of Robert E. Lee arrested and charged Brown with treason and murder, he was hanged on the 2 December. People such as this contributed greatly to the cause against slavery that in the end was one of the most important causes of the start of the Civil War.The second major cause of the American Civil War was the extremely different societies of North and South. The north was none slave owning, as I’ve already mentioned, and the south was slave owning; these were not the only differences in their two societies. The South was extremely agricultural, produced cash crops-cotton, tobacco and sugar cane, which they would export either to the north or to Europe. The North on the other hand was very industrial, with many factories with paid laborers, and manufactured much of the equipment that the south required for their economic structure. Not only were their two economic structures different but also were their life styles and the parts of America that they lived in. In the South there was a tropical climate with rivers and land inhabited by wild animals, such as alligators. Also the people in the south had different accents and they lived much a different lifestyle to the Northerners. In the North they too had a different climate, one where it would snow in winter and in general would be much colder then the south. Their lifestyle was very formal compared to the south and lastly the two sides had very different political ideas. These differences made the North and South seem like completely d...
