erefore aid societal well-being. Hard work,social mobility, that is what created a strong economy, not slave labor.2 Northern society was the prime example of the social system the south wanted tocreate, but the south was the antithesis of this ideology. The two regions hadconsiderably different economic and political ideas, and they were both heading indifferent directions economically. While the northern economy dealt with povertythrough its idea of westward expansion, the south did nothing about this. Its povertyseemed to grow, and it was becoming evident to the republican leaders that slavery justdid not work.3 “Desolate”, “polluted”, that is how the northern republicans described the south. They blamed it all on slavery. There was no middle class, no working class. It is thisclass that creates society. The workers who push industry along. They spend money,create money, and energize the economy. Without this middle class a society can notfunction. The middle class of the north desired change. They desired a better status insociety. It was a motivated social class. The southern laborers had grown lazy. Theywere complacent in their lives. They did not crave social mobility. Happy with alifestyle thrust upon them by birth, they lived impoverished. They had not a care in theworld. They had grown up with slaves doing the brunt of the work and now werepaying the price of years of laziness. The republican leaders of society began to recognize greatly the troubles that thesouth was experiencing. These leaders began to push abolitionist ideas upon the south. Not only that, but they began to push a “northern” society into the south. Northernleaders than began to push their sights west. This was a major instigator in the CivilWar. The south did not like that the north seemingly ran the country. It was believedthat the west was the new heart, the future, of American society.4 By tur...
