ning the westrepublican and anti-slavery, the northern ideology would reign supreme and thesouthern ideology would fall by the wayside. Ethnocentrically than became a majorfactor in the argument of the south, but with republicans with northern ideas, therebattle was futile. The south could not find a way to concretely voice their opinions. The argue forslavery was a knock on the northern ideas of free trade, “every man for himself.”5 Theargument was that it lauded greed and fights between the classes. It created competitionin society. It was what was believed to be the beginnings of a materialistic society inAmerica. This was not welcomed by the southerners. By the beginning of the 1860’s anorth south division had been created. A division created on ideologies of free trade,slavery and social classes. A civil war was on the horizon....