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The North and the South lived two totally different ways of life, leading to an inevitable conflict between these two sections. Sectionalism in the United States was started and continued because of the different views of living according to the North and the Sou ....

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.... felt that the South was destroying the Union by trading the cotton for goods with the Europeans and not enough with the North. But there was another side to this, the South said that they would trade with the North if they built more factories to process the cotton. The North bitterly opposed this idea. They felt that it was too risky to build more factories and lose a profit. The North would said that if they, the South, slowed down their cotton crop then there would be enough factories to process the cotton. The South disagreed of course, leading to a never-ending quarrel between the two sections. The two sections also had different economic leade ....