The north and the south had different opinions. That's a given. But they also had many other things that were different. The north and the south had very different lifestyles, based on what each was doing to makes an income, and also because of the resources that were available in each. Today you will make some estimates about how resources are distributed in the United States and how that affects each side's ability to fight a war.
Civil War Overview Prezi (Bloodshed for Brothers)
From Wikipedia
At the start of the war, nearly 21 million people lived in the North compared to 9 million in the South. While the North's population was almost entirely white, the South had an enormous number of black slaves and people of color. While the latter were free, becoming a soldier was seen as the prerogative of white men only. Many Southerners were terrified at the idea of a black man with a gun. Excluding old men and boys, the white males available for Confederate service were less than two million. There was also the additional burden that the near four million black slaves had to be heavily policed as there was no trust between the owner and "owned". The North had vastly greater industrial capacity, built nearly all of the locomotives, steamships, and industrial machinery and had a much larger and more integrated railroad system. Nearly all of the munitions facilities were in the North, while critical ingredients for gunpowder were in very short supply in the South.
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