The largest sectional difference that led to a growing divide between the North and the South was the issue of slavery. The North had become industrialized. They created many factories and had a large shipping and fishing industries in which they didn’t need the use of slaves as much as the South. The winters were long and cold, so, there weren’t many months for farming as in the South and there was not a lot of flat land. The North had a lot of mountains and rocky soil that wouldn’t help with the farming, either. The South’s economy, on the other hand, relied heavily on the use of slaves. The climate and the soil of the South were good for growing warm weather crops such as tobacco and cotton. The South had massive plantations and farms everywhere and they relied on the use of slaves to farm this land. In turn, the issue of slavery caused a lot of turmoil between the North and the South. The North, for the most part, was against slavery in the South and didn’t want to see it expand to the Western states and territories. The North’s leaders saw economic and political advantages to leaving that area open to settlement by farmers and the working class. The North viewed slavery as a moral issue; degrading and cruel. The South, on the other hand, wanted to protect its influence in the federal government, proposing that a balance should be between free and slave states as the Union expanded. They saw slavery as a necessary “must’ and a way of life. Both, the North and the South were trying to extend their economic and political boundaries into the West. The Fugitive Slave Act under the Compromise of 1850, stated; in future any federal marshal who did not arrest an alleged runaway slave could be fined $1,000. People suspected of being a runaway slave could be arrested without warrant and turned over to a claimant on nothing more than his