The American conflict over slavery was a part of global events. As other countries for example, the European nations advanced in technology, slavery became an old-fashioned way of working. The North was already advanced in their industrial systems while the south was still using man instead of machines to work. Slavery in America provided majority of the economy. The south was known as “Cotton Kingdom” because they were producing 75% of the world’s cotton. Abolishing slavery would lead to a decline in the economy. Southerners used this as an excuse to keep slavery in the United States but abolishing slavery grew popular and it was not just in the United States. During the Civil War the Union tried to win the support of anti-slavery countries
