In David Herbert Donald's, “Why the War Came: The Sectional Struggle over Slavery in the Territories,” we learn the majority of Northerners and Southerners had much in common, they were working class individuals, toiling away to maintain their existence and support their families. However, they were ignorant of these similarities and instead focused on the stereotypes of the minority of the divided populations. The South viewed Northerners as “enemies of the South,” whose configuration and urban development mirrored the European countries and therefore were also “pestilent”(Donald). Additionally, Northerners were believed to be unjust and cruel. The commercial make up of the North rendered an image to Southerners of a money hungry, industrial
