Causes of the Civil War - Political or Social?

From the establishment of America, conflicting social and political views have separated the north and south into two very different cultures. While most southern states became dependent on slavery, northern states industrialized and modernized. They also formed very different opinions on westward expansion and slavery. As American began to expand it's boarders, so did animosity between the two regions. The political problems dealing with the United States fulfillment of Manifest Destiny and expansion into western territories exposed many peoples' moral obligation to the institution of slavery.
Though slavery had been an important component of American agriculture for almost 200 years, in the mid eighteen-hundreds the argument over the unethical principles of the enslavement of man exploded into an ideological crusade between free and slave-owning states.…