When American citizens look at their country, they see unity, freedom, and freedom. To achieve what is seen through the eyes of American citizens, countless struggles and many wars have been fought over political and social issues, including the Civil War. In the 1800s, tensions between the North, a manufacturing region, and the South, an agrarian region, grew stronger. In the years leading up to the 1860s, many compromises were worked out to preserve the Union. In 1860, the North and the South reached a crossroads; both sides were unable to further compromise on the idea of ​​slavery. Northern abolitionists, who were against slavery, gained extensive political power that threatened the economic livelihood of the South, which needed its slaves to work on cash crop plantations. On the other hand, Southerners were gradually moving toward secession in order to preserve slavery and the prosperity that this system of exploitation provided. The Civil War would not have occurred without the important social and political causes that sparked the conflict between the North and the South. Social causes, including the Dred Scott decision and the Fugitive Slave Act, played a major role in creating the Civil War. The Dred Scott decision was a United States Supreme Court case concerning the freedom of Dred Scott, a slave. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, a Supreme Court justice, said that "...the framers of the Constitution considered all Negroes to be of an inferior order and totally unfit for association in political relations, and so inferior that they no rights which white men were bound to respect” (Taney The Dred Scott Decision 1854). The ruling indicated that African American slaves were not U.S. citizens. The decision also ended the Union and brought issues of slavery to the political forefront of America. Political and social issues caused tensions between the North and South to escalate, eventually leading to civil war. The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Dred Scott decision were events that sparked conflict between free states and slave states. In the search for a fair future, compromises were drafted and declared unconstitutional due to the questioning of slavery in the United States of America. New laws were implemented, such as the Fugitive Slave Act, but caused more unrest and conflict in the Union. America could not unite as a country since it was socially and politically divided. Through the Civil War, Americans learned to unite and work together for the common good of the country and realized the importance of equality among citizens of the United States..