There's no perfect answer to this question (even the question acknowledges this problem). In my opinion, the U.S. was put on a path to Civil War the very moment the U.S. Constitution was signed. The Constitution brought a bunch of colonies into a union together, even though some of those colonies relied heavily on slavery and believed that slavery was morally defensible, while others did not rely on slavery and believed that slavery was a terrible thing. It was only a matter of time before the debate over slavery turned into a violent clash over slavery.
The Kingdom of Israel was split into two, namely the Kingdom of Israel also known as the Northern Kingdom which covers the cities of <span>Shechem and Samaria, and the Kingdom of Judah also known as the Southern Kingdom which includes Jerusalem. The main reason was that when King Solomon died, his son Rehoboam took his father's throne. However, the tribes in the northern part of Israel refused to submit themselves to Rehoboam and created another kingdom in the north. </span>