Benjamin Franklin thought that it was hard for people to compromise because most men, having come from different religions, thought that they possessed of all truth, and that others beliefs would be different from their own. He believed that people found it hard to compromise because it was difficult for them to accept different types of perspectives.
North was antislavery; South was pro-slavery. North was business and trade oriented; South was agrarian. ... They wanted slavery to end in all of the United States.
