Your picture is to blurry
Factory conditions were so bad because they didn't have the technology nor the knowledge we have today to run a decent factory. the owners were concerned about profits then a worker's safety. and since workers rights weren't written at the time, the owners got to treat the workers howecer they pleased.
Majority of Southerners were opposed to Lincoln’s stance on slavery.
They saw him as a threat to their livelihood and harbinger of secession.
Landowners turned to African slaves as a more profitable and ever-renewable source of labor and the shift from indentured servants to racial slavery had begun.