What were the Western States interested in before Civil War

While the South utilized slavery to sustain its culture and grow cotton on plantations, the North prospered during the Industrial Revolution. ... Slavery became even more divisive when it threatened to expand westward because non-slaveholding white settlers did not want to compete with slaveholders in the new territories.

Explanation:

answer; /// slavery should be outlawed in the new country, was part of the initial draft of the declaration of independence, but not part of the final