I Have a Few Questions

[My Name Is Kate]

Why was slavery largely confined to the South? Would slavery likely have died out if not for the invention of the cotton gin?

Why didn't Northerners make use of slavery in the factories? Or did they?

Was the increasing tension between the North and the South caused by what appeared on the surface to be the slavery issue, but may actually have been caused by the North's growing economic wealth compared to the South, and the North's closer connections with the Federal government, and greater reliance on and influence with the Federal government (for example, imposing tariffs/taxes on the South)?

Was it mainly geographical differences and availability of natural resources that caused the development of industry in the North, and the predominance of agriculture in the South, or was it also due to different ideologies in the North and South, and if so, how did that develop?