I Have a Few Questions

[My Name Is Kate]

The South depending on slavery for their economic well-being, it's no wonder they were reluctant to give it up without a fight. Anyone else probably would have been the same way. Of course it could be argued that no one should have depended on slavery in the first place, but that's hindsight.

Now I'm wondering why the drafters of the Constitution didn't just ignore the slavery issue altogether (since I suppose it would be unrealistic to have expected them to denounce slavery from the start). Why didn't they leave out Article 4, Section 2, and let each state decide what to do with runaway slaves?

Why were the social, religious, and economic values different in the North and the South ever since colonial times? It must have been more than that one section was more industrial and one was more agrarian. Did most of the people in the North come from a particular part of Europe, and vice versa?