The Republicanism has as central values the individual rights and liberty, also it defends a national economic strength for protection of liberty. The slavery was replaced by sharecropping. Christianity was taken to the slaves and they also created their own religious observances and developed a Biblical theology related to them. Mercantilism is a National economic policy that defends that a government should control the economy and a nation should sell more than it buys from other nations. All this resulted of the actions from the regions with their different points of views. The South with their anti-slavery forces wanted liberty and respect for the human being.