Why was it difficult for the federal government to make laws to satisfy both the
North and the South?

It was difficult because the North and the South both had different visions on how the U.S. should be run , and they also had different views on the laws Congress made.

Explanation:

One similarity between the two systems is that they both tend to look at individual human beings primarily as economic units. For Marx, as with all Communists, each individual was defined by the forces of production and the role they played within the economic system.