Causes Of The Civil War

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and canals. The South, on the
other hand, did not want these projects to be done at all. Also the North wanted
to develop a tariff. With a high tariff, it protected the Northern manufacturer.
It was bad for the South because a high tariff would not let the south trade
its cotton for foreign goods.
The North also wanted a good banking and currency
system and federal subsidies for shipping and internal improvements. The South
felt these were discriminatory and that they favored Northern commercial interests.


Now the main reason for the South’s secession was the Slavery issue. Basically
the South wanted and needed it and the North did not want it at all. The South
was going to do anything they could to keep it. This was the issue that overshadowed
all others. At this time the labor force in the South had about 4 million
slaves. These slaves were very valuable to the slaveholding planter class.
They were a huge investment to Southerners and if taken away, could mean ...

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for political
equality and economic and social advances. The Northerners goals were free
public education, better salaries and working conditions for workers, rights
for women, and better treatment for criminals. The South felt these views
were not important. All of t
hese views eventually led to an attack on the
slavery system in the South, and showed opposition to its spread into whatever
new territories that were acquired. Northerners said that slavery revoked
the human right of being a free person. Now with all these views the North
set out on its quest for the complete abolition of slavery.

When new territories
became available in the West the South wanted to expand and use ...

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