THE CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR
"The tragic 'fireball in the night' imagined by Jefferson had finally rung. The Missouri Compromise had failed. Proslavery and antislavery civilians clashed in the streets and took up arms. Thousands of Northerners were willing to die for their beliefs. The Civil War had begun. The states were at war with each other." This dividing battle between the North and the South was unavoidable. The Civil War was caused by economic, political and moral problems. It all started by an alarming increase in a need for cotton, which triggered the building of a barrier between two territories in a growing New Machinery was changing the textile industry in New England and Britain. These mills needed more and more cotton, creating a new demand in the south. For this trade with Europe, after 1812, raw cotton accounted for one-third all cotton exports of the United States. By 1830, it increased to half. Cotton quickly became a big money-making cash crop for the South and North economy alike. But the demand also revived the need for slaves. The plantations had to be worked, and blacks were a cheap, efficient way to get
economically. The northerners had high moral issues while the Southerners they were not part of the original U.S. If they could form there own year, readers had bought 300,000 copies. Wherever it went, it carried it's on the South for making money, and the South depended on the slaves to pick
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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