The Civil War:The Boder States
The Civil war was the most devastating conflict on American soil. It pitted state against state, family against family, and in some cases brother against brother. Before the war was over more than 1million Americans had been killed or wounded. For the south it meant an entire way of life was gone. Nowhere was the conflict more intense than in the Border States. The Border States were slave-holding states next to the free states. They were: Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri, Virginia, and Maryland. To truly understand how these deep divisions occurred we must first explore the initial causes of the Civil War (Bailey 1). At the beginning of the 18th century you began to see differences in the north and the south, it was almost as if they were becoming two separate countries. With different geographies and climates the north and south developed different economical and social patterns. In the north the hilly terrain and colder climate tended to keep farms small, therefore northerners became seamen, shipbuilders, merchants, and factory workers. This type of development spawned the growth of large cities and urban areas. The south, on the other hand, had the plantation system which was a very large farm dealing usually with one crop.
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