Causes_Of_Civil_War

Causes Of Civil War Causes of the Civil War The Civil War brought about rapid economic changes in the United States. The war has also been credited to bringing about the Industrial Revolution. To fully understand the Civil War you must first understand the causes for its initial outbreak. Four decades of great sectional conflict between the Northern and Southern regions of the country were the underlying cause of the Civil War. Deep political, social, and economical differences between the two regions fueled the battle. The South’s views were those of a region desiring to become an independent nation. Their succession from the Union was necessary, they believed, to achieve the type of government they desired. They chose to interpret the constitution in such a way that would allocate all excess power to the individual states. They did not support the country-wide expansion of roads, railroads, and canals. They were also against any federal subsidies to support shipping and internal improvements. These measures were seen as discriminatory to the South. They also felt betrayed by the North’s desire to develop a tariff because it would hinder their ability to trade cotton for foreign goods. The war, slavery, north, south, slaves, civil, union, states, felt, social, region, own, northern, cotton, views, southern, regions, expansion, better, together, south’s, political, outbreak, opposed, north’s, issue, internal, industrial, improvements, hold, government, fought, federal, economic