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Q: Was the Civil War fought over the issue of slavery?
The South, which was known as the Confederate States of America, seceded from the North, which was also known as the Union, for many different reasons. The reason they wanted to succeed was because there was four decades of great sectional conflict between the two. Between the North and South there were deep economic, social, and p ....
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.... 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 Souths secession was the Slavery issue. This was the issue that overshadowed all others. At this time the labor force in the South had about 4 million slaves. These sla ....
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