The Civil War

The Civil War was the bloodiest war in American history. It lasted from 1861- 1865. The war divided so many people living in the United States. The war was between the Northern people which had a more up to date way of living and wanted to end slavery and an agricultural way of life. The South wanted to keep slavery and not change their way of life. The war started on April 12, 1861 when Southern troop fired …

…sanctioned privacy. Which was the only way they could survive. The North was more industrialized then the South and counted on manufacturing, banking, and other financial enterprises for alot of it's income was also an important agricultural region with the exception of cotton, the North out- produced the South in every type of agriculture. Union supplies were far more advanced than those of the Union's ability to export agricultural products added cash to the Union.