The Causes of the Civil War. It is based on the book called The Coming of the Civil war by Michael Perman. It discusses the arguments in the book as to why the war took place.
Title: The Causes of the Civil War. It is based on the book called The Coming of the Civil war by Michael Perman. It discusses the arguments in the book as to why the war took place.
Category: /History/North American History
Details: Words: 2110 | Pages: 8 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Causes of the Civil War. It is based on the book called The Coming of the Civil war by Michael Perman. It discusses the arguments in the book as to why the war took place.
Category: /History/North American History
Details: Words: 2110 | Pages: 8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Causes of the Civil War
During the 1850s, the United States was one country, but was divided into two separate societies: the North and the South. These were the two main parts of the country. Their ideals and way of life were so different from each other that they went to war to defend them. The South was an aristocratic society. It mainly consisted of plantations full of cotton and tobacco with many slaves working …showed first 75 words of 2110 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2110 total…without slaves in the South their economic interests would be different. McPherson stated that the differences in economics and culture between the two were the cause of the war. Without the slaveholders, the culture in the South would not have been so unique and they would have not felt like their culture was under attack. Basically without the slaves in the South, there would not have been such a tragic ending in the United States.