Business and Economics and the Civil War
Purpose of the Interdisciplinary Project
Many historians consider the disparity between the Northern
industrial economy and the Southern
slave-based agricultual economy to be the main cause of the American Civil War.
Why were the
two regions engaged in such different modes of production? What legislation
passed in the early to
mid1800s targeted these differences?
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