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Cambridge AS and A Level history notes 9489 Causes of the Civil war

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The Causes
of the Civil
War

, politics
THEMES economics




ECONOMICS
Northern economics

can be described as INDUSTRIAL

factories spring up in Northern cities providing a North of jobs § economic growth
manufacturing making products : not
growing crops





Free labour irk { get paid for that
you chose where to hi work
• -

.




Manufacturing free labour
city growth
• + =





free labour opportunities immigrants =




free labour multitude of immigrants

22000 miles of railroad lines built in North in 1861 transport goods





Southern economics

AGRICULTURAL : farming was a
way of life
US factories were in the South
By only 8% of all

1060 ,


1- ANTAT IONS

↳ owners : planters


planters -

wealthiest Southerners

southern these planters
economy dependent on







economy was slave labour dependant

32% Southern families owned slaves by 1 60

*
slaves -
status symbol

sign of one's wealth

slave labour backbone of Southern
economy
• =

,Timers
isn't what's
Typically having differing economies
going to be
causing a problem but trade was the issue

between Northern and Southern economies specifically in
regards to Tarrifs



Tarr ifs : taxes imported goods

on





The North wanted protective tarrifs
-


protective tarrifs designed to specifically benefit domestic goods over foreign imports
Theoretically protective Tarrits make foreign goods more expensive compared to
-


,


domestic
goods

making consumers more likely to buy American-made products . : this would
help American
manufacturers mane
money by decreasing foreign competition
This would be
why Northern Manu
factoring cities really supported tarrifs





Protective tarr ifs also resulted in tarrifs being applied to that nation's
goods as well





Britain responds tarr if
If USA puts protective tarr if on British
goods by putting a American

a ,
on



goods can
severely hurt trade between nations




The South wanted free trade


Free trade : no tarrifs to promote international trade

in Great Britain
majority of their cotton was sold to overseas markets
especially
-







Especially to British town of Lancashire (Remember this for Civil War)

trade in
Cotton was important to American
general






by 1850 ,
more than half of all US exports were Southern cotton

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