Why was economics not a cause of the Civil War?

Answer 1

Economics was a central cause of the Civil War -- industrial society meets agrarian society, hijinks ensue...

Answer 2

It was absolutely a cause of the civil war. The North wanted big tariffs to protect their manufacturing industries while the South wanted free trade with Europe to export their cotton. Economics was also the primary motivation for slavery. The war wasn't started over abolitionism or other moralist causes, the dispute was economic and political. The full scale abolition of slavery only became a goal later in the war.

Answer 3

One of the most respected authorities on the subject,Bruce Catton,wrote there would have been NO civil war except for the issue of slavery.All other issues and differences between the North and South were subsidiary and would not have led to war.Who has been filling your young,naive heads with this economic nonsense?That war was caused by slavery.

Answer 4

Economics WAS one of the causes of the civil war. The north and the south had different economic views which made them radically different. Northerners wanted to increase tariffs to encourage consumers to purchase domestic goods. The south was exporting cotton to Europe in exchange for manufactured goods. This was just one of the things that led to greater sectionalism.

Answer 5

Economics had a lot to do with the "Civil War". The "Union's" refusal to allow the south the right to free enterprise led to secession which led to Lincoln's declaration of war. The whole "free the slaves" crap line was used to justify to the world Lincoln's attack on his own countrymen and gave the demoralized troops a noble reason to kill their relatives.

Answer 6

it was in an indirect way. ecomics and policies led you the south become much more of a section. The south thought the north was passing legislatior that was only good for the industrial north. So as a section they would fight against it because they didn't want the north to get more powerful. Also they were many crisis involing slavery which was the basis of the south's Plantion system of economy.

Answer 7

Of course it was. Read the Meeting Street Declaration. The Confederacy's version of the original Declaration of Independence. If your teacher is telling you there were no major economic issues involved, try to get your folks involved in having that teacher placed on the unemployment line!