Knowledge Review

Knowledge Review

1. Was the Civil war inevitable, and what were the relative advantages of the North and the South?

In the years before the Civil War, the financial concerns of Americans in the North and Northwest increased progressively farther from those of Americans in the South and Southwest. Although the Civil War itself was initiated by several distinct components, the divergent routes taken in the financial development of North and South assisted to the animosity between the districts, the development of the Confederacy and, finally, the triumph of the Union. While manufacturers were constructed all over the North and ...