Cause of the Civil War Many of the documented conflicts throughout history have a common root issue: resources. Whether these resources take the form of money, land, crops, labor, or even power, it is still a problem of economy. Power comes from money, money is used to obtain labor, labor works the land, and the land provides crops. Methods of obtaining resources vary depending on what form the economy is molded into, and utilization of those resources cements that mold. Conflict arises when there is dispute over either the obtaining or use of resources. Slavery was only part of what caused the Civil War. Slavery was only a symptom of a much larger economic issue, though prominent enough to be directly blamed. The main cause of the Civil War was the vast economic difference between the North …show more content…
These crops were not only used by the region itself, but sent to the North to be turned into goods, and exported worldwide. Slaves had been used since the colonization of the South, meant to fill the low labor force that was faced initially. Slavery was cheaper than wage labor, so it was a valuable asset to the economy. Money could instead be spent on maintaining and acquiring land, as well as amassing social and political power. While the North abolished slavery, the South wanted to maintain a system that, for them, worked rather well. The North, however, quickly became an industrial region. The land wasn’t properly suitable for plantations like the south was, and in many areas the climate was too temperamental to rely on seasons for planting and harvesting. Despite its history of slavery, after the Revolution many states chose to abolish slavery, and those states then relied on wage labor. Without the reliance on slavery, immigrants filled the labor gap. Factories popped up in the north, as well as textile mills, producing goods for the country as well as for