The Civil war is the most destructive and deadliest of all of America’s wars and it was the only war that was fought on the United States soil. There are many reasons why the North and South fought in the Civil War a few being that the North was taxing the South too much, slavery and the Abolition Act. I believe that the North unfairly taxing the South was the biggest reason that started the Civil War in 1861. The Southerners felt the government was passing laws that treated them unfair like import taxes on items. The North was completely different then the South, the North had factories and the South had cotton plantations, the South depended on slaves to work the fields and then sold their crops to cotton mills in England and in return ships brought back cheap manufactured goods. The Northern factories were producing the same goods that the South was receiving from England and so the Northern politicians started to pass heavy taxes on imported goods from Europe just so the South would have to buy goods from them. …show more content…
The Civil War is also—with the exception of the Vietnam War—America's most misunderstood war; it has been remembered as a struggle to preserve the Union and a (northern) crusade to emancipate slaves and to end the institution of slavery forever. The truth is that the road to war—and thus the set of issues that underscored the hostilities—was never that