Since the beginning of the 19th century, the United States started to experience the effects of the Industrial Revolution. Industrialization Factory buildings such as this would have been a common sight in Northern cities by the middle of the 19th century. As is most things in history, it is a little bit of both. Some will place the blame on the institution of slavery, some blame, industrialization, while others point towards westward expansion. The devastation it would leave in its wake would take decades, if not centuries, to recover.Ĭountless historians still ferociously debate over the true motivations and causes for what led to the Civil War. For 4 years, the nation tore itself from limb to limb, and when the dust finally settled in 1865, more than 640,000 Americans were dead. The American Civil War remains the most destructive conflict in the history of the United States. What Really Started The American Civil War
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