There were many different Causes of the Civil War between the Union of the North and the Confederacy of the South. The two major causes of the Civil War were slavery and States Rights. The economy in the south was based on the cash crop plantation system which depended on the institution of slavery whereas the economy in the north was based on manufacturing and industry and was not reliant on slaves. The south were concerned about the dominance of the northern states following the election of Abraham Lincoln and the Republican party and the possible infringement of states rights.
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The modern industrial economies of the three powers allowed for scientific and technological advances that led to increasingly powerful and more lethal systems of weapons (more potent cannons, new warships, the first war airplanes, devastating gun machines and poisonus gas, for example). It also was the basis for mobilizing and keeping large armies in 1914-1918. WWI produced the horrendous figure of 40 million casualties, half of them dead, something never seen before in history.
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