Lost their jobs, homelessness increased, people went hungry
The causes of the Civil War and its cost to a young nation. More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. ... A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the moral issue of slavery. In fact, it was the economics of slavery and political control of that system that was central to the conflict.
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it starved soldiers and made the women work for money to feed their families, so it caused the country to go into a poor depression.
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Exploration of the Americans
