The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Although the question does not have any further references or attachments, we can say that the sectional conflict was a combination of an irrepressible conflict with the work of bungling politicians, fanatics, and agitators.
Before the Civil War, there were many incidents, events, and decisions that create more separation in the views of the northerners and southerners. In the North, the idea of abolitionism was supported by most states, while in the South, slavery was an important part of the economy. Indeed, southern states depended on slaves to produce the crops in large plantations. These crops had to be exported to Europe.
The Missouri Compromise or the Kansas-Nebraska Act was the product of different points of view from legislators trying to fix things until the problems too many that made seven states seceded from the Union, and later, the beginning of the Civil War.
It was definitely Sherman's victory in Atlanta.
- Germany moved into the Balkan states.
- The animosity between Serbia and Austria.
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Recession
This is a period of economic slow down due to economic decline. during a great recession, the masses faces hardship as gdp, income, and macro economic indicators falls miserably.
Lincoln Steffens and Claude Wetmore wrote on one of the greatest urban scandals of the post-Civil War: corruption.
The article Tweed Days in St. Louis, printed in McClure's magazine on a 1902 issue, was written by Steffens and Wetmore along with other writers and was called the first muckraking article.
In it, Major Ziegenhein and the city council were denounced for corruption, claiming they were stealing the public budget and getting bribes to approve regulations.
