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Article: Civil War, Economic Impact of (Issue)
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CIVIL WAR, ECONOMIC IMPACT OF
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The economic consequences of the American Civil War (1861
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1865) are largely due to Northern control of the federal government during and for several decades after the War. During the sectional debates over the tariff and the expansion of slavery that characterized the thirty years before the War, the North had been forced to forgo or compromise several of its national economic policy objectives because of Southern opposition and the strong position the Southern states held in the Senate. As soon as the Southern states seceded and the legislators resigned their seats in Congress, the legislators from the North and West began enacting this ...