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The American Civil War was a result of the disparity of needs of industrial north and agrarian south.

  • UPSC 2024
  • Origins of Modern Politics

By 1860, the North and South had developed sharply divergent economies — one industrializing and urban, the other agrarian and dependent on plantation slavery — and this economic disparity is often cited as a root cause of the American Civil War (1861–65).

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  • The Case for Economic Disparity as a Cause
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  • Slavery as the Deeper Organising Issue
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