The Civil War was the culmination of four decades of intense sectional conflict of social and political difference between the North and the South. Slavery played a big part in the cause of the civil war, north not believing in slavery and the south slavery was praised. Slaves was the largest single investment in the south, the labor in the south including nearly four million enslaved blacks. 'The Civil War stands not only as a …showed first 75 words of 2186 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2186 total…without stint were offered to the government by the rich . Regiments marching through the streets of towns were greeted everywhere by the shouts of the people , who sometimes wept as they cheered them.         The southern people were equally enthusiastic and unanimous- equally resolved and hopeful. The young men of the south eagerly took up arms, and poured like a torrent into Virginia . The great civil war had burst upon the country in all its fury.