The Causes of the Civil War The South, which was known as the Confederate States of America, tried to secede from the North, which was also known as the Union, for many different reasons. One reason they wanted to secede was because there were four decades of great conflict between the two. Between the North and South there were deep economic, social, and political differences. The South wanted to become an independent nation. The main …showed first 75 words of 2667 total…

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