Civil War Turning Point

Many people have viewed the American Civil War a major turning point in history for the United States. As a result of the war, the industrial revolution had become the new economy assuming the primary role of finance profit. The predominance of the industrial development was rapidly spreading across the continent. The South primarily remained an agricultural region that depended on slave labor, while on the other hand, the “Industrial Development”, interests in the North grew further from those of Americans in the South.
Although the Civil War itself was caused by a number of different factors, the divergent paths taken in the economic development of North and South contributed to the animosity between the regions, the development of the
Confederacy and, ultimately, the victory of the Union. An import part of social and economic change is innovations. As the breeding ground for modern warfare, the Civil War has long been known for its many “first” that were considered revolutionary. It has been credited with factories producing weapons, railroads, and manpower. ”the country possessed some 128,300 industrial establishments. Of these, 110,274 were located in states that remained in the Union. The most heavily industrialized states, New York and Pennsylvania, each had more industry than all the seceding states combined”. such as rifles, grenade and machine gun, and the