Will give brainliest to correct answers 1.what were the main differences between the north and south prior to the civil war? 2.what were the economic causes of the civil war? 3.what were the political causes of the civil war? 4.what were the social causes that contributed to the civil war? 5.what were the economic consequences of the civil war? 6.what were the political consequences of the civil war? 7.what were the economic consequences of the civil war?

1. The major difference between the North and the South -- and the one most responsible for the Civil War -- was the institution of slavery. In the North, slavery was almost universally prohibited by the 1800s, while the institution was a cornerstone of Southern society.

2. Southerners made huge profits from cotton and slaves and fought a war to maintain them. Northerners did not need slaves for their economy and fought a war to free them. ... The agricultural economy was certainly one cause of the Civil War, but not the only one. Wars are never simple and neither are their causes.

3. the slow collapse of the Whig Party, the founding of the Republican Party, and, most important, the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln

4.Uncle Tom's Cabin or Life Among the Lowly was written in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Stowe was an abolitionist who wrote this book to show the evils of slavery. This book, which was a best seller at the time, had a huge impact on the way that northerners viewed slavery. It helped further the cause of abolition

5.The first and most important point is that the Civil War was expensive. In 1860 the U.S. national debt was $65 million.

6.The Civil war had profound effects on the the United States and the Confederacy in economic, political, and social. The war had different effects depending on the region which can be divided by effect on the south, north, and west.