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Message: [QUOTE="WaHoos4Me, post: 1712174, member: 4582"] The south disliked the north, imo, because of the numerous tariffs/taxes placed on them to, "help/primarily pay for", supplement the northern manufacturing and building of big industry. The south was the source of food for the entire nation at that time, using large plantations to produce not only for the families in the south, but also to feed those in the north and to bring trade from other countries to the fledgling United States. Southerners used many hands on the farms to produce crops, tend and mend, fight off the native American Indians. The south was poor, not stupid, as many people now seem to think. Manufacturing and industry was a fast growing machine, and outside of a few locations, very limited in the south. Trade limits/taxes imposed higher prices on the goods used to sew, plant/produce, mend & repair rather than buy new, etc etc... Those increases placed an already stifled family under even more demanding, damning hardship. Many people & families who had fought hard to finally escape the burdens and toils of their indenturedness, lost their homes/farms to the banks and became indentured once again. Many people today feel the cause of the Civil War was the north "being anti-slavery" and the south being "pro-slavery"... The true cause of the War was the undue hardships placed on the American farmer by the BANKS and then the regulatory tariffs which drove prices beyond the abilities of the southern people to pay for their needed goods and seemed to benefit the north only in the creation of more and more manufacturing plants; thereby taking not only the money from the farmer but also the ability for the farmer to compete and earn a living wage. Manufacturing made for faster production and faster production replaced the need for hand made goods. The hatred grew even more after the Civil War when the south was left burned, broken, forgotten and then allowed to be pillaged by the northern movement through "carpetbagging", or the influx of Northern military generals and politicians who had ample money and bank/government support into the south and the farms that were destroyed from the war. The war also gave the northern manufacturers a huge surge in the growth of the nation by allowing them to control the rebuild of the nation. [/QUOTE]

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