In addition to people, the transcontinental railroad shipped things like mail, supplies, and trade goods could now be shipped across the country in just a few days. The railroad was built between 1863 and 1869.
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Not so good in this stuff but I'm sure it would be high tariffs or taxes on the opposing nations goods and low taxes on goods made in the same nation..?
In the South cotton was "King" and much of that cotton was demanded by the British to fuel their industrial revolution. Britain became a logical trading partner. Furthermore the South resented buying manufactured goods from the North whom they felt was prospering on their labor. The South also deemed the tariffs raised on goods from out of the country only benefited the manufacturing of the North. In addition they looked upon the North as a kind of an enemy since the nullification process and the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions earlier in the century.
There were all kind of people in the war.
What kind of war tactics did who use?
The southerners bought more foreign goods than the northerners did. So this kind of led to sectionalism because the northerners thought differently and the southerners were angry because it this tariff affected a lot of people.