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JordanThe North's economy before the Civil War was very different from the South, which came as an advantage during the Civil War. The North was less agricultural and progressing industrially, whilst the South was still high on agriculture. The North was much more populous and advanced...
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What kind of US expansion to the far East took place in the period before the Civil War?
Prior to the Civil War, the U.S. expansion to the Far East was done through trade and diplomacy. There was a treaty, for example, that opened trade with Japan.
What impact would the civil war have on the south's foreign trade?
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Who was the US trading with during the civil war?
The slave trade? The Europeans.
Did cotton trade between north and south start the civil war?
not really
At the start of the US Civil War did the North or the South have dominance in foreign trade?
At the start of the American Civil War, it was the North that had "dominance" (or, a strong advantage) in foreign trade. While the South's cotton was a primary export crop for the United States before the war, it was Northern merchants who handled the vast majority of the shipping between markets, just as the ships themselves were typically constructed by Northern ship-builders.
