Ruined it.
The blockade stopped them from exporting their cotton. Nearly all the battles were on Southern soil, causing endless damage. Later, Sheridan and Sherman went out of their way to wreck farms and railroads, aiming to destroy the Southern economy.
Eventually the Confederate dollar became a joke-currency.
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The North, with its factories and large cities, had less use for slave labor. Economic differences between the North and South, and the South's insistence on maintaining slavery, eventually led to war.~Emily
World War I was originally called "The Great War" (not the Civil War)
No English King was executed after the English Civil War. The execution of King Charles I occurred during the Civil War.
There were 500,000 casualties as a result of the Angola Civil War. The civil war in Angola lasted from 1975 until 2002.