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Was southern secession a huge surprise for the North?

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As modernization began to take hold in the United States, differences between the two major sections grew more pronounced: a plantation cotton culture worked by slave labor became concentrated in the South and industrial development featuring free labor in the North. read more

Various Fire Eaters, (Pro States Rights types.), like Edmund Ruffin, in the South, had been beating the drum for secession for a good 40 years. There was a union newspaper in Charleston where the editor once said, before secession, that South Carolina was too small to be a country, and too large to be an insane asylum. read more

After hostilities began at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861, the border states of Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina joined the new government, which then moved its capital to Richmond, Virginia. read more

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