Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF THE STATES BEFORE AND AFTER THE AMERICAN CIVIL WARVasanthakumar N. BhatEven though, the American Civil War is considered as a seminal event in the history of the United States, there are not many empirical studies examining economic conditions of the Union and the Confederate states. Even though, economic conflict is not considered to be a cause of the Civil War, economic conditions after the war were vastly different in the … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 10, Issue 3 · 4 Dec 2014 · 8,153 accessesView PDFCite