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After the cotton-gin was invented, the South was able to export large quantities of the short-staple cotton that could make cheap garments and blankets.

It greatly enriched the South, but it remained their only major industry.

When the North started to industrialise, the Northern-dominated Congress raised taxes on imports to protect its manufacturing base.

It was the South that needed imports, so this was seen as a tax on the South.

When new territories in the West came up for admission to the USA, the North wanted to maintain its dominance in Congress, so it opposed the admission of new slave-states.

The South, naturally, wanted to keep some sort of balance of slave-states against free soil.

That was the cause of the Civil War.

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