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The American economy was caught in transition on the eve of the Civil War. What had been an almost purely agricultural economy in 1800 was in the first stages of an industrial revolution which would result in the United States becoming one of the world's leading industrial powers by 1900. But the beginnings of the industrial revolution in the prewar years was almost exclusively limited to the regions north of the Mason-Dixon line, leaving much of the South far behind.

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The Northern States were more industrialized so they could get more ammunition and other things, while the South was collapsing because they depended heavily on cotton.

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The North issued a blockade which wiped out the South's economy.