Some causes were economy, The southern economy depended on Cotton & Slave Labor
Also, State rights Vs Federal Rights ; The South wanted to be able to Nullify Federal acts.
Slavery; Non slave states Vs Slave states & Abolishing Slavery in the North.
And Last President Lincolns Election; Won the north becoming souths opponent having the country divided.
Consequences were
-physical damage to southern cities as well as plantations
- Economically South Had difficult time recovering from war & some southern states remained at the bottom economically. Had Few Factories unlike the North
- and Socially, Slaves were free but attempts to offer Blacks political and economic benefits were threatened by the rise of the Klu Klux Klan, changing political Climate.