To what extent does civil war represent a clash of cultures?

To the extent that the concepts, values and beliefs between southerners and northerners intensified the conflict between them.

Explanation:

As you may already know, the American civil war had political and commercial divergences as main reasons, however, cultural values and all the elements related to this intensified the conflict between northerners and southerners, who, for cultural reasons, had different beliefs, values and concepts and built a great intolerance with these elements between them.

b) the confederacy had to pay all union war expenses.