The American Civil War was a series of transactions, or exchanges, between the North and the South. These transactions involved over 1 million Americans who put their lives at risk for the liberation of the country's slaves. These transactions were influenced by three fundamental concepts: perspectives, values, and related assessments of costs and benefits. In the midst of this tumultuous time in American history, these concepts shaped not only the people themselves, but the social, political, and economic transactions of the Civil War. The perspectives of the Union and the Confederacy have always been in conflict with each other because slavery was an anomaly in the North and prominent in the South. The North's perspective was that slavery was unnecessary and posed a threat to the American dream. On the other hand, the Southern perspective was that slavery was an absolute necessity that would strengthen the American economy. These perspectives were influenced by the values ​​of the North and the South. Northerners valued a unified, slave-free America based on an industrial, soilless economy, while Southerners valued the preservation of the antebellum period through secession. Although both sides had conflicting perspectives and values, they did not engage in civil litigation until they assessed the relative costs and benefits of violence. It is important to understand the differences in perspectives, values, and relative cost-benefit analyzes that shaped social, political, and economic transactions during the Civil War because this era created a nation that values ​​freedom. A perspective is a specific way of seeing things based on your beliefs, character, and associations. When discussing a topic or thing... the center of the card... is the expansion of slavery. The Free-Soil Party was a Northern abolitionist group that supported the Wilmot Proviso and adopted its terms in the 1848 election. In contrast, the South valued the “antebellum period,” a time of white supremacy. White supremacy, which began before the Civil War and would eventually lead to America's infamous white supremacist group, the Ku Klux Klan, made whites superior to foreign races other than their own. This white supremacy movement would only place blacks and other incoming races into racial judgment and racial inequality, furthermore subject to slavery. This would ultimately be one of the strongest reasons for secession from the Free Northern States. Although the Union and the Confederacy had different values ​​and perspectives, there were many relative social, political, and economic costs and benefits of the Civil War.