A devaluation of Bernese money caused Causation a tax revolt Change_of_leadership that spread Dispersal from the Entlebuch valley in the Canton of Lucerne to the Emmental valley in the Canton of Bern and then to the cantons of Solothurn and Basel and also to the Aargau .

The population of the countryside demanded Request fiscal relief Cure from their ruling Legal_rulings authorities , the city councils of these cantons ' capitals .

After initial compromises mediated by other cantons had failed , the peasants united Cause_to_amalgamate under the treaty of Huttwil , forming Coming_to_be the `` League of Huttwil '' .

The Sonderbund War Hostile_encounter ( ) of November 1847 was a civil war in Switzerland , then still a relatively loose confederacy of cantons ( states ) .

It ensued Coming_to_be after seven Catholic cantons formed Coming_to_be the ( `` separate alliance '' ) in 1845 to protect their interests against a centralization of power .

The Sonderbund consisted of the cantons of Lucerne , Fribourg , Valais , Uri , Schwyz , Unterwalden and Zug , all predominantly Catholic and governed Control by Conservative administrations .

The cantons of Ticino and Solothurn , also predominantly Catholic but governed Control by liberal administrations , did not join Becoming_a_member the alliance .