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Civil War Era

Historians have yet the answer the question of why, exactly, the Civil War started. In less than 80 years, 31,400,000 (approx.) came to distant land for a chance at a new life. All of them brought with them their own beliefs, religions, and views on life. This created a colossal clash of cultures. For this very reason, people of similar beliefs settled in the same area. The one issue that has caused the United States to erupt in civil war, slavery, had its advocates in the South and its adversaries in the North. Slavery is the only ostensible cause for the Civil War.
Whether or not slavery is the cause, the majority of learned Americans, including myself, will commonly agree that, in retrospect, going to war posed the most advantages over any other avenue. Early action of the North proved as a disciplinary action. Allowing the South to secede would have created two different nations, neither with the intent of helping each other, with half of every (e.g. military......

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