Origins of the American Civil War
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Origins of the American Civil War
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The origins of the American Civil War has its roots in the desire of the Southern states to preserve the institution of slavery. While historians in the 21st century overwhelmingly agree on this centrality of slavery in the conflict, they disagree sharply on which aspects of it were most important, and on the North's reasons for refusing to allow the Southern states to secede. Proponents of the pseudo-historical Lost Cause ideology have denied that slavery was the principal cause of the secessio
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Aspect of history
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_the_American_Civil_War
date created:
2003-12-20T09:12:00Z
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2024-09-12T08:50:43Z
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