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The Civil War Was The Emancipation Of Enslaved Populations

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The most significant outcome of the Civil War was the emancipation of enslaved populations. Discuss some the ways they entered free society and their treatment both good and bad. The American Civil War started in 1861 and it was a war fought within the United States of America between the Union, which was the North, and the Confederacy, which was the South. The war ended in 1865, which was only a 4-year war, however it was one of the most destructive events in American history costing approximately 620,000 soldiers. People died from accidents, starvation and a lot died of diseases in the field. Many still debate why the Civil War started, and there were many causes such as economic problems, political, and social, however as James Mcpherson wrote "The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states. When Abraham Lincoln won election in 1860 as the first Republican president on a platform pledging to keep slavery out of the territories, seven slave states in the deep South seceded and formed a new nation, the Confederate States of America. The incoming Lincoln administration and the majority of the Northern people refused to recognize the legitimacy of secession. They feared that it would discredit democracy and create a fatal precedent that would eventually fragment the no-longer United States into several small,

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