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Advantages And Disadvantages Of The American Civil War

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Ciera O’Brien
Professor Riffel
History 111
27 May 2016
The American Civil War
One of the main focuses in America’s history was the Civil war. The American Revolution created the United States; however, it was up to the Civil war to determine what kind of nation it will become. Will the United States be a dissolvable confederation of sovereign states or an indivisible nation with a sovereign national government? Would the United States continue to exist as the largest slaveholding country in the world, even though this nation, born of a declaration that all men were created with an equal right to liberty? Those are the two questions that were left unsolved following the revolution. The uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of national government to forbid slavery in the territories that had not yet become states is what started the civil war. To solve this issue of slavery, a man named Stephen Douglas created the popular sovereignty. This was put in place to let the people vote. He believed it was the best way to solve the slavery problem. The civil war includes advantages and disadvantages of the North and South, great effects and a resolution. The North and South had their differences and trying to agree on one agreement was a huge problem they …show more content…

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