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Causes Of The Civil War

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The Civil War was defined as a whole. Many believed it was based on slavery but it is much more than that. Shelby Foote believes the Civil War defined us “as what we are and it opened us to being what we became good and bad things” (Shelby Foote). The two greatest armies were converging on his farm, and that became the first serious battle of the Civil War. That battle was called the Bull Run or also called Manassas. The confederates are the ones that called it that which would soon rage. More than three million Americans fought in it and 600,000 men died from it. That is two percent of the population. The American home became headquarters, churches and school houses sheltered the dying (Burns K & Burns R). The colonial of slavery began relatively
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