Civil War: The Most Destructive Fight In The Western World

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The Civil War began in 1861 and ended in 1865. Between the North and South, the Civil War determined what kind of nation the United States would be. The fight was mostly over the rights people should get. Things such as Slavery and Westward expansion really set it off. Slavery had divided the United States from the beginning. Having slaves mostly in the south and President Lincoln favoring the fact we shouldn 't have slaves, this really angered southerners (which resulted in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln), The American Civil War was the largest and most destructive fight in the Western world and it all started with the Confederate Army (the South) claiming Fort Sumter as their own. They open fired on the federal garrison and forced

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