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What Were The Causes Of The Civil War

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What is the Civil War? It is known as one of the central events of the history of America. People identify it as the war between the Union and the Confederate states. What were the causes? Who were the faces of the civil war? The Civil War took place between the years 1861 and 1865, it started at Fort Sumter and it ended at the Appomattox Court House. It all began because of one cause, the slaves. Before talking about the cause I might as well explain who were fighting because of it. The Union, it consisted of twenty free slave states and five slave states, because its industrialization no slaves were needed. The Confederacy, were opposing The Union because their economy was based on their plantations and to work on them they used slaves.

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