AMERICAN HISTORY

American History

AMERICAN HISTORY

Introduction

The Civil War is the characterising happening in American history. No preceding American conflict came any location close to it in scale or in the casualties it caused. Its communal and political penalties were vast. It maintained the Union, directed to slavery's abolition, and spectacularly changed the connection between the states and the government.

But the conflict has furthermore developed ongoing arguments about the conflict's determinants and outcome. Among the most bitterly challenged matters are why the Southern states seceded and the span to which it was slavery that inspired secession and why the North did not let ...