The American Civil War

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This paper discusses the American civil war and a variety of issues such as political tension, nativism, geography, demography, immigration, legal concerns, inscription and economy. These issues, together with the issue of slavery, quickly divided the country into two.

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"The American Civil War posited the Confederate States of America against the northern states tied together as the Union, throwing all of the border states into new sociopolitical angst. While the war began officially in 1861, after the eleven southern states' pronouncement of secession the previous year, the real problems had already taken control of the country years earlier. Before the ignition of bloody battle, the American nation was already divided geographically, highlighting the Northeast, Upper South, and Deep South, in the newly posited "slave states" and "free states." While moral opposition to slavery had long existed, the independence of the states and the economic necessity of cheap labor further distinguished the already divergent economies and societies between the states that characterized the mid-nineteenth century. Sectionalism boomed, and the only legal basis for discussion between the regionalized northern Union and southern Confederacy was the Constitution. "

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