Civil War

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This paper discusses the Civil War between the North and the South in America. It discusses the factors contributing to the war, particularly focusing on the different perspectives of the northern and the southern states. It discusses the effects of the rights of the states to forge their own local laws, the industrial revolution, the westward expansion and the abolitionist movement and describes how each of these factors contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War.

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"The American Civil War reflected controversial political issues plaguing the United States since the original Articles of the Confederation. "A myriad of conflicting pressures, principles, and prejudices, fueled by sectional differences and pride, and set into motion by a most unlikely set of political events," led to the outbreak of war in 1861 ("The Causes). Slavery was one of the ideological issues at the heart of the controversy, but from the southern perspective, slavery was only one aspect a federalist policy viewed as being aggressive and neglectful of southern interests. Moreover, the southern states championed libertarianism and states' rights as being more reflective of American ideals than the policies put forth by the apologists of a strong central government. The Industrial Revolution also exacerbated the preexisting regional differences that led to the Civil War, differences that focused on states' rights, political ideology, economic policy, and the role of the federal government."

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