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The American Civil War, in which 3 million fought and 600,000 died, was the greatest war in the history of the United States and the only one fought on American soil by Americans. The paper shows that the Civil War of 1861-1865 is used to describe the conflict between the northern states of the union and the southern states that seceded from the union and formed the Confederacy. The paper explains that the war was fought with forces that came mostly from the twenty-three northern states of the union and the newly formed Confederate States of America, which consisted of eleven southern states that had declared their secession.

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"During the days of the American Revolution and the adoption of the Constitution, the North and South were bonded by their common interest in establishing a new nation, and differences seemed insignificant in comparison, however sectionalism steadily grew stronger. By the nineteenth century, the South had remained almost completely agricultural, and its economy and social order was largely founded on slavery and the plantation system. The North also had its great agricultural resources, however it was more commercially advanced and was also expanding industrially."

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