The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. ... Then began the Reconstruction and the processes of restoring national unity and guaranteeing civil rights to the freed slaves. ... Lincoln's March 4, 1861, inaugural address declared his administration would not initiate civil war. ... Root causes Slavery Contemporary actors, the Union and Confederate leadership and fighting soldiers on both sides believed th...

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Causes of the Civil War Was slavery the only cause of the Civil War? ... Many historians say that slavery was the main issue of the Civil War. ... Like politics, economics, sectionalism, and the constitution, and that slavery was just the match that set the Civil War off. "Approximately 620,000 soldiers died during the Civil War. ... Grant, a prominent general in the Civil War had a slave (Jordon 12)". ...

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