were shaken by the onset of civil war. War between the North and South erupted was declared on April 12, 1861. The Civil War, or War of Northern Aggression, (depending on what side of the Mason-Dixon line you were raised), brought discourse in the Roosevelt home. ... The rest of Teddy's pre-teen years brought much of the same. ...

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