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Dissolvable- to break apart
Fundamental- of central importance
Revolution- forcefully overthrow the government/rebellion
Preserve- maintain something in its original state
Precedent- an earlier event
Garrison- the troops stationed in a fortress or town to defend it
Militia- "a military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency"- google search engine
Total War- "

1. a war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded."- google search engine

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From: "A Brief Overview of the American Civil War" by Dr. James McPherson-

"The war resolved two fundamental questions left unresolved by the revolution: whether the United States was to be a dissolvable confederation of sovereign states or an indivisible nation with a sovereign national government; and whether this nation, born of a declaration that all men were created with an equal right to liberty, would continue to exist as the largest slaveholding country in the world."

The American Civil War was the largest and most destructive conflict in the Western world between the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the onset of World War I in 1914.

By the spring of 1865 all the principal Confederate armies surrendered, and when Union cavalry captured the fleeing Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Georgia on May 10, 1865, resistance collapsed and the war ended.

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The claim that the war ended by spring 1865 is made in the 6th paragraph. That is correct because according to archives.com, "After the fall of Richmond, the Confederate capital, on April 2, 1865, officials in the Confederate government, including President Jefferson Davis, fled. The dominoes began to fall. The surrender at Appomattox took place a week later on April 9."

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Paragraph 5 says that the Union was able to win because they used the strategy of total war. That can be proven by History.com since it says, "Sherman’s “total war” in Georgia was brutal and destructive, but it did just what it was supposed to do: it hurt Southern morale, made it impossible for the Confederates to fight at full capacity and likely hastened the end of the war."

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The fourth paragraph of the article claims that the Civil War began on April 12, 1861. That is true due to the fact that Historynet.com states, "The civil war officially began on April 12, 1861 when Confederate forces bombarded the Union controlled Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay."

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In the 3rd paragraph it says, "Seven slave states in the deep South seceded and formed a new nation, The Confederate States of America".This scared the Northern side, making them think it would divide America into more smaller countries.

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The Civil War was not a small little war, in fact there was huge amount of people who died. According to the resource Wikipedia "...about 210,000 people died in combat and an estimated total of 750,000 U.S deaths including the Union and the Confederacy.''

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There is a lot of different thoughts on how the United States of America was effected by the Civil War. According to the Search Engine Google,"The 13th amendment the abolished slavery was ratified almost 7 months after the civil war had ended."

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All Confederate armies surrendered by the spring of 1865 and the Union army caught the Confederate President, Jefferson Davis on May 10, 1865. That marked the end of the war and the start of America's reconstruction.

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The Confederate army was able to survive for 3 years until General Grant took control of all Union Armies. He brought Lee to surrender in April 1865 at Appomattox.

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What started the war is the Confederate Militia's action of shooting at the federal garrison on April 12, 1861. By 1864, huge battles were fought and the Union resorted to the Total War strategy. The Union's strategy led to its victory against the South.

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Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860. That caused seven slave states to secede because Lincoln wanted to keep slavery from expanding onto new territories. In response to the slave states seceding, Lincoln and his administration refused to accept it. Thus, igniting the war.

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Even though America stayed together, it did so at a cost of mass death.

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The Civil War questioned how America would from then on live based who won and if slavery would be abolished or not .