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The civil war was a war between two sides of the United states. There was a north and a south side. They were fighting slavery, states rights and the westward expansion.

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The war basically all started from slavery. Also a big part was about states wanting the protect themselves from the federal government and saying what they believe. But the real war started from the attack on Fort Sumter.

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The North side of America was fighting to end slavery and preserve the union. The leader of the north side was President Abraham Lincoln. He agreed with the North states opinions. There were 20 states of the North fighting against the south.

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The south fought to defend slavery and not effect the union. They didn't want slavery to end but also didn't want America to split apart. The leader of the south was Jefferson Davis. He helped command what to do and help the south the best he could to win the war.

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The Westward Expansion was  the a movement of settlers into the American West, began with the Louisiana Purchase. It carried slavery down into the Southwest, into Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana. This was the states that wanted to keep slavery in the Civil War.

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The economic lives of planters, former slaves, and nonslave holding whites, were transformed after the Civil War. Planters found it hard to adjust to the end of slavery.

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Before the Civil War slavery was very common in the South. They were not treated as human beings, but as property and that led to exploitation and oppression of the slaves