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  2. Origins of the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    For the history of theology in America, the great tragedy of the Civil War is that the most persuasive theologians were the Rev. Drs. William Tecumseh Sherman and Ulysses S. Grant. [79] There were many causes of the Civil War, but the religious conflict, almost unimaginable in modern America, cut very deep at the time.

  3. American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    The war left an estimated 698,000 soldiers dead, along with an undetermined number of civilian casualties, making the Civil War the deadliest military conflict in American history. [g] The technology and brutality of the Civil War foreshadowed the coming world wars.

  4. Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War

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    View history; Tools. ... Civil War is a chronologically ordered list of events and issues that historians recognize as origins and causes of the American Civil War.

  5. Historiographic issues about the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    Historiography examines how the past has been viewed or interpreted.Historiographic issues about the American Civil War include the name of the war, the origins or causes of the war (slavery or states' rights), and President Abraham Lincoln's views and goals regarding slavery.

  6. List of wars involving the United States - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of military conflicts, that United States has been involved in. There are currently 123 military conflicts on this list, 5 of which are ongoing. [citation needed] These include major conflicts like the American Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II and the Gulf War.

  7. Lost Cause of the Confederacy - Wikipedia

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    Until the 2019–2020 school year, the Texas social studies curriculum required teaching that slavery was a tertiary cause of the Civil War behind "states' rights" and "sectionalism". The updated curriculum describes the "expansion of slavery" as having a "central role" in bringing about the Civil War, but sectionalism and states' rights remain ...

  8. Civil war - Wikipedia

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    A civil war [a] is a war between organized groups within the same state (or country).The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies. [3]

  9. David M. Potter - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] He posthumously won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861 (1976), an in-depth narrative and analysis of the causes of the American Civil War. His main achievement was to put the history of the South in a national perspective.