Well, according to the US Constitution, it is the Creator, or God who gives men their unalienable rights. All men are born equal, and by being born, are given their unalienable rights which cannot be taken away from them.
Perhaps the greatest contribution of Grant and Sherman (Grant being the leader of the Northern forces) was that they knew when not to fight--that is when to hold back--since the North's army greatly outnumbered that of the South.
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The cause of World War I, which made the aforementioned items transferred to alliances, imperialism, militarism, nationalism was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. When Russia began to prepare for WW1 due to the alliance with Serbia, Germany declared war on Russia.
The answer is, Battle of Fort McHenry