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The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan touch the U.S. economy in a variety of ways beyond the impact of direct spending. First, Iraq has a lot of oil, and swings in the country’s production levels have an effect on global oil pricing. By some estimates, Iraq has the second-highest amount of oil in the world, behind Saudi Arabia. The Wall Street Journal reported in December 2007 that improving security conditions had allowed Iraqi oil production to return to pre-war levels. But the former Iraqi oil...
Depending on what you mean, it changed when the north saw that slavery was not just, and started goin on the attack on it. Which lead to the whole civil war of confederates vs the union
Christianity? I’m not so sure but I think this is the awnser