Slavery. At the heart of the divide between the North and the South was slavery.
States' Rights. The idea of states' rights was not new to the Civil War. ...
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The Civil War confirmed the single political entity of the United States, led to freedom for more than four million enslaved Americans, established a more powerful and centralized federal government, and laid the foundation for America's emergence as a world power in the 20th century.
