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| | American Civil War |
 | | The American Civil War (1861–1865) was a civil war between the United States of America, called the Union, and the Confederate States of America, formed by eleven Southern states that had declared their secession from the Union. |
 | | The causes of the war, the reasons for the outcome, and even the name of the war itself, are subjects of much controversy, even today. |
 | | The origins of the American Civil War lay in the complex issues of slavery, politics, disagreements over the scope of States' rights versus federal power, expansionism, sectionalism, economics, modernization, and competing nationalism of the Antebellum period. |
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