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From 1861 to 1865 America was caught in the convulsions of war, the Civil War. No historical event, lacking the American Revolution itself, has so deeply afflicted america. The central question involved the type of the union. Was america one nation, or were america a group of sovereign states which could choose to disassociate? If America was a union then the powerful North could abolish slavery and impose tariffs on the slave-holding, agricultural South. If America was a confederacy, then Southern states could preserve their institutions by withdrawing from the union.What provoked this bloodletting? Both sides honored the same Constitution, spoke the same language, and worshipped the same God. But neither side could agree on whether America was a union or a compact of states. The United States at War series is a assortment of presentations that review the political, economic, and social forces which have erupted in military conflict and examine the way the conflict resolved, or failed to resolve, the forces that caused war.
