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"It is well that war is so terrible--we should
grow too fond of it"
Robert E. Lee
The Civil War
Causes
"(1861-65)
War between northern and southern states of United
States of America. It is considered the first of the
modern wars, using railways to move vast armies,
iron-clad ships, and strategies that considered whole
'theatres of war' and not just single battlefields. Some
theorists trace the cause back to the formation of the
country and what Americans wanted from a federal govt.
Protective tariffs on southern hemp antagonized the
North into changing the law. ..". Source:
Embass.org
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