Early American Wars
History 120
University of Phoenix
September 3, 2005
Early American Wars
The Civil War began in 1861, and continued on until 1865. “The war claimed more American lives than any other conflict in history, with approximately 560,000 total killed (1.78% of population) and over 970, 000 casualties (3.09% of population)” (Wikipedia, 2005). To this day the cause of the Civil war and even the name of the war are still debated. Before the Civil War the United States was composed of four regions; the Northeast, the Northwest (known as the Midwest now), the Upper South, and the Southwest.
Each regions economic, social, and political development was growing during this time. Some more rapidly than others but the country was still growing. “With two fundamentally different labor systems at their base, the economic and social changes across the nation’s geographical regions- based on wage labor in the North and slavery in......
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