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Examine the issues involved in the American Civil War. Was it a contest between two separate nations?

  • UPSC 1991
  • Origins of Modern Politics

The American Civil War (1861–65) grew out of a tangle of overlapping issues — slavery, states' rights, sectional economies, and rival nationalisms — that together posed the deeper question of whether North and South still belonged to one political community at all.

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  • The Issue of Slavery and Its Expansion
  • States' Rights versus Federal Sovereignty
  • Sectionalism: Two Diverging Societies
  • Nationalism and the "Two Nations" Question
  • Historiographical Perspectives

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