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“Six hundred thousand men had died. The Union was preserved, the slaves freed. A nation ‘conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal’ had survived its most terrible ordeal.” Critically examine in 150 words.

  • UPSC 2013
  • Origins of Modern Politics

The statement sums up the American Civil War's (1861–65) outcome in three linked claims — enormous human cost, restored Union, and freed slaves — echoing Lincoln's Gettysburg Address formula of a nation tested and reborn.

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  • The Human and Material Cost
  • The Union Preserved, Not Simply Restored
  • Slaves Freed, Equality Deferred

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