Have Historians Overemphasized Slavery As a Cause of the Civil War? The Civil War took more American lives than any other war in history. It was a war of division. It was brother against brother; north against south; and person against person fighting that left a heritage of grief and bitterness that in part still remains to this day. It was a great turning point in American history. It abolished slavery completely in the United …
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…a way of life, and the North saw this as a threat to the national government. The north was afraid that the overpowering Slave Power would eventually rise above the government and the South, in a sense would overtake the North. Therefore, the North fought for what they were against, and eventually won the Civil War. This war was a turning point in American history, and we still are learning from it to this day.