EMERGENCE OF USA
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND ITS IMPACT
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Detailed explanation-1: -What led to the outbreak of the bloodiest conflict in the history of North America? A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the moral issue of slavery. In fact, it was the economics of slavery and political control of that system that was central to the conflict.
Detailed explanation-2: -From Slavery to Freedom explores the quest for freedom by Africans in America from the enslavement of the 18th and 19th centuries to the civil rights movement of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Detailed explanation-3: -President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free."
Detailed explanation-4: -The predominantly southern slave-owners feared that this decision would cause the emancipation of their slaves. It did result in some slaves freeing themselves. To ensure the preservation of slavery, the southern colonies joined the northerners in their fight for “freedom” and their rebellion against England.