Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
From 1861 to 1865, the United States lived through its gravest crisis: the Civil War. The North (the Union) against the South (the Confederacy). More than 620,000 dead.
The war turned a young republic into an industrial power, at the cost of a lasting wound to national unity and a reckoning with slavery.
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- 2Two Americas face to face
- 3Total war, then emancipation
- 4Northern victory, Lincoln's death
- 5Scars and legacy
Open-book quiz9 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary16 terms explained in a tap.
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