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What mistakes did the South which lead to them losing the war?

What events led to the North winning the war?

How many enslaved African Americans had to fight for the South?

Why did President Lincoln give his famous, //Gettysburg Address//?

Even though the Civil War ended almost 150 years ago, are there still remnants of it now?

I agree with the fifth statement, "... many Americans, even some Southerners, of the pre-Civil War generation looked upon slavery as a national disgrace and a great moral evil... in 1861 countless Northerners accepted war as an effective means of removing the curse of slavery and of creating a better and purer nation. Given such high moral purposes, they conclude that the war, whose prime cause was slavery, was both inevitable and justifiable." I think that this statement is correct because the central cause of the war was, in fact, slavery. If the slave trade had never existed in the United States, the Civil War would never have started in the first place. Many Northerners and some Southerners, though most didn't think slavery was immoral, knew slavery was a bad thing. This is the most important reason the Civil War started because slavery was the most crucial issue. A nation divided cannot truley survive.
 * Why the Civil War?**