Why Was the Civil War an Important Event in the Development

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Multiple Choice

Why was the Civil War an important event in the development of the American political system?

• A) It revealed how differently the North and South interpreted the Constitution when it came to the relationship between the states and the federal government.
• B) The leaders of the Confederacy relied on a view of American federalism that held that the country was created by agreement among sovereign states.
• C) The leaders of the Union believed the Constitution meant the United States is a sovereign country, and the preamble declared that "the people" had created an indissoluble union.
• D) Approximately 620,000 Americans died during the war; one out of every 10 able-bodied men in the North and one out of four in the South were killed or injured.
• E) It settled the issues of secession and slavery, and emphatically shifted the country away from a federal system.

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