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This paper examines the decade of the 1860s in the United States. Part of the paper focuses on the Civil War and its impact on the nation outside of the conflict. The paper also examines other developments during this time including the development of the germ theory, the linking of the intercontinental railroad and the development of the Periodic Table of Elements. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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decade was taken up by either actual fighting (between 1861 and 1865), or by Reconstruction and the painful process of attempting to reunite a country that had been horribly divided
both physically, through conflict, and emotionally, through differing views and attitudes. As this paper will indicate, the conflict had a great deal of influence on the philosophy, culture and thoughts
of the nation. Yet in addition to the North-South conflict, the 1860s brought forward more positive things, especially in the areas of
technology and science. Transportation, too, took great leaps forward as the Western half of the country was connected to the Eastern Seaboard. So while the North-South conflict changed the country
in many ways, other equally noteworthy things were occurring. A Nation Divided Perhaps the largest event in U.S. history during the 1860s
was the conflict between the North and the South, known respectively as the Union and Confederacy. Although commonly called the "Civil War," the name is misleading, as the war was
more about politics and economics then it was about class struggle (Civil War in U.S. History). It was also the only prolonged war to be fought on U.S. soil, thus
also making it unique in history. Although names such as "War Between the States" and "War of Rebellion" are more accurate (Civil War in U.S. History), for purposes of this
paper, well use "Civil War." To this day, experts are unable to agree about the basic causes of this war, as the
causes combined politics, economics and general ways of life (Civil War in U.S. History). What experts do agree on, however, is that the igniting spark of the war dated
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