The alliance of the North and the West against the South helped to shape today's American society by ending the slave trade and the use of African-Americans as agricultural and domestic tools.
What was the American Civil War?
The American Civil War occurred when eleven southern (Confederate) states left the American Union in 1860 and 1861 because of the conflicting disagreement over the economics of slavery and its political control.
Thus, the North and the West joined forces against the South to create an egalitarian society without the evil institution of slavery.
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