Have Historians Overemphasized Slavery As a Cause of the Civil War? The Civil War took more American lives than any other war in history. It was a war of division. It was brother against brother; north against south; and person against person fighting that left a heritage of grief and bitterness that in part still remains to this day. It was a great turning point in American history. It abolished slavery completely in the United …showed first 75 words of 747 total…

…showed last 75 words of 747 total…a way of life, and the North saw this as a threat to the national government. The north was afraid that the overpowering Slave Power would eventually rise above the government and the South, in a sense would overtake the North. Therefore, the North fought for what they were against, and eventually won the Civil War. This war was a turning point in American history, and we still are learning from it to this day.