American Civil War

noun

the war in the U.S. between the North and the South, 1861–65.

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The American Civil War was sometimes referred in the South as the War Between the States, and, later, the War of Northern Aggression.

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�� the hell does Donbas have to do with the American Civil War?

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He identifies with the violent abolitionist John Brown, who tried to start a slave revolt two years before the American Civil War and was executed.

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He called for a new American Civil War that "would finally lead to the inglorious break up of the 21st Century's evil empire, the United States of America".

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She questions Haley, now referred to as Ambassador Haley, about the root cause of the American Civil War.

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