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for Britannica a four-year war, 1861–65) was fought between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve slavery, Britannica counting 11 Southern states.", "n": 1, "claims": [ "F1", "F40" ] }, { "para": 0, "text": "Decades of controversy over slavery came to a head when Abraham Lincoln, a Republican who opposed slavery's expansion, won the 1860 presidential election; seven slave states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America, four more seceded after the war began, and the war began on April 12, 1861, when the Confederacy bombarded Fort Sumter in South Carolina.", "n": 2, "claims": [ "F3", "F5", "F4", "F49" ] }, { "para": 0, "text": "On Wikipedia's account the origins of the war were rooted in the Southern states' desire to preserve slavery: historians in the 21st century overwhelmingly agree on the centrality of slavery, at least for the Southern states, and disagree on the North's reasons for refusing secession, whose primary reason it gives as preserving the Union, and a panel of historians said in 2011 that slavery and its discontents were the primary cause of disunion and that disunion itself sparked the war.", "n": 3, "claims": [ "F12", "F15", "F16" ] }, { "para": 0, "text": "The principal political battle leading to secession was over whether slavery would expand into the Western territories; the American Battlefield Trust's overview says the war started over the national government's power to prohibit slavery in the territories, the Gilder Lehrman card gives secession over slavery and territorial expansion disputes as its trigger, History.com names tensions over slavery, states' rights and westward expansion, and Britannica disputes over slavery and states' rights.", "n": 4, "claims": [ "F14", "F48", "F43", "F28", "F41" ] }, { "para": 0, "text": "The Lost Cause ideology, which denies that slavery was the principal cause of secession, is called pseudo-historical and disproven by the seceding states' own secession documents, Mississippi's declaration among them (\"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery\"), and the Beards, who downplayed slavery, are said to have formalized the Lost Cause myth in an interpretation abandoned by historians generally by the 1950s; the war is one of the most extensively studied and written about episodes in the history of the United States and remains the subject of cultural and historiographical debate.", "n": 5, "claims": [ "F13", "F24", "F25" ] }, { "para": 1, "text": "Lincoln initially claimed that preserving the Union was the central goal, while the South fought to preserve slavery; abolition became a Union war goal on January 1, 1863, when the Emancipation Proclamation declared all slaves in rebel states to be free, a decision History.com says Lincoln justified as a wartime measure, and by 1864, in the Trust's overview, a limited war to restore the Union had given way to \"total war\" to destroy the Old South and its basic institution of slavery.", "n": 6, "claims": [ "F20", "F6", "F33", "F50" ] }, { "para": 1, "text": "The Proclamation deprived the Confederacy of the bulk of its labor forces, and some 186,000 Black soldiers joined the Union Army by the time the war ended in 1865, 38,000 of whom lost their lives.", "n": 7, "claims": [ "F34" ] }, { "para": 1, "text": "The First Battle of Bull Run, on July 21, 1861, dashed any hopes of a quick Union victory; Antietam was the war's bloodiest single day of fighting; in 1863 the Union siege of Vicksburg split the Confederacy at the Mississippi while Lee's incursion north failed at Gettysburg; Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, Lincoln was shot by an assassin on April 14, Johnston's surrender on April 26 effectively ended the war, and resistance collapsed when Jefferson Davis was captured on May 10, 1865.", "n": 8, "claims": [ "F31", "F32", "F33", "F7", "F8", "F36", "F51" ] }, { "para": 2, "text": "The war ended with Union victory, the dissolution of the Confederacy and the abolition of slavery: the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery and four million enslaved black people were freed, and in the Trust's overview Northern victory preserved the United States as one nation, in a war it calls the central event in America's historical consciousness, which determined what kind of nation the United States would be.", "n": 9, "claims": [ "F2", "F9", "F46", "F44" ] }, { "para": 2, "text": "The war was among the first to use industrial warfare and was the deadliest in American history: History.com estimates 620,000 to 750,000 soldiers killed, the Trust 625,000 lives, and Wikipedia an estimated 700,000 soldiers dead in its lead and an estimated 698,000 soldier deaths, two-thirds by disease, among at least 1,030,000 casualties, while Jim Downs states that counting the enslaved people who died of disease, starvation or exposure would take the toll past one million.", "n": 10, "claims": [ "F10", "F11", "F37", "F46", "F18", "F19" ] }, { "para": 2, "text": "The war destroyed much of the South's wealth, in part because wealth held in enslaved people, at least $1,000 for a healthy adult before the war, was wiped off the books; the goals of Reconstruction, from the Union perspective, included ending slavery permanently and preventing semi-slavery status, while Jim Crow laws, Black Codes and other impediments would slow progress for generations, and with the withdrawal of federal troops the Jim Crow era of disenfranchisement and legal segregation was ushered in.", "n": 11, "claims": [ "F21", "F22", "F39", "F23" ] }, { "para": 3, "text": "A further reading accepts this conventional account in full: it records that the field holds slavery and its expansion to have caused secession and the war, cites Mississippi's declaration, Marx's conclusion of 1861 that at most the Morrill tariff went through Congress because secession had taken place, and Gunderson's estimate that slaves were 38 percent of the population of the eleven Confederate states and contributed 23 percent of whites' income, and holds that the stake was slavery itself, its value as property and its need for territory.", "n": 12, "claims": [ "V1668-16", "V1668-04", "V1668-05", "V1668-06", "V1668-55", "V1668-08", "V1668-09" ] }, { "para": 3, "text": "It records the \"Beard-Hacker Thesis\", quoted as having become the most widely accepted interpretation of the war's economic impact by the Second World War, as abandoned as an account of causes after about 1950 and cut down as an account of consequences by quantitative economic history, and reports that its research found no post-2000 scholarship arguing that the North went to war to obtain cheap wage labor for its industry, beside the thesis it began from, that the North fought to free cheap wage labor for its industry, which, it says, the record divides.", "n": 13, "claims": [ "V1668-10", "V1668-11", "V1668-12", "V1668-13", "V1668-54" ] }, { "para": 3, "text": "Its own object is the measurement of the laboring body before and after the abolition of property in it, and it holds that the war was fought over slavery and that its settlement reorganized the labor topology of an already integrated capitalism: the war changed what capital could own, and the techniques that converted human capacity into a number survived it and changed object.", "n": 14, "claims": [ "V1668-16", "V1668-01", "V1668-17" ] }, { "para": 4, "text": "It specifies two quantities that move separately, the juridical scope of the claim on the worker (the person and the lifetime, or labor-power for a bounded interval) and the grain at which productive activity is measured (life, year, day, hand, task, motion, second), reads emancipation as a discontinuity in the first, and holds on contemporary texts that slavery sold the person and wage labor sold capacity for an interval, with Hammond's slaves \"hired for life\" against hirelings \"hired by the day\" and Lincoln at Milwaukee reporting the mud-sill reasoning as a choice whether capital shall \"hire laborers\" or \"buy them\".", "n": 15, "claims": [ "V1668-02", "V1668-03", "V1668-28", "V1668-25", "V1668-26" ] }, { "para": 4, "text": "Before the war, it documents, capacity was already priced and measured: a reporter of a slave sale set a young man sold at $1,280 beside his counterpart \"in all marketable points\" who had lost his right eye and sold at $1,040, and put \"the market value of the right eye\" at $240, and slaveholders, on Rosenthal's account, measured workers against \"the prime field hand\" and its expected production per day, which the paper reads as a verb-measure attached to a noun.", "n": 16, "claims": [ "V1668-18", "V1668-19", "V1668-20", "V1668-21" ] }, { "para": 5, "text": "Of the war's labor result it cites the first fruit Marx names, the eight hours' agitation, and the Baltimore General Congress of Labour of 16 August 1866 calling for a law making eight hours the normal working-day, and reads the contested object, once the noun could no longer be sold, as the length of the day; it cites Du Bois's account that the black worker won the war by a general strike which transferred his labor from the Confederate planter to the Northern invader, reads that strike as the verb withdrawn from the noun's owner, and holds Du Bois a weaker source for Northern motive.", "n": 17, "claims": [ "V1668-32", "V1668-34", "V1668-33", "V1668-35", "V1668-36", "V1668-39" ] }, { "para": 5, "text": "Of the settlement it documents the Act to Encourage Immigration of 4 July 1864, which it calls the most direct federal instrument of labor supply in the war years and under which emigrants' pledges of the wages of their labor for up to twelve months to repay their emigration were held valid in law, read as the verb mortgaged in advance with the debt following the worker onto homestead land; the statute disclaims \"the relation of Slavery or servitude\" seven months before Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment, and a cited history records Congress repealing it in 1868 in the face of protests by labor organizations.", "n": 18, "claims": [ "V1668-41", "V1668-42", "V1668-43", "V1668-44", "V1668-45" ] }, { "para": 5, "text": "It reports Ruef's finding that under the Freedmen's Bureau's effort to reinstate plantation labor, despite similarities in coercion and the organization of labor, the valuation of wage labor was linked to human capital investments and statistical discrimination in fundamentally different ways, Stanley's that in the era of slave emancipation no ideal of freedom had greater power than that of contract, and Hartman's that black subordination continued under the aegis of contract, and it places the \"public and psychological wage\" it quotes, paid in part to white laborers, in the settlement of the war.", "n": 19, "claims": [ "V1668-46", "V1668-47", "V1668-48", "V1668-38", "V1668-65" ] }, { "para": 5, "text": "It reads the Thirteenth Amendment's exception for punishment for crime as opening a third configuration, the state holding the person by sentence and a lessee buying the labor, citing Georgia's making its prisoners available for hire in 1868 and Mancini's description of leasing as \"a means of racial subordination and labor discipline\", and it holds that the settlement abolished the noun as a legal form, put the verb under contract, pledged it as debt, brokered it and kept a penal exception, and closed toward contract and debt the opening that the freedpeople's own general strike had forced.", "n": 20, "claims": [ "V1668-15", "V1668-50", "V1668-51", "V1668-52", "V1668-57" ] }, { "para": 5, "text": "It states that it does not claim that Northern industry caused the war or fought it for labor, that freedpeople were moved North in numbers that fed Northern industry, or that wage labor and slavery are the same relation, states that the Northern wage-labor market was already formed before 1861 and that no source it consulted documents a line from plantation records to Taylor or Ford, and cites its field consensus through a Wikipedia summary, with a survey of historians listed as not yet read.", "n": 21, "claims": [ "V1668-61", "V1668-56", "V1668-23", "V1668-63" ] }, { "para": 6, "text": "Three further deposits relate the war at their own grades: a paper that presents itself as the second half of a two-part argument restates the grammar of the two halves, slavery having priced the noun and Fordism specified the verb, and reads as a third relation to the person a holder that held the body by confinement and was paid a daily fee in the form of hire; a reading of the Thirteenth Amendment, in two versions, holds that it reaches private contracts and, fully applied, abolishes every contract that binds future labor to present terms; and another deposit lists the Civil War's causes among its examples of major historical events, events whose public-knowledge framing shapes contemporary political identity, and defines a stabilized node as an event, among other kinds, whose public-knowledge background is deep.", "n": 22, "claims": [ "V1669-05", "V1669-02", "V1669-03", "V1669-04", "V497-01", "V497-02", "V1150-02", "V166-01", "V166-02" ] } ], "field_claims": { "F1": { "source": "B1", "locus": "Lead ¶1", "quote": "\"The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union (\"the North\") and the Confederacy (\"the South\"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve slavery in the United States.\"", "modality": "stipulation" }, "F2": { "source": "B1", "locus": "Lead ¶1", "quote": "\"The war ended with Union victory, the dissolution of the Confederacy and the abolition of slavery, freeing four million African Americans.\"", "modality": "documented" }, "F3": { "source": "B1", "locus": "Lead ¶2", "quote": "\"Decades of controversy over slavery came to a head when Abraham Lincoln, a Republican who opposed slavery's expansion, won the 1860 presidential election. 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They disagree on the North's reasons for refusing to allow the Southern states to secede.\"", "modality": "attributed" }, "F13": { "source": "B1", "locus": "Origins ¶1", "quote": "\"The pseudo-historical Lost Cause ideology denies that slavery was the principal cause of the secession, a view disproven by historical evidence, including the seceding states' own secession documents. After leaving the Union, Mississippi issued a declaration stating, \"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery—the greatest material interest of the world.\"\"", "modality": "documented" }, "F14": { "source": "B1", "locus": "Origins ¶2", "quote": "\"The principal political battle leading to Southern secession was over whether slavery would expand into the Western territories destined to become states.\"", "modality": "documented" }, "F15": { "source": "B1", "locus": "Origins ¶2", "quote": "\"The primary reason for the North to reject secession was to preserve the Union, a cause based on American nationalism.\"", "modality": "interpretation" }, "F16": { "source": "B1", "locus": "Origins ¶3", "quote": "\"As a panel of historians said in 2011, \"while slavery and its various and multifaceted discontents were the primary cause of disunion, it was disunion itself that sparked the war.\"\"", "modality": "attributed" }, "F17": { "source": "B1", "locus": "Secession crisis", "quote": "\"As Southerners resigned their Senate and House seats, Republicans could pass projects that had been blocked. These included the Morrill Tariff, land grant colleges, a Homestead Act, a transcontinental railroad, the National Bank Act, authorization of United States Notes by the Legal Tender Act of 1862, the end of slavery in the District of Columbia, and a ban on slavery in the territories.\"", "modality": "documented" }, "F18": { "source": "B1", "locus": "Casualties ¶2", "quote": "\"The war resulted in at least 1,030,000 casualties (3 percent of the population), including an estimated 698,000 soldier deaths—two-thirds by disease.\"", "modality": "documented" }, "F19": { "source": "B1", "locus": "Casualties", "quote": "\"Professor Jim Downs states that tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of slaves died during the war from disease, starvation, or exposure, and that if these deaths are counted in the war's total, the death toll would exceed 1 million.\"", "modality": "attributed" }, "F20": { "source": "B1", "locus": "Emancipation ¶1", "quote": "\"Abolishing slavery was not a Union war goal from the outset but quickly became one. Lincoln initially claimed that preserving the Union was the central goal. 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Beard and Mary R. Beard, whose The Rise of American Civilization (1927) spawned Beardian historiography. The Beards downplayed slavery, abolitionism, and issues of morality. Though this interpretation was abandoned by the Beards in the 1940s, and by historians generally by the 1950s, Beardian themes still echo among Lost Cause writers.\"", "modality": "documented" }, "F25": { "source": "B1", "locus": "Lead ¶5", "quote": "\"The war is one of the most extensively studied and written about episodes in the history of the United States. It remains the subject of cultural and historiographical debate. Of continuing interest is the myth of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy.\"", "modality": "documented" }, "F26": { "source": "B1", "locus": "Infobox, Strength", "quote": "\"2,200,000 total\"", "modality": "documented" }, "F27": { "source": "B1", "locus": "Infobox, Strength", "quote": "\"750,000–1,000,000 total\"", "modality": "documented" }, "F28": { "source": "B2", "locus": "Opening", "quote": "\"The Civil War in the United States began in 1861, after decades of simmering tensions between northern and southern states over slavery, states’ rights and westward expansion. The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 caused seven southern states to secede and form the Confederate States of America; four more states soon joined them. 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He justified his decision as a wartime measure, and did not go so far as to free the enslaved people in the border states loyal to the Union.\"", "modality": "documented" }, "F34": { "source": "B2", "locus": "Emancipation Proclamation", "quote": "\"Still, the Emancipation Proclamation deprived the Confederacy of the bulk of its labor forces and put international public opinion strongly on the Union side. Some 186,000 Black Civil War soldiers would join the Union Army by the time the war ended in 1865, and 38,000 lost their lives.\"", "modality": "documented" }, "F35": { "source": "B2", "locus": "Gettysburg", "quote": "\"Over three days of fierce fighting, the Confederates were unable to push through the Union center and suffered casualties close to 60 percent.\"", "modality": "documented" }, "F36": { "source": "B2", "locus": "End of the war", "quote": "\"Days later, Sherman received Confederate General Joseph E. 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While the Revolution of 1776-1783 created the United States, the Civil War of 1861-1865 determined what kind of nation it would be.\"", "modality": "interpretation" }, "F45": { "source": "B5", "locus": "¶1", "quote": "\"The war resolved two fundamental questions left unresolved by the revolution: whether the United States was to be a dissolvable confederation of sovereign states or an indivisible nation with a sovereign national government; and whether this nation, born of a declaration that all men were created with an equal right to liberty, would continue to exist as the largest slaveholding country in the world.\"", "modality": "interpretation" }, "F46": { "source": "B5", "locus": "¶2", "quote": "\"Northern victory in the war preserved the United States as one nation and ended the institution of slavery that had divided the country from its beginning. But these achievements came at the cost of 625,000 lives--nearly as many American soldiers as died in all the other wars in which this country has fought combined.\"", "modality": "documented" }, "F47": { "source": "B5", "locus": "¶2", "quote": "\"The American Civil War was the largest and most destructive conflict in the Western world between the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the onset of World War I in 1914.\"", "modality": "documented" }, "F48": { "source": "B5", "locus": "¶3", "quote": "\"The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states.\"", "modality": "interpretation" }, "F49": { "source": "B5", "locus": "¶4", "quote": "\"The event that triggered war came at Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay on April 12, 1861.\"", "modality": "documented" }, "F50": { "source": "B5", "locus": "¶5", "quote": "\"By 1864 the original Northern goal of a limited war to restore the Union had given way to a new strategy of \"total war\" to destroy the Old South and its basic institution of slavery and to give the restored Union a \"new birth of freedom,\" as President Lincoln put it in his address at Gettysburg to dedicate a cemetery for Union soldiers killed in the battle there.\"", "modality": "interpretation" }, "F51": { "source": "B5", "locus": "¶7", "quote": "\"By the spring of 1865 all the principal Confederate armies surrendered, and when Union cavalry captured the fleeing Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Georgia on May 10, 1865, resistance collapsed and the war ended. The long, painful process of rebuilding a united nation free of slavery began.\"", "modality": "documented" } }, "field_sources": { "B1": "Wikipedia — American Civil War - Wikipedia", "B2": "History.com — American Civil War: Causes, Dates & Battles | HISTORY", "B3": "Britannica — American Civil War | History, Summary, Dates, Causes, Map ... - Britannica", "B4": "Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History — The American Civil War | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History", "B5": "American Battlefield Trust — A Brief Overview of the American Civil War | American Battlefield Trust", "B6": "YouTube · Mapper Maniac — Why did the American civil war happen? (1:00)" } }, "L_B": { "words": 791, "text": "The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865, by Wikipedia's dates; for Britannica a four-year war, 1861–65) was fought between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve slavery, Britannica counting 11 Southern states. Decades of controversy over slavery came to a head when Abraham Lincoln, a Republican who opposed slavery's expansion, won the 1860 presidential election; seven slave states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America, four more seceded after the war began, and the war began on April 12, 1861, when the Confederacy bombarded Fort Sumter in South Carolina. On Wikipedia's account the origins of the war were rooted in the Southern states' desire to preserve slavery: historians in the 21st century overwhelmingly agree on the centrality of slavery, at least for the Southern states, and disagree on the North's reasons for refusing secession, whose primary reason it gives as preserving the Union, and a panel of historians said in 2011 that slavery and its discontents were the primary cause of disunion and that disunion itself sparked the war. The principal political battle leading to secession was over whether slavery would expand into the Western territories; the American Battlefield Trust's overview says the war started over the national government's power to prohibit slavery in the territories, the Gilder Lehrman card gives secession over slavery and territorial expansion disputes as its trigger, History.com names tensions over slavery, states' rights and westward expansion, and Britannica disputes over slavery and states' rights. The Lost Cause ideology, which denies that slavery was the principal cause of secession, is called pseudo-historical and disproven by the seceding states' own secession documents, Mississippi's declaration among them (\"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery\"), and the Beards, who downplayed slavery, are said to have formalized the Lost Cause myth in an interpretation abandoned by historians generally by the 1950s; the war is one of the most extensively studied and written about episodes in the history of the United States and remains the subject of cultural and historiographical debate. Lincoln initially claimed that preserving the Union was the central goal, while the South fought to preserve slavery; abolition became a Union war goal on January 1, 1863, when the Emancipation Proclamation declared all slaves in rebel states to be free, a decision History.com says Lincoln justified as a wartime measure, and by 1864, in the Trust's overview, a limited war to restore the Union had given way to \"total war\" to destroy the Old South and its basic institution of slavery. The Proclamation deprived the Confederacy of the bulk of its labor forces, and some 186,000 Black soldiers joined the Union Army by the time the war ended in 1865, 38,000 of whom lost their lives. The First Battle of Bull Run, on July 21, 1861, dashed any hopes of a quick Union victory; Antietam was the war's bloodiest single day of fighting; in 1863 the Union siege of Vicksburg split the Confederacy at the Mississippi while Lee's incursion north failed at Gettysburg; Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, Lincoln was shot by an assassin on April 14, Johnston's surrender on April 26 effectively ended the war, and resistance collapsed when Jefferson Davis was captured on May 10, 1865. The war ended with Union victory, the dissolution of the Confederacy and the abolition of slavery: the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery and four million enslaved black people were freed, and in the Trust's overview Northern victory preserved the United States as one nation, in a war it calls the central event in America's historical consciousness, which determined what kind of nation the United States would be. The war was among the first to use industrial warfare and was the deadliest in American history: History.com estimates 620,000 to 750,000 soldiers killed, the Trust 625,000 lives, and Wikipedia an estimated 700,000 soldiers dead in its lead and an estimated 698,000 soldier deaths, two-thirds by disease, among at least 1,030,000 casualties, while Jim Downs states that counting the enslaved people who died of disease, starvation or exposure would take the toll past one million. The war destroyed much of the South's wealth, in part because wealth held in enslaved people, at least $1,000 for a healthy adult before the war, was wiped off the books; the goals of Reconstruction, from the Union perspective, included ending slavery permanently and preventing semi-slavery status, while Jim Crow laws, Black Codes and other impediments would slow progress for generations, and with the withdrawal of federal troops the Jim Crow era of disenfranchisement and legal segregation was ushered in.", "note": "L(B) is realized as the field arm's expansion (objects.KO_B): the same plan, the field alone." }, "L_BA": { "words": 1839, "text": "The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865, by Wikipedia's dates; for Britannica a four-year war, 1861–65) was fought between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve slavery, Britannica counting 11 Southern states. Decades of controversy over slavery came to a head when Abraham Lincoln, a Republican who opposed slavery's expansion, won the 1860 presidential election; seven slave states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America, four more seceded after the war began, and the war began on April 12, 1861, when the Confederacy bombarded Fort Sumter in South Carolina. On Wikipedia's account the origins of the war were rooted in the Southern states' desire to preserve slavery: historians in the 21st century overwhelmingly agree on the centrality of slavery, at least for the Southern states, and disagree on the North's reasons for refusing secession, whose primary reason it gives as preserving the Union, and a panel of historians said in 2011 that slavery and its discontents were the primary cause of disunion and that disunion itself sparked the war. The principal political battle leading to secession was over whether slavery would expand into the Western territories; the American Battlefield Trust's overview says the war started over the national government's power to prohibit slavery in the territories, the Gilder Lehrman card gives secession over slavery and territorial expansion disputes as its trigger, History.com names tensions over slavery, states' rights and westward expansion, and Britannica disputes over slavery and states' rights. The Lost Cause ideology, which denies that slavery was the principal cause of secession, is called pseudo-historical and disproven by the seceding states' own secession documents, Mississippi's declaration among them (\"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery\"), and the Beards, who downplayed slavery, are said to have formalized the Lost Cause myth in an interpretation abandoned by historians generally by the 1950s; the war is one of the most extensively studied and written about episodes in the history of the United States and remains the subject of cultural and historiographical debate. Lincoln initially claimed that preserving the Union was the central goal, while the South fought to preserve slavery; abolition became a Union war goal on January 1, 1863, when the Emancipation Proclamation declared all slaves in rebel states to be free, a decision History.com says Lincoln justified as a wartime measure, and by 1864, in the Trust's overview, a limited war to restore the Union had given way to \"total war\" to destroy the Old South and its basic institution of slavery. The Proclamation deprived the Confederacy of the bulk of its labor forces, and some 186,000 Black soldiers joined the Union Army by the time the war ended in 1865, 38,000 of whom lost their lives. The First Battle of Bull Run, on July 21, 1861, dashed any hopes of a quick Union victory; Antietam was the war's bloodiest single day of fighting; in 1863 the Union siege of Vicksburg split the Confederacy at the Mississippi while Lee's incursion north failed at Gettysburg; Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, Lincoln was shot by an assassin on April 14, Johnston's surrender on April 26 effectively ended the war, and resistance collapsed when Jefferson Davis was captured on May 10, 1865. The war ended with Union victory, the dissolution of the Confederacy and the abolition of slavery: the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery and four million enslaved black people were freed, and in the Trust's overview Northern victory preserved the United States as one nation, in a war it calls the central event in America's historical consciousness, which determined what kind of nation the United States would be. The war was among the first to use industrial warfare and was the deadliest in American history: History.com estimates 620,000 to 750,000 soldiers killed, the Trust 625,000 lives, and Wikipedia an estimated 700,000 soldiers dead in its lead and an estimated 698,000 soldier deaths, two-thirds by disease, among at least 1,030,000 casualties, while Jim Downs states that counting the enslaved people who died of disease, starvation or exposure would take the toll past one million. The war destroyed much of the South's wealth, in part because wealth held in enslaved people, at least $1,000 for a healthy adult before the war, was wiped off the books; the goals of Reconstruction, from the Union perspective, included ending slavery permanently and preventing semi-slavery status, while Jim Crow laws, Black Codes and other impediments would slow progress for generations, and with the withdrawal of federal troops the Jim Crow era of disenfranchisement and legal segregation was ushered in. A further reading accepts this conventional account in full: it records that the field holds slavery and its expansion to have caused secession and the war, cites Mississippi's declaration, Marx's conclusion of 1861 that at most the Morrill tariff went through Congress because secession had taken place, and Gunderson's estimate that slaves were 38 percent of the population of the eleven Confederate states and contributed 23 percent of whites' income, and holds that the stake was slavery itself, its value as property and its need for territory. It records the \"Beard-Hacker Thesis\", quoted as having become the most widely accepted interpretation of the war's economic impact by the Second World War, as abandoned as an account of causes after about 1950 and cut down as an account of consequences by quantitative economic history, and reports that its research found no post-2000 scholarship arguing that the North went to war to obtain cheap wage labor for its industry, beside the thesis it began from, that the North fought to free cheap wage labor for its industry, which, it says, the record divides. Its own object is the measurement of the laboring body before and after the abolition of property in it, and it holds that the war was fought over slavery and that its settlement reorganized the labor topology of an already integrated capitalism: the war changed what capital could own, and the techniques that converted human capacity into a number survived it and changed object. It specifies two quantities that move separately, the juridical scope of the claim on the worker (the person and the lifetime, or labor-power for a bounded interval) and the grain at which productive activity is measured (life, year, day, hand, task, motion, second), reads emancipation as a discontinuity in the first, and holds on contemporary texts that slavery sold the person and wage labor sold capacity for an interval, with Hammond's slaves \"hired for life\" against hirelings \"hired by the day\" and Lincoln at Milwaukee reporting the mud-sill reasoning as a choice whether capital shall \"hire laborers\" or \"buy them\". Before the war, it documents, capacity was already priced and measured: a reporter of a slave sale set a young man sold at $1,280 beside his counterpart \"in all marketable points\" who had lost his right eye and sold at $1,040, and put \"the market value of the right eye\" at $240, and slaveholders, on Rosenthal's account, measured workers against \"the prime field hand\" and its expected production per day, which the paper reads as a verb-measure attached to a noun. Of the war's labor result it cites the first fruit Marx names, the eight hours' agitation, and the Baltimore General Congress of Labour of 16 August 1866 calling for a law making eight hours the normal working-day, and reads the contested object, once the noun could no longer be sold, as the length of the day; it cites Du Bois's account that the black worker won the war by a general strike which transferred his labor from the Confederate planter to the Northern invader, reads that strike as the verb withdrawn from the noun's owner, and holds Du Bois a weaker source for Northern motive. Of the settlement it documents the Act to Encourage Immigration of 4 July 1864, which it calls the most direct federal instrument of labor supply in the war years and under which emigrants' pledges of the wages of their labor for up to twelve months to repay their emigration were held valid in law, read as the verb mortgaged in advance with the debt following the worker onto homestead land; the statute disclaims \"the relation of Slavery or servitude\" seven months before Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment, and a cited history records Congress repealing it in 1868 in the face of protests by labor organizations. It reports Ruef's finding that under the Freedmen's Bureau's effort to reinstate plantation labor, despite similarities in coercion and the organization of labor, the valuation of wage labor was linked to human capital investments and statistical discrimination in fundamentally different ways, Stanley's that in the era of slave emancipation no ideal of freedom had greater power than that of contract, and Hartman's that black subordination continued under the aegis of contract, and it places the \"public and psychological wage\" it quotes, paid in part to white laborers, in the settlement of the war. It reads the Thirteenth Amendment's exception for punishment for crime as opening a third configuration, the state holding the person by sentence and a lessee buying the labor, citing Georgia's making its prisoners available for hire in 1868 and Mancini's description of leasing as \"a means of racial subordination and labor discipline\", and it holds that the settlement abolished the noun as a legal form, put the verb under contract, pledged it as debt, brokered it and kept a penal exception, and closed toward contract and debt the opening that the freedpeople's own general strike had forced. It states that it does not claim that Northern industry caused the war or fought it for labor, that freedpeople were moved North in numbers that fed Northern industry, or that wage labor and slavery are the same relation, states that the Northern wage-labor market was already formed before 1861 and that no source it consulted documents a line from plantation records to Taylor or Ford, and cites its field consensus through a Wikipedia summary, with a survey of historians listed as not yet read. Three further deposits relate the war at their own grades: a paper that presents itself as the second half of a two-part argument restates the grammar of the two halves, slavery having priced the noun and Fordism specified the verb, and reads as a third relation to the person a holder that held the body by confinement and was paid a daily fee in the form of hire; a reading of the Thirteenth Amendment, in two versions, holds that it reaches private contracts and, fully applied, abolishes every contract that binds future labor to present terms; and another deposit lists the Civil War's causes among its examples of major historical events, events whose public-knowledge framing shapes contemporary political identity, and defines a stabilized node as an event, among other kinds, whose public-knowledge background is deep.", "rail": [], "note": "L(B ∪ A) is realized as the knowledge object (objects.KO); its rail is the compression's, by lineage (§5.2)." } }, "field": [ { "id": "B1", "card": "Wikipedia — American Civil War - Wikipedia", "fetched": "WebFetch verbatim excerpts 2026-10-07, collated against the article's raw wikitext (action=raw, fetched the same day; markup, references and templates removed)" }, { "id": "B2", "card": "History.com — American Civil War: Causes, Dates & Battles | HISTORY", "fetched": "WebFetch verbatim excerpts 2026-10-07, collated against the page HTML (the card's URL redirects here; served title 'Civil War: Causes, Dates, Battles & Aftermath | HISTORY'; byline HISTORY.com Editors, published October 15, 2009, updated September 30, 2026; the card's '3 Key Civil War Battles' snippet does not appear on the page as served)" }, { "id": "B3", "card": "Britannica — American Civil War | History, Summary, Dates, Causes, Map ... - Britannica", "fetched": "WebFetch verbatim excerpts 2026-10-07 of the summary and key facts only (article by Jennifer L. 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It adds the two axes (juridical scope of the claim on the worker, grain of measurement) and the noun/verb grammar; the prewar measurement of capacity (the $240 eye, the prime field hand); the contemporaries' statement of hire and purchase (Hammond, Lincoln, Marx); Marx's first fruit, the eight hours' agitation, with the 1866 Baltimore congress; Du Bois's general strike and psychological wage, with Oakes's critique; the 1864 Act to Encourage Immigration (wage pledges valid in law, the servitude disclaimer, repeal in 1868); the Freedmen's Bureau's change in the valuation of black labor (Ruef), contract as freedom's ideal and subordination's instrument (Stanley, Hartman); the exception clause read as a third configuration, with Georgia's leasing from 1868 and Mancini. The field's sources meet it at the edges: Wikipedia's wealth in persons wiped off the books (F21) and Reconstruction's aim to prevent semi-slavery status (F22); History.com's Proclamation depriving the Confederacy of its labor forces (F34) and Black Codes (F39); Wikipedia's Republican program with the Homestead Act (F17), which #1668's homestead lien bears on; Wikipedia's Beardian historiography abandoned by the 1950s (F24) beside #1668's Beard-Hacker thesis abandoned as an account of causes after about 1950. Admission also adds a companion paper's restatement of the grammar and its third relation to the person (#1669), a constitutional reading of the Thirteenth Amendment's reach into private contract (#497, #1150), and the war's causes as a watched stabilized node (#166). Nothing admitted bears on the war's military course, its battles or its dead. 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