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16 - The Civil War in the Americas

from Part III - The Global War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2019

By
Andre M. Fleche
Edited by
Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University
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Summary

When the American Civil War began in April 1861, statesmen around the world realized that the conflict held the potential to shape the future of the Western Hemisphere. Despite the rapid economic and territorial growth of the United States in the years after the War of 1812, the geopolitical development of the Americas remained unsettled. During the more than three-quarters of a century that preceded the Battle of Fort Sumter, a series of wars and revolutions had swept the hemisphere. As a result, the United States emerged independent; victorious slave insurgents founded the nation of Haiti; and Spanish Americans established a number of independent republics in South and Central America. To many observers it appeared that the people of the Americas had forever rejected the principles of monarchy and colonialism.

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The Cambridge History of the American Civil War , pp. 319 - 341
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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