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Which primary source document could help a historian understand why the us civil war started ?

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The Emancipation Proclamation; this document was issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, it declared that all slaves should be freed. By this the north and the south went into war about keeping or getting rid of slavery.

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An editorial from the Charleston Mercury in 1860.

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