Read this excerpt from the constitution of the confederate states. on which event or issue can historians gain insight from this excerpt? .

we, the people of the [united states] confederated states, each state acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a [more perfect union] permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility [provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare], and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, invoking the favor and guidance of almighty god, do ordain and establish this constitution for the [united] confederate states of america."

Historians can gain insight from this excerpt by reading on the American Civil War.

The American Civil War was a war (although Congress never issued a Declaration of War) waged in the United States from 1861 to 1865. As a result of the historical controversy over slavery, the war broke out in April 1861, when the forces of the Confederate States of America attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina, shortly after President Abraham Lincoln took office. The nationalists of the Union proclaimed loyalty to the Constitution of the United States. They confronted secessionists from the Confederate States, who defended the rights of the states to expand slavery and drafted their own Constitution, from which the excerpt of this question has been extracted.

Among the 34 states of the United States in February 1861, seven southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States to form the Confederate States of America, or the South. The Confederation grew to include eleven slave states. The Confederation was never diplomatically recognized by the Government of the United States, nor was it recognized by any foreign country (although the United Kingdom and France granted it belligerent status). The states that remained loyal to the United States (including the border states where slavery was legal) were known as the Union or the North.

The Union and the Confederation quickly raised voluntary and conscript armies that fought mainly in the South for four years. The Union finally won the war when General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at the Battle of Appomattox Court House, followed by a series of surrenders of Confederate generals in all the southern states. Four years of intense fighting left between 620,000 and 750,000 people dead, more than the number of military deaths in the United States in all other wars combined (at least until the Vietnam War). South was destroyed, especially transportation systems. The Confederation collapsed, slavery was abolished and 4 million slaves were freed. The Age of Reconstruction (1863-1877) overlapped and followed the war, with the process of restoring national unity, strengthening the national government and granting civil rights to freed slaves throughout the country. The Civil War is the most studied and written episode about the history of the United States.

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