The American Civil War killed 620,000 to 750,000 soldiers in four years β more American deaths than in all other American wars combined β and determined that the United States would be a single continental nation with a federally enforced ban on slavery. The industrial North's victory ensured that the United States would industrialise as one unified economy, becoming a global superpower by 1900.

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