UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 2013 · Q5(b) · 10 marks
“Six hundred thousand men had died. The Union was preserved, the slaves freed. A nation 'conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal' had survived its most terrible ordeal.” Critically examine
- Chapter
- Origins of Modern Politics
- Topic
- The American Civil War
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