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| - The Treaty of Charleston, the document that ended the war, forever ensured that the South was independent from the old United States, and that the Union could never hope to dominate and control the Confederacy, as the latter nation's people proved they were determined enough to be able to come back and win after defeat. The South also began to induct former black slaves further into the nation since their liberation over 20 years before, going as far as creating all black military units that fought in Mexico. However, no promises for other freedoms were guaranteed, and many rights gained during the war were later lost.
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| - The Treaty of Charleston, the document that ended the war, forever ensured that the South was independent from the old United States, and that the Union could never hope to dominate and control the Confederacy, as the latter nation's people proved they were determined enough to be able to come back and win after defeat. The South also began to induct former black slaves further into the nation since their liberation over 20 years before, going as far as creating all black military units that fought in Mexico. However, no promises for other freedoms were guaranteed, and many rights gained during the war were later lost. The Confederacy and the Pacific Republic were the biggest winners in the war: they divided the entire Mexican territory of Arizona between them, which provided them with a border to each other, and the ability to build a trans-continental railway, which, before the Panama Canal was built, ensured them the ability to transport goods from the factories in the East Coast factories to ports in the West Coast towards Asia and the Orient, which was cheaper and safer than shipping through the dangerous Cape Horn passage. President James G. Blaine, due to his handling of the war, as well as the corrupt dealings of several appointed politicians, was impeached on January 17, 1884, and his Vice-President, William A. Wheeler, ascended to the position of President to the remainder of his term: he would eventually lose the elections to Grover Cleveland. General George A. Custer, a hero of the war, left the military to become involved in politics, starting as a short-term Governor of his home state of Ohio, then as Vice-President on the Nationalist-Democratic ticket in 1888, with President Cleveland. However, Cleveland died of a heart attack barely two years into his second term, and Custer was sworn in as President the next day, and called for the "... rebuilding of the Union into the dominating power of North America." The United Kingdom, victorious over the US attempts to capture the Oregon Territory, and giving them a Pacific Coast, and their Dominion of Canada, bitter over the creation of the Republic of Assiniboia, managed to annex large portions of the fledging nation, forcing the shifting of the capital city from Winnipeg to Wascana, in the territory of Saskatchewan, over 600 km from the former capital. Alaska and Assiniboia were also forced to give up lands to the British, which was formed into British Alaska.
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