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The Napoleonic Wars were the culmination of a particularly traumatic series of events in Europe. The wars had erupted immediately following the French Revolution, which challenged the very legitimacy of the monarchies in Europe. The French people had violently overthrown the Bourbon monarchy, executing the king and queen in the process. After a period of legislative unrest, a "monarchy" of sorts was restored by one of the generals who had defended the Revolution against the aggression of the other European countries, Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon then embarked upon a crusade to make France the preeminent power in Europe, crowning himself emperor of France along the way. Between 1800 and 1814, he undertook several military campaigns, forcing most of the European powers to accept his peace terms at various times. In doing so, he incurred the wrath of all of Europe and brought about his own defeat.

In 1815, after Napoleon's final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, all of Europe was exhausted by the almost continuous warfare since 1792. The leaders of the victorious European powers were determined to maintain peace by su

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ressure to change (McPherson, 1988, pp. 859-862). As one historian has stated, the society of the South closely resembled that of the majority of societies throughout the world. It was the society of the North that was revolutionary. Northern society readily accepted industrial capitalism and believed that the rest of the country had to change with it. Southern society feared such change and was willing to violently resist it (McPherson, 1988, p. 860). Therefore, the main consequence of the Northern victory was that change could continue and take place throughout the country. Although some in the South continued to resist such change (in a less violent manner), it was not arrested. Certainly, change in the South took place at a much slower pace than in the North, to the extent that the South became considered exceptional, rather than the North. However, most would later comment on how postwar American society differed from prewar society (McPherson, 1988, pp. 861-862). If there was one direct way in which the war affected American society it was in the horror with which Americans viewed war. More than 600,000 men from both sides had died during the war and much property had been destroyed. At a time when nationalistic E
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