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So many violent events took place:
1) assasination on Martin Luther King 2) assasination of Bobby Kennedy
3) Vietnam War getting very hot (Tet Offensive) and division within USA
4) Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
5) Protests, strikes, and riots everywhere in the world
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a major social upheaval
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The abolition of slavery and the resultant social upheaval it caused is the greatest consequence of the Civil War.
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