The Civil War‚ a pivotal moment in American history‚ presented both advantages and disadvantages to both the North and South. On one hand‚ it provided an opportunity for each side to assert its ideals and values‚ but on the other‚ it brought about immense loss and devastation. As the Civil War began‚ the North held several strategic advantages that positioned it favorably. Firstly‚ the Union’s industrial capacity far surpassed that of the Confederacy‚ enabling the North to produce “weapons‚ ammunition
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issue of slavery would be handled in these vast new territories. The map explains how much land was acquired and the spread of slavery throughout the years of 1790 to 1860. The Missouri compromise admitting Missouri into the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state‚ but also stating slavery would be prohibited anywhere north of the southern boundary of Missouri in the future. The Missouri compromise had initially handled the status of slavery before 1846‚ from the procurement of the Louisiana
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There were many reasons for the Civil War. As an example‚ most people feel as if the Civil War was about slavery‚ although recently we have found that it was actually about federal and state rights. Slavery was a small but effective role in the Civil War. The southern half of the United States were “slave states” as the north were “free states”‚ there were always an equal amount of slave and free states. The south and north had very different views and constantly got into disagreements with each
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The Buildup to the Civil War The American Civil War was a four-year war in 1861-1865 between the United States and the 11 southern states that seceded from the Union and created the Confederate States of America. The 11 states seceded from the Union were South Carolina‚ Mississippi‚ Florida‚ Alabama‚ Georgia‚ Louisiana‚ Texas‚ Virginia‚ Arkansas‚ Tennessee‚ and North Carolina. The Civil War started after the presidency of Abraham Lincoln in 1861 with the secession of the southern states. After the
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the war. The Union had a lot of power and a better army. They had better plans to invade the land such as the ports they took‚ the support and the congress passing laws such as the Emancipation Proclamation. The North invaded multiple ports giving the North access to the Confederate both by land and water. The North would have soon been able to take all the land instead making them surrender. The North also had an advantage by having more men fight in the war. The abolitionists of the North were
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Slavery in the South A large proportion of whites in the South supported slavery even though less than a quarter of these whites actually owned slaves. They felt that slavery was a necessary evil and that it was an important southern institution. The slave population in 1800 was just under 900‚000 slaves and of that only 36‚000 of these slaves were in the northern states. In 1860 this number grew to almost 4 million slaves were in the southern states. Many important statesmen such as Thomas
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Why did the South Lose the Civil War? Beginning as a battle of army versus army‚ the war became a conflict of society against society. In this kind of war‚ the ability to mobilize economic resources‚ the effectiveness of political leadership‚ and a society’s willingness to keep up the fight despite setbacks‚ are as crucial to the outcome as success or failure on the battlefields. Unfortunately for the Southern planters‚ by the spring of 1865‚ the South was exhausted‚ and on April 9‚ Lee surrendered
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CHAPTER ONE 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND The problem of price escalation‚ especially in the construction industry‚ is a worldwide phenomenon‚ and its ripple is normally a source of friction between clients and contractors on the issue of price escalations. If this friction is not properly handled‚ this could stall the progress of work and may subsequently lead to project abandonment and the actual project will suffer with universal inflations of costs. [5]Although the causes of project
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The Civil War started April 12‚1861 with the attack on Fort Sumter. It was a war fought to preserve the Union and to free the slaves in the South. The North was more justified then the South for fighting the civil war because president Abraham Lincoln was trying to abolish slavery and bring the Union back together. The South was trying to keep slavery because without it there would be no one to pick the cotton‚ and that at the time was how the South made money. The civil war began with the attack
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helped the north win the war. Which is also why it was so hard to make the south conform to new laws that the government passed. As Mary Daly once said‚ “I had explained that women asking for equality in a church would be the same as a black man asking the KKK for equality”. Well‚ at least laws that had to do with civil rights for blacks. Except of course jim crow laws. In fact‚ jim crow laws allowing segregation if its equal which it wasn’t. Caused the south to be happy because it made them feel
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