northern and southern states of America were disagreeing on. These disagreements eventually led to the Civil War. The common myth of the Civil war is that it was a war fought over the issue of slavery. So if slavery was not the reason for the war‚ what was? The war was fought to preserve the union‚ to keep the United States as one. Understanding the reasons for the south’s secession and the war requires the examination of the opposing views of the North and the South‚ the Dred Scott Decision‚ the
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"Those who deny freedom to others‚ deserve it not for themselves..." (Abraham Lincoln) Between the years of 1861 to 1865‚ the United States was at war with itself over slavery. This war is known as the Civil War. The Civil War amendments (13th‚ 14th‚ and 15th) deeply impacted both black and white people of America. The 13th amendments states‚ "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude... shall exist within the United States‚ or any other place in their jurisdiction." The 13th amendment officially
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The American Civil War directly and dramatically influenced nursing as we know it today. It was this war that caused the need for training nurses." (Rush 1992) There was so much devastation on all sides‚ and so many wounded soldiers with so little help that military men called on women for support. (Black 2017). Women leaders arose who would change the image of nursing‚ and the way women were perceived‚ despite the skepticism of men that prevailed at that time. Such leaders as Dorothea Dix‚ who
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Compromise helped delay the Civil War by maintaining the balance of both slave and free states‚ discontinuing the slave trade in Washington D.C. and returning slaves to their original owners with the Fugitive Slave Act‚ The Missouri Compromise of 1820 maintained the balance of slave and free states for 30 years. This kept the North and south satisfied. Missouri was added as a slave state and to sustain the equality between both sides‚ Maine was carved out of Massachusetts and added as a free
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Before we speak about the African American experience we must understand why the war begin. There is a common miss belief that the war was started because of slavery. Now slavery did play a big role but‚ “The Civil War began as a southern war for Confederate independence and a northern war to defeat the Confederate rebellion and restore the Union. At the outset‚ neither side thought that the war would last very long or eventually lead to the destruction of slavery. The Confederacy was founded to
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The period after the Civil War was a very difficult time in the United States’ history. This time was known as the Reconstruction period and it was a very controversial time. There were many issues that had to be addressed such as what to do with the free blacks in the south and how states would be readmitted to the Union. This era saw the rise of the Radical Republicans. The government was going through changes‚ southerners were going through changes‚ and blacks were going through changes. Whites
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Compromises played a big role in delaying the civil war. It was an attempt to slow the spread of slavery to the states up north and also to the territories in the west. It kept the nation united by trying to give everyone something they wanted‚ in order to keep them all happy. In 1850 there was an equal amount of the free states and the slave states. The territories and states did not want the government to control whether or not they were a slave state or a free state. They wanted to base the decision
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There were many causes of the Civil War. The people of the south were angry with the election and that they were going to lose their way of life. The south was afraid of losing money and they didn’t think the slaves were humans. The south decided to leave the union and that caused a lot of hate. It was considered a treasonous act to leave the Union. It started with the election of Honest Abe. The South did not want him to be elected. The south wanted Breckinridge to become elected because he had
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actions‚ Lincoln was showing the US was against slavery but not the Confederacy. If like the leaders of these countries at the time‚ you took the time to read and study the act you would see it does nothing and in fact‚ Lincoln thought that the Afro American was not the equal of whites and his plan was to resettle the slaves in either the Amazon or Western Texas. Most people are not aware that there was a series of action and even proclamations for instance Lincolns correspondence of October 14
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The Tensions behind the Civil War During 1783-1859‚ before the Civil War‚ the North and South were slowly drifting apart between their cultural‚ economic‚ political‚ and religious tensions which eventually lead to the American Civil War‚ but it was ultimately due to the single issue of slavery. Proof of these tensions can be found in many primary sources including: “Slavery a Positive Good” by John C. Calhoun‚ “The Church and Slavery” by Albert Barnes‚ “A Debate on Slavery” by Nathan Lewis Rice‚
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