The costs of the Civil War included over 630‚000 American lives lost‚ destruction and damage to lands and cities in the South‚ and total economic costs of the war estimated to be $6‚190‚000‚000. By the end of the war‚ the South faced reconstruction both economically and culturally. A majority of Southern towns were destroyed and had hardly enough money to rebuild. The Civil War led to a boom in manufacturing‚ developments in communication‚ increase in railroad use and eventually an Industrial Revolution
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Confederates became serious. On April 12‚ 1861‚ the thirty-three states‚ Union‚ and Confederate‚ went to war. This Civil War lasted four long years. Ending on May 9‚ 1865‚ with approximately 620‚000 deaths and thousands of casualties‚ the Civil War is to date the bloodiest war in the history of the United States. The effects of the Civil War are still present to this day. The primary causes of the civil war were the different opinions on slavery‚ the growing abolition movement‚ and the Dred Scott decision
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tempting to argue that battles and entire wars are exactly as they seem. This common problem is readily found in two wars fought in the 1860s: the American Civil War (1861-1865) and the Austro-Prussian War (1866). However‚ while it is easy to consider the American Civil War as simply a war fought by the Union to maintain territorial integrity throughout the relatively young United States‚ and the Austro-Prussian War as merely the “middle” war of the three wars of German Unification meant to expand “German”
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During the Civil War‚ Georg a‚ a state in the Confederacy recognized that soldier’s families were suffering from having the men at war; the women and children were forced to take over the responsibilities of the men. “The Georgia government started programs that gave money and salt to the civil war veteran families”(Fowler‚ 2010. P.11) The Georgian government created the Soldiers’ Families Fund to provide financial assistance to make sure confederate families had enough money to survive on while
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building of forts‚ but also in gathering of military intelligence. If we examine the initial contraband‚ James‚ Mallory‚ and Townsend‚ they provided essential intel that was beneficial to the Union war efforts. The author also examines how vital free blacks and enslaved were “invaluable ally” to both the Union and the Confederacy. It was as the Union army pushed further onto their campaign and expanded the perimeter line with Fort Monroe‚ that it increases the need of the escaped slave’s military
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rights but what truly divided them was slavery. South could not put up with the fact to abolish slavery because business ran high in this aspect. Textiles were the prime resource supported by slavery which is half of the U.S. economy‚ and that the North’s industrial age came about because of it. Afraid of the collapse of their way of life secession from the Union was in order with the creation of the Missouri compromise. If slavery were to be illegal‚ the results could be devastating. What would become
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on the Great Plains (22 points) Describe the changes that took place on the Great Plains before and after the Civil War. Do this by filling in the chart provided by using the text and the internet. Make sure that all answers are complete. The first section has been done for you. Category: People Pre-Civil War: Sioux‚ Cheyenne‚ Arapahoe‚ Nez Perce Post-Civil War: Farmers‚ Ranchers Category: Building Materials Pre-Civil War: Buffalo Remains Post-Civil War: Bricks of sod Category:
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I disagree to an extent that the civil war was the intended outcome of an effort to reform the monarchy and secure a stable government. Parliament wanted political reform in England but did not seek to abolish the monarchy or start a war‚ they just wanted a balance of power between the monarchy and parliament‚ however King Charles I refused to compromise. The first English civil war was caused by a political and religious divide across England‚ Scotland and Ireland and in parliament. Although England
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Causes of the Civil War John Brown’s Raid vs. Industrial Revolution John Brown’s Raid was a more influential cause to the civil war than the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution caused incompability between the North and the South. The North relied on wage laborers with the new machine age economy while the South relied heavily on slaves. So‚ the North did not need slaves for their economy and fought to free the slaves. The South fought
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The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states. When Abraham Lincoln won election in 1860 as the first Republican president on a platform pledging to keep slavery out of the territories‚ seven slave states in the deep South seceded and formed a new nation‚ the Confederate States of America. The incoming Lincoln administration and most of the
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