If the south won the Civil War The civil war started when the confederates bombarded Union Soldiers at Fort Sumter‚ South Carolina on April 12‚ 1861. The civil war ended in spring 1865. Robert E. Lee surrendered the last confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9‚ 1965. In addition the last battle was fought at Palmito Ranch‚ which is located in Texas on May 13‚ 1865. The civil was fought in several places from Pennsylvania to Texas‚ from Mexico to Florida coast‚ but
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Spain. It was no different during the Civil War‚ with the relations between the Union and Confederacy. Eventually‚ the Union won the war largely in part because the Union caused diplomatic issues between the Confederacy and their international allies‚ other allies supported them and the other countries have other wars to deal with. The American Civil War was a war fought by America on itself. The “Union” and “Confederacy” were the two sides fighting the war. The war decided the outcome of slavery in
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Ever since the waning battles‚ and the slow‚ contentious process of reconstructing the Union and the readmission of the Confederate States‚ the American Civil War has filled more pages of scholarly discourse than any other event in U.S. history (1). Amongst the endless topics to which these volumes are devoted‚ no topic is more debated‚ chronicled and studied than the various causes that lead to the bloodiest conflict in American history‚ and its effects on this country’s future. As the 19th century
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Dakota Clements Prof. Every HIST-1210-002 6 November 2014 Slavery in America Slavery has played an important role in American life today. When North America was first colonized by Europeans‚ the land was vast‚ the work was tough‚ and the availability of manual labor was hard to find. White servants paid for their passage across the ocean from Europe to the New World through indentured labor‚ but did not solve the problem. In the early stages of the seventeenth century‚ a Dutch ship loaded
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of African American slavery in the United States‚ between 1776 and 1860‚ was supported by social‚ economic‚ and political forces. As the nation grew and moved westward‚ the institution of slavery became deeply rooted in American civilization. As this occurred‚ slavery continued to exist and expand throughout the nation. At the time‚ the law‚ also‚ was not in favor of the slaves‚ which encouraged the expansion and continuation of slavery. In the South‚ slavery played a massive role in the agricultural
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Civil War The American Civil War is one of the most significant events that occurred in the United States of America. The Civil War‚ also appropriately known as the War between the States‚ was fought from 1861-1865. This war involved the rivalry between the states of the Northern and Southern territories. The War was declared when the Southern states declared their secession and formed the Confederacy‚ a new government‚ of the south. There has been many disputes over which societal events led
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1865 the United States engaged in a civil war. Tensions between the Anti-Slavery Northern states and the pro-slavery Southern states erupted into a Civil War after the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860." The divided states‚ that of the North and South‚ fought against each other‚ to finally end the dispute whether to accept or abolish slavery. Abraham Lincoln was the leader for the North side and Stonewall Jackson was the leader for the South. The Civil War could have been avoided if both sides
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Contrasting the North and South The North and South are both different‚ but they both have great strengths and weaknesses. The Civil War was started by The Kansas-Nebraska act. When Kansas got the right to vote‚ residents from Missouri crossed over the Kansas border to vote so that Kansas would become a slave state. Missouri wanted to make Kansas a slave state. “On July 21‚ 1861‚ the first battle of the civil war” (American Odyssey) broke out because of the feud between Kansas and Missouri. The
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Many factors caused the lead-up to the Civil War. The country’s tension was high before the Civil War began for many different reasons that contributed to the Civil War. The tension was high due to many massacres and laws that even heightened the tensions between the North and the South states. South states believed heavily in slavery and wanted to keep slavery around strongly and firmly since the South depended on slaves to do agricultural work. However‚ the North believed that slavery was bad and believed
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That dispute led to secession‚ and secession brought about a war in which the Northern and Western states and territories fought to preserve the Union‚ and the South fought to establish Southern independence as a new confederation of states under its own constitution. In the late 18th century‚ the abolitionist movement began in the north and the country began to divide over the issue between north and south. In 1820‚ the Missouri Compromise banned slavery in all new western territories‚ which southern
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