When the Civil War began in 1861 it began for many political reasons all of the reasons were affected by slavery‚ but the war was not entirely about slavery. It is a belief that President Lincoln and the north started the war because they were fighting for slavery‚ but this common belief in not completely true. They fought to protect the Union. Because of the willingness of the African Americans to fight in the war they changed the idea of slavery and new reasons for the fighting of one of the
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The death toll of the Civil War is equal to the Trade Towers event occurring every Tuesday for four years. In the 1820 congress solved a new crisis by admitting Maine to the Union as a free state to balance the admission of Missouri as a slave state. By 1850 the United States was evenly divided with fifteen Free states and fifteen slave states. There are many causes of the Civil War but‚ there are only three main causes. Those three causes are the different economies of the North and South‚ the political
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century‚ a war arose in the United States that had a tremendous impact on America as a whole. The war (Civil War) shaped America into what it is today. It made a change‚ a good change on the American people. Throughout this essay‚ I’m going to discuss what caused the civil war. In other words‚ there were many things that led up to the civil war‚ including‚ slavery‚ the south depending on the north‚ and the violence that was happening in both the South and the North. Therefore‚ the civil war was caused
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Civil War DBQ Americans are a democratic society that are driven for success. During the early nineteenth century the Americans were living off the buzz of the constitution and working together to form a functioning government. As Lincoln wisely said later on "A house divided against itself cannot stand.” The issue of slavery was one of such magnitude that division on such an issue would inevitably lead to a war‚ and could not have been avoided by compromise. With the Missouri Compromise
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Abraham Lincoln‚ means that the best way to win a war‚ is to ally with the enemy and then attack them. The tensions were high between the North and South and they were about to go to war. The Civil War was caused by societal tensions about slavery‚ and the results of tariffs and slavery on the economy. There were many things that caused the Civil War‚ and one of the causes of the Civil War was societal tensions over slavery. One reason the Civil War was caused by the societal tensions about slavery
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Exam Document Based Questions 1a. What policy toward the continuation of slavery does Lincoln support? As long as we do not allow slavery to expand it will eventually die out. The founding fathers of our nation first established the policy and Lincoln is just trying to bring it back. 1b. Why does Lincoln support that policy? President Lincoln supports the policy because he eventually wamts slavery to die out. He realizes that it will not go away if he just makes it illegal over night so he
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There were many events‚ people‚ and opinions that caused the U.S. Civil War in 1861. But the three biggest causes were states rights versus federal rights‚ the abolition movement‚ and the controversy of allowing slavery in the territories. Although these may appear to be vague‚ it was the events inside that made the difference. The South had a vested interest in not allowing the federal government to interfere with their state rights. The South claimed the federal government is prohibited by the
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Kathie Kaidan 4/14/10 HST 202 Paper #2 There is much controversy and uncertainty about the reasons of why the Civil War started‚ and why it went on for so long. The Civil War is unusual not only in American History‚ but in world history as well because of the intensity and carnage of it. Men were taking up arms against their neighbors‚ fathers‚ sons‚ brothers‚ and friends to meet on the field of battle with only one mission: to kill one another. James McPherson wondered this‚ so he researched
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The United States as a whole was divided before the Civil War‚ over the dispute of whether slavery should be allowed or not after the Mexican American war ended in 1848. After the Mexican American war citizens of the North and the South began to dispute the issue of slavery and tensions started to rise. There were many things proposed that were proposed to help the dispute over slavery such as the Wilmot Provisio which would close off California‚ Utah and New Mexico off from slavery. However it
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The American Civil War‚ a war that pinned the U.S.A against herself and created a rift between North and South. This complex war lasted about four years in which both sides suffered great casualties. Due to the intricacy of the Civil War‚ there is much that can be learned from what occurred over those years before during and after. The most interesting aspect of this civil war is actually the politics behind it. Specifically how Lincoln was able to change what the North was fighting for. After
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