-The Civil War is a Present Struggle- The Civil War was one of the bloodiest wars in history- more than 620‚000 people died by fighting for the Union or the Confederacy. All those lives that got sacrificed‚ but‚ we still‚ to this day‚ fail to understand the reasons they perished for they stood for what was right in their eyes. The Union was anti-slavery and despised the act. They fought to make sure that in the future‚ slavery and racism wouldn’t exist anymore. The Confederacy fought for the fact
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1. Examine the social‚ political‚ and economic impact of civil war on the South‚ its values‚ and its people. Social: * Increased urban growth * Cities grew because of the shift towards manufacturing‚ growth of bureaucratic agencies to oversee manufacturing‚ RR‚ shipping‚ tax collection. * Urban growth resulted in the expansion of construction jobs‚ transportation developments * Changed roles for women * Headed households and performed men’s work *
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overhaul of the Federal government. With the exception of Rhode Island‚ these men came from all over the states: large and small‚ north and south. This diversity in delegates helped create a balance of ideas that would become known as constitutional compromises. Without these integral ideas coming together‚ we would not have the government we know today. The delegates of Virginia were the first and most voiced of the crowd. They came straight in with a clear idea of what they wanted to achieve. Edmund
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First Name Last Name Hist 109 May 13‚ 2013 Civil War Paper Origins of the Civil War The military conflict within the United States around the years 1861 until 1865 between the Union and the Confederacy went into history as the American Civil War. The origins of this conflict have and were foreseen and discussed by the two elite politicians Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. Both differed in ideology about what could have been the more successful political direction the nation should
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Reconstruction was a twelve-year period (1865–1877) of rebuilding that followed the Civil War (1861–1865)‚ a conflict between the United States (the Union; states mostly located in the North) and states in the South (the Confederacy). The Confederacy took stand for their independence while the Union fought for the preservation of their region. Each conflicting side had their set goal in the Civil War. However‚ after the War and Reconstruction the South emerged to be profoundly different from the antebellum
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Compromise of 1850 The Compromise of 1850 was made in 1850‚ to help the problem of California being turned into a free or slave state. In order to please the North‚ it proposed California would be admitted as a free state and the slave trade would be abolished in Washington D.C. In order to please the South it proposed that Congress would not pass laws regarding slavery for the rest of the territories won from Mexico‚ and Congress would pass a stronger law to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves
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Causes of the Civil War Essay Social long term: ● North was opposed to slavery while the South was pro slavery ● The primary conflict of the civil war was whether the states had the right to decide what they wanted to do with slavery. (radical abolition vs pro slavery) ● One of the arising conflicts that led to the American Civil war was the growing abolition movement in the North ● which was an effort to end slavery in a nation that valued personal freedom and believed "all men are created equal
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The Missouri Compromise The Missouri Compromise‚ written by Henry Clay‚ attempted to limit the slavery boundaries; it was later declared unconstitutional and is also considered one of many events that led to the American Civil War. The compromise became a precedent for settling subsequent North and South disagreements over slavery and duty issues‚ and it remained in effect until rescinded by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. The Missouri Compromise eased tensions between the North and the South
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Summary of Source The Compromise entailed the division of the Northern and Southern states‚ that was proposed by the Henry Clay to the Senate and had occurred after the appeal of the Missouri Compromise and Compromise Tariff of 1832. He wanted to decentralize the act of using nationalistic pride with territory and statesmen. Clay wanted the North and South to come to an agreement with each other without ruining the nation. He initiated his speech by giving a synopsis of what a negotiation incorporates
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union split into rivaling sections ultimately leading to the Civil War. The debate over slavery and the provisions relating to it in the Constitution was a heated one at the Constitutional Convention. The issues of the slave’s rights as either men or the property of their owners‚ the future of slavery in new territories‚ and the abolition of slavery and emancipation of slaves were never solved but rather a compromise made. The compromise was in return for the South’s support for the ratification of
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