War‚ it affects the world and everybody involved; the soldiers‚ government‚ and citizens. Most people only focus on the impact of it on the soldiers‚ but never take the time to think how it impacted the women at home and on the battlefield. The idea of a woman’s role in society has been ever-changing‚ and still is to this day. There was always a sense among women that they lacked in jobs and respect when compared to their male counterparts‚ but society never saw it‚ until the outbreak of the Civil
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US Hist. to 1876 Was the Civil War worth it? I believe that the civil war was worth it. Even though a lot of negative consequences came out of it‚ the positive outweighed the negative. The largest cause of the war was slavery. The North and South had contained their differences over slavery for sixty years after the Constitutional Convention. Compromise in 1787 had resolved the questions of slave trade and how to count slaves for congressional representation. The Compromise of 1850 was the last
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The Civil War was a life-changing event which both tore yet at the same time strengthened the young United States. Weaken or strengthen‚ the Civil War is "responsible for defining the nation as we know it" (Publisher’s Bindings Online). Thus‚ it is one of the most "written-about war in history" (Publisher’s Bindings Online). The Civil War was caused by a domino effect of events that started over a dispute over slavery between the North and South. Though slavery was not the only reason the Civil War
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since the ending of the Civil War on May 9‚ 1865. Its involvement in history has led to many important historical events such as the Civil Rights Movement. Where slavery is most discussed‚ however‚ is its importance and impact on the Civil War as well as the events leading up to it. Many historians argue that this is the most important factor to the war and the only reason that the war began. There are‚ however‚ many other issues that had their impact on the start of the war that were just as important
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The way things are now are very different from the ways they did it in the past. Cowboys led their cattle more than 25 miles a day. Wars with Native Americans started by land and cattle. Agriculture and cattle was how you got money. Another big part of Texas is its oil. Before oil was found in Texas‚ there was only one oil rig in the whole world. Scientists believed that there was no oil in Texas. In 1900‚ a team was hired to drill for oil. Oil in Texas had finally been discovered. On January
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There were many economic and political causes of the Civil War in the terms of conflict over economic policy and the expansion of slavery into the territories. Many documents‚ people‚ and events in history help to causes of the Civil War such as the Kansas-Nebraska Act‚ Missouri Compromise‚ Texas annexation‚ Wilmot Proviso‚ Compromise of 1850‚ Gadsden Purchase‚ the creation of the Republican Party‚ and the Dred Scott decision. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1854. The act
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The Civil war began in April of 1861. There were many reasons the Civil War began. For example‚ slavery was one of the reasons. Another reason was that the South wanted to secede from the United States because they believed more in state’s rights rather than federal rights. These are two of the main reasons the Civil War began. In the mid 1800s in the South‚ you couldn’t drive a mile without seeing a cotton field. Cotton was in high demand to make clothing and many Southern farmers made a lot of
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Middle School Disarmament Commission Topic: Justifying International Intervention in Civil Wars Country: Greece A. The issue of justifying international intervention in civil wars popped out most recently due to the various civil wars that have been happening after the 2000’s. The two major contemporary civil wars are the Libyan Civil war and the Syrian Civil war. The Libyan Civil war was a 2011 civil war in Libya that resulted in the change of government in Libya‚ resulting in the “liberation
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One of the most interesting questions in America is was the Civil War Inevitable. Could the North and South resolved their differences another way? Yes‚ if the federal government allowed the states to do whatever they wished and if the North and South did not care about each other the war would’ve never happened. The Heart of the conflict was that the states were originally independent. Slavery was one of the causes of the civil war. The South depended on slavery to fuel their economy. They had
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triggered the Civil war. The Civil War was fought between the southern states and the northern states. The war started in April of 1861 and ended in May of 1865. The Northerners had about 22 million soldiers‚ while the Southerners only had about 9 million soldiers. That having been said‚ The Northerners had over twice as many soldiers as the Southerners. The location of the war was all over the Unites states‚ but majority of the fighting occurred in Virginia and Tennessee. During the Civil war about 620
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