colored people still have problems sometimes‚ but not as bad as times were in the past in the time of the Civil War‚ where words can’t describe how life was as a colored person around that time. With this 4 year event effecting 34 states at first but ending off with 36 states being effected‚ life had changed quiet a little towards the major things that needed adjustment‚ but there are still minor issues that need to be solved. To start off with the description of the event which is the Civil War‚ some
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Lincoln and Slavery Slavery is most likely one of the worst events that took place in America. President Lincoln had a very difficult challenge of maintaining a stable country as debates over slavery arose. Once the debates got out of hand and the country turned to fighting‚ war was inevitable. After the southern states seceded from the union‚ some northern men joined the army to reunite the country‚ and some to abolish slavery. The southern men viewed the north as a tyrant power taking away their
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president of America. Lincoln’s election to the interests of the southern plantation owners was a serious threat to the southern plantation slave manufacturing division. South 11 states have seceded from the union‚ he announced the establishment of the "Confederate States of America‚" and drew up a new constitution‚ election of a new president. Richmond became the capital of confederation States of America. The Civil War began. Shortly after the Civil War began‚ Virginia chose to join the Confederate
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the Northern States in the American Civil War are emancipation‚ a new financial system‚ and political freedom. The Civil War of America has been discussed as the first modern war of the new industrial age. Army’s of such a large size had yet to meet head on‚ face to face in the battle field with weapons of such mass destruction and deadly force. America had not yet seen casualties of this magnitude to date. The Civil War of America started out as army against army‚ Northern states against Southern
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When the Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union Army General‚ Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse on April 9‚ 1865‚ many considered the Civil War to be over. The fact that the North was victorious over the South was accepted and the process of reconstruction began in America. It was never openly discussed on why the North defeated the South. However‚ the question began to slowly arise over time on why the South lost the Civil War. Many historians have become
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Century‚ when the economy of the United States grew tremendously‚ there was a critical economic disparity between the Southern and Northern regions. The southern part had a growing economy based on large scale farming‚ which depended on free labor from black slaves to grow cotton and tobacco. The civil war took place from 1861 to 1865 because of inequalities resulting from slavery. This was due to the conflict that existed between the free and slave states over the efforts of the national government
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anti-slavery states‚ unbalancing the Senate even more. The Tariff of 1857 lowered duties to about 20%. North blamed it for causing the panic‚ because they felt they needed higher duties for more protection‚ Republicans economic election of 1860: protection for the unprotected and farms for the farm less. 1849 California gold rush Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: ended Mexican war‚ In December 1860‚ South Carolina’s legislature met in Charleston and voted unanimously to secede 6 other states joined South
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bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races." Explain why Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation in 1862. The Emancipation proclamation‚ passed in 1862‚ was a huge step towards racial equality in America. However‚ President Abraham Lincoln‚ the president responsible for signing the bill‚ was documented as stating that he was against equality of white and blacks‚ meaning he had a different agenda for signing the bill other than racial equality. Abraham
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and Navy) of the United States. It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states that were still in rebellion‚[1] thus applying to 3.1 million of the 4 million slaves in the U.S. at the time. The Proclamation was based on the president’s constitutional authority as commander in chief of the armed forces;[2] it was not a law passed by Congress. The Proclamation also ordered that "suitable" persons among those freed could be enrolled into the paid service of United States’ forces‚ and ordered the
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recognized. When the war began in 1861‚ the confederate and union states began taking in prisoners. These prisoners of war were treated very poorly‚ and some prisons saw a death rate of twenty-five to twenty-nine percent (Hall). Prison camps were described as having conditions worse than the battlefields. Every day‚ prisoners were fighting for their lives rather than fighting for their country. By 1862‚ both armies had large numbers of prisoners. The confederate states began with the most prisoners‚ but
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