‘The English civil war started in 1642‚ primarily because of religious disagreements’. How far do you agree with this statement? On 22 august 1642‚ Charles 1 declared war against hi enemies in parliament. This led to a civil war where 1 in 10 men died. In this essay I am going to explain the main causes of the civil war and then I am going to see how much I agree with the statement. Charles got off to a bad start in 1625 when he married a French‚ catholic princess called Henrietta Maria. This was
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The Civil War’s outcome could have gone either way‚ on one hand you have the North‚ which had the industrial advantage‚ and the South on the other who had a home field advantage and better generals too. The war pitted brother against brother and father against son‚ and lost many wives their sons and or husbands. The victory of the North was due to many economical factors that hindered‚ and ultimately defeated the South. The North was the industrial part of the country. It depended on its’ factories
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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 Civil War left our nation in ruins in several areas. The many mixed feelings of what it did to us as a people and our nation have been felt for many years since its end in 1865. It not only abolished slavery but also effected the industries‚ exports‚ and technology throughout the country. Although the Civil War was primarily a conflict fought between the North and South over slavery‚ it was a turning point that greatly influenced the economy of both regions- both then and today. The Northern
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The Civil war began on April 12‚ 1861. The southern united states broke away from the northern half of the united states. The south became a confederacy. The immediate causes of the civil war were states rights‚ the election of Abraham Lincoln‚ and the expansion west. These were three of the main causes but what was the ultimate cause? One of the first main causes of the civil war was States rights. Southern states believed that they should have the say of what to do in their state. The southern
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examining the Civil War‚ many causes of conflict are often overlooked by the obvious cause of slavery. While slavery was somewhat of a cause of the war‚ it definitely wasn’t a big reason and makes the key reasons of conflict seem very small and dismal. There were many more causes to the Civil War like some that will be mentioned in this essay. The Civil War was not fought solely to end slavery and free the slaves. First‚ slavery was more of a symbol then a reason of conflict in the Civil War. The South
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Causes of the Civil War ¨A house divided against itself cannot stand.” These are the words of Abraham Lincoln. He believed that slavery was not right‚ and this was the reason our country went to the Civil War. There were many causes of the Civil War. The primary cause was slavery. Some events with conflicts were the Compromise of 1850‚ Fugitive state law‚ Uncle Tomś cabin‚ and the Election of 1860. All of these events were linked with slavery. One cause of the Civil War was the Compromise of 1850
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The Civil War of the United States was fought from 1861 to 1865. The war was between the southerners and the northerners. The war began in April 1861. It lasted for about four years. During that time many soldering has died in war. During the war there was slavery. One of the main causes of the war was slavery. Some people thought that there should be slavery and some thought that their wouldn’t be any. Slavery was going away in the border states and in southern cities. A cause that caused the civil
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On April 12‚ 1861 The Civil war began when Confederate warships bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumner. The Civil War is said to be one of the deadliest and most destructive of all America’s wars.The Civil War was fought in thousand of different places‚ from southern Pennsylvania to Texas; from New Mexico to the Florida coast. The majority of the fighting took place in the states of Virginia and Tennessee. Many still debate on what cause the Civil War. The North and the South have been
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The Civil War has many causes and with those causes they have effects. One cause is the election of lincoln and the slavery issue that had divided the North and South finally split the nation in two. And the effect of that is from April 1861 to April 1865 the USA and the Confederate States of America faced each other in bloody Civil War. But even though there are many causes and effects the main cause was a man named Dred Scott. Dred Scott was a slave who sought citizenship through the American
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