The events of the Civil War and what led up to it‚ plus the outcome of the war during the Reconstruction‚ formed American history. This whole period of time took place from the 1830s all the way to 1872‚ and everything that happened helped the events that happened afterwards too. The Civil War did help America rid itself of slavery‚ but also birthed a new monster called segregation‚ which isn’t equally as bad as slavery‚ but it wasn’t good either. Sadly‚ these 40ish years were some of the most fundamental
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Politics had the biggest impact of all the PEGS on the road to Civil War. To start off‚ In Trigger Events of the Civil War it states‚”The case eventually rose to the level of the Supreme Court‚ where the justices found that‚ as a slave‚ Dred Scott was a piece of property that had none of the legal rights to recognitions afforded to a human being.”This means that‚ Dred Scott couldn’t get freedom even though he was in free land where slavery was illegal but he was still a slave. In addition‚ in Lincoln
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slavery. "The 1850 ’s was a time of attempted compromise when compromise was no longer possible." This quote best describes this time period‚ because Americans were trying to compromise their views to prevent a large conflict‚ but there were many events which made a compromise impossible. The Fugitive Slave Act was part of the Compromise of 1850. This act required that authorities in the North had to assist southern slave catchers to retrieve and return slaves to their owners. Southerners favored
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The Civil War was a very complicated war and had more than one cause. The Fugitive Slave Act‚ Kansas-Nebraska Act‚ Dred Scott decision‚ John Brown’s Raid‚ and the election of 1860 were all factors that led to the Civil War. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 out the Federal government behind slave catchers. This now made the assisting of runaway slaves a federal offence. This also was a problem for free African Americans because if a white slave catcher said that a free African American was a runaway
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The Civil War took place between 1861 to 1865. The war was fought to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. In January 1861 among the 34 states that were present then seven of the Southern slave states affirmed their withdrawal from the United States. Their departure led to the formation of the Confederate States of America. They steadily grew with the allegiance of six more states. The Confederacy was never diplomatically accepted by overseas countries even though
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What was the Civil War fought over? The Civil War was fought from 1861 to 1865 and is considered one of the most significant moments in American history. While many factors contributed to the beginning of the Civil War‚ one of the key issues was the question of slavery. The issue of slavery had been a controversial topic since the founding of the U.S.‚ with compromises such as the Compromise of 1850 and the Missouri Compromise attempting to ease the growing tensions between the South and North due
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lead to The Civil War lasting from 1861-1865. The Civil War was known as the bloodiest four years in American history. America was split up into two parts which were the North and South. The North was known as the Union and the South was known as the Confederacy. Jefferson Davis was the president of the Confederacy and Abraham Lincoln was the president of the Union. Jefferson Davis supported the idea of having slaves‚ unlike Abraham Lincoln who wanted to get rid of slavery. The whole war started when
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president of the United State a civil war broke out which lasted a whole four years‚ reasons were many and one of which is for stopping the slavery which was legal in the 11 southern states South Carolina‚ North Carolina‚ Texas‚ Florida‚ Alabama‚ Georgia‚ Louisiana‚ Mississippi‚ Virgina‚ Tennessee and Arkansas‚ they made the Confederate Unites States of America or CSA. The states that did not break away were called the union or the north. The war was fought primarily as a war of liberation from the Union
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Leading to War How did the civil war come to be? We can go back to as far as 1492. There were many seemingly unconnected events that led to the start of the civil war. Including the introduction africans to america‚ their introduction to slavery‚ and the moral conflict surrounding the issue. In 1492 Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas. When the news was brought back people began their journey to the new found Americas. Soon British colonies settled in Jamestown Massachusetts
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Tennessee and Virginia‚ followed by Texas later. The Confederate States left the United States and took control of the military installations‚ ports and other properties of the Union within the confines of the Confederation‚ thus triggering the American Civil War. Probably two were the root causes of secession: Republican intent to restrict and even eliminate slavery; on the other hand‚ the great limitations of political power of the States of the Union with regard to the ownership of
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