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    Historians have different opinions on how the Civil War impacted the nation’s industrialization: positively or negatively. During the war‚ manufacturing increased greatly and the number of factories in the North doubled. However‚ men were also being shipped off to both armies to fight‚ leaving empty spaces in the factories‚ which historians believe hurt industrialization. The demand for weapons and supplies during the Civil War was high and caused both the Union and the Confederacy

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    The U. S. Civil War started in 1861 and that year Tennessee voters decided to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy. Johnson traveled

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    The civil war started on April 12‚ 1861‚ and lasted all the way until May 26‚ 1865. It was the most costly war‚ killing more civilians and soldiers compared to any other dispute and destroying many Southern towns. The Civil War‚ also known as The Second American Revolution‚ was a battle amongst the Union Army and The Confederate States Of America‚ resulting in Union victory. Abraham Lincoln played a major role in the Civil War. He was one of our most important presidents in American history because

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    America. The Civil War‚ even though it was so long ago‚ played a major role in America’s division. It has been 150 years since the last shots of the Civil War were fired. That was a war that divided the American people ‚ and in many ways‚ still divides Americans today. Whether it be race‚ gender‚ class or geographic location‚ Americans have always found a reason to hate or disagree with each other. President Lincoln started planning for reconstruction of the South during the Civil War as Union soldiers

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    Introduction In the years that followed the end of the American Civil War‚ and more than a hundred years after the first industrial revolution which was centered around textiles‚ the economy of the United States grew considerably as the country entered in its second phase of Industrial Revolution. The visual map of the United States has therefor been transformed by unprecedented urbanization as more and more people started to emigrated from the countryside to the cities. Also the new territories

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    Lincoln rejected the idea of secession and only a month after becoming the president‚ he lead the Civil War against the Southern states to preserve the Union and to spread equality and democracy. The Civil War is the bloodiest conflict that America has ever endured there was over 600‚000 dead Americans in five years. Lincoln had assigned Ulysses Grant to lead the Northern armies as a ruthless warrior and

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    whole. A lot of men can’t go into war unless if they are a certain age. The women can’t go into war unless if they become a nurse because they weren’t seen as strong enough as the men were. Since the North and South had a lot of differences they would always start a war because the South wanted what the North had. The South still wanted all of the machines that the North ended up inventing. In the Gettysburg Address it says‚ “Now we are engaged in a great civil war‚ testing whether that nation‚

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    Abraham Lincoln is one of the most well-known Presidents because of the things he did. Lincoln helped the United States get through the Civil War‚ which had the highest casualty rate of Americans than any other war. South Carolina threatened to secede if Lincoln won the election‚ so the state seceded on December 20‚ 1860. (South Carolina‚ 1862) After Lincoln was elected he had to travel to Washington‚ D.C. from Illinois. On the trip‚ Lincoln was supposed to go through Baltimore‚ Maryland. General

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    In the nineteenth century‚ the great nation of America that had been so successfully founded and developed by its united citizens was threatened by civil war. The early part of the century sought compromise that would end disputes between the Northern and Southern regions of the country; however‚ by 1850‚ tensions between the two parties had risen far beyond conciliation. These tensions that made compromise impossible centered mostly on the issue of slavery‚ and the zeal that many people had in defending

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    differences between the North and the South led to the Civil War in the USA. The two parts of the country were developing at a different speed in the first half of 19th century‚ leading to a disparity in their economic situations as well as their social‚ cultural and political beliefs. While it is true that the US Civil War was triggered off by the issue of slavery‚ it would still be unfair to say that this phenomenon was the only cause of this war. However‚ slavery was the burning issue and the primary

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