The Civil War: A country against itself Try to Imagine a Country dividing into two groups and fighting each other‚ sound fascinating‚ right? Well it happened to the United States in a war known as the Civil War when in 1861 seven southern states Louisiana‚ Mississippi‚ Florida‚ Alabama‚ South Carolina‚ Texas‚ and Georgia‚ all separated from the United states and formed the Confederacy of the United States to oppose the new promises that president Lincoln was going to give to the country. This event
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The rapid growth of cotton plantations down south greatly impacted slavery. Due to the high labor demands in the south it cuased a ripple affect decreasing the need for slaves in the north. The domesticed slave trade was devastating to African Americans. Half of the northerns slave population was transported to the south. Slave holders would often seperate husbands and wifes‚ mothers from children‚ as well as siblings for a number of reasons but mainly in order to prevent or hinder any attempts
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In the summer of 1919‚ World War 1 had officially ended through the Treaty of Versailles‚ though that was not the only thing that would end at the time. Under the Treaty of Versailles‚ Germany was forced to pay billions in reparations‚ make vast reductions in the army and other crippling punishments. The terms of the treaty had completely destroyed Germany through the economy. Jobs were lost‚ the currency had gone through major inflation‚ their land had been withdrawn from Germany and on top of it
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changing event began- the Civil War. The war’s effects and consequences were life-shaking and they consisted of death and reconstruction. It is a very debatable topic on whether the North or the South were the aggressors in starting the war. The causes of the Civil War include slavery and everything that came along with it‚ popular sovereignty‚ and the secession of the South. These incidents‚ slavery‚ popular sovereignty‚ and the South’s secession are the most significant reasons that the Civil War began
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War has a profound effect on public health‚ directly accounts for millions of deaths annually worldwide. Many military and especially civilians die in the result of the war. War leads to long-term physical and psychological consequences and causes huge damage‚ often irreversible‚ to the environment. The Civil War had a critical period in American history. It came at a time when medicine in the United States was behind Europe of very few advancements in terms of medical equipment‚ medicine‚ the treatment
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about because of it. Afraid of the collapse of their way of life secession from the Union was in order with the creation of the Missouri compromise. If slavery were to be illegal‚ the results could be devastating. What would become of the slaves? How will they
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The Civil War started April 12‚ 1861 and ended May 9‚ 1865. This war was fought because people in the North wanted to end slavery whereas‚ people in the deep south wanted slavery to continue. On January 1‚ 1863‚ President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation‚ this declared that “all persons held as slaves are‚ and henceforward shall be free.” Jefferson Davis “was the president of the confederate states of America.” He wanted slavery to continue in the confederate states of America
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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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the south by issuing the Emancipation Proclamation and was the president during the bloodiest war in history‚ the Civil War. Through a rough childhood of poverty and his mother passing away at the age of nine‚ he was able to become a lawyer through self education and eventually become part of the Illinois Legislature. In January of 1863 President Lincoln issued a war measure during the American Civil War to proclaim the freedom of slaves within 10 rebellious states. When the proclamation was issued
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The American Civil War Today‚ we think about America in one simple way‚ free. What most people don’t think about is‚ the hard-working‚ sweat-wiping soldiers that went through many obstacles making America free. The Civil War was one of the bloodiest wars that went on in America and it lasted for four years from‚ 1861 to 1865. “The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the” Union and the Confederate States of America. “ When Abraham Lincoln won” the presidency in 1860
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