Why the North Won the American Civil War Union officer William Tecumseh Sherman observed to a Southern friend that‚ "In all history‚ no nation of mere agriculturists ever made successful war against a nation of mechanics. . . .You are bound to fail." While Sherman ’s statement proved to be correct‚ its flaw is in its assumption of a decided victory for the North and failure to account for the long years of difficult fighting it took the Union to secure victory. Unquestionably‚ the war was won
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The American civil war was a necessary event and it determined the kind of country that we have today. The civil war was a result of the southern states seceding and both sides fighting in effort to enforce their view of slavery. If the civil war wouldn’t have happened‚ then the southern states would have been their own country and so would the union. In theory this works‚ but both the north and the south were dependent on each other for economic reasons. Working together‚ the north and the south
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If the south won the Civil War The civil war started when the confederates bombarded Union Soldiers at Fort Sumter‚ South Carolina on April 12‚ 1861. The civil war ended in spring 1865. Robert E. Lee surrendered the last confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9‚ 1965. In addition the last battle was fought at Palmito Ranch‚ which is located in Texas on May 13‚ 1865. The civil was fought in several places from Pennsylvania to Texas‚ from Mexico to Florida coast‚ but
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1. The Civil War will claim 600‚000 American lives. According to the reading that is the equivalent of how many Trade Tower attacks? The death toll of the Civil War is equivalent to a Trade Tower disaster occurring every Tuesday for four years. 2. Why would the framers of the Constitution not even mention the word ’slavery’ in the Constitution? The framers of the Constitution didn’t mention the word ‘slavery’ because they feared that the Southern states would not then join the new government
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Bleeding Kansas is also described as a period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraska Act reversed the Missouri Compromise’s use of latitude as the line between slave and free territory and instead‚ using the principle of popular sovereignty‚ announced that the residents would determine whether the area became a free state or slave state. Proslavery and free-state settlers flowed into Kansas to try to pressure the opinion. Violence soon appeared as both
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Tragedy. Violence. Disagreements. The Civil War was the worst war that America had to face and it had all those things. The Civil War is the worst war in America ever because it was Americans vs. Americans. Families were split apart and friendships were ended. Some historians believe that the Civil War was inevitable. However‚ through further evaluation‚ the Civil War was caused by extremism from both sides and compromise was not an option for either side. The Civil War started because their were too many
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Despite the North having more production and population‚ the South could have won the Civil War with a few adjustments. Notice how the South’s largest production is cotton‚ compared to the North. The North had a balance of different types of production‚ which enabled the soldiers to be easily equipped with materials and accumulate wealth. One of the major reasons why the South lost was that it spent more on cotton production instead of increasing the other types of production. If it spent more on
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Throughout the Civil War African Americans suffered greatly because of discrimination and because of their attempted escape from slavery. Thousands of the free blacks in the Union volunteered to serve in the Union army and to fight against the Confederacy. Although they risked their lives‚ they were not treated very well. At the start of the war‚ colored volunteers were forbidden to enter the army. Congress‚ however‚ changed that in 1862‚ a year into the Civil War. Even though they were allowed in
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The Civil War was fought between the Northern and Southern states of of America. Was the Civil War inevitable? It was a conflict bound to happen due to the differences between the North and South’s views on slavery‚ society‚ and politics. The South wanted their independence and freedom from the North‚ while the North wanted unity. The Northern states‚ also known as the Union‚ had a very strong economy based on agriculture‚ industry‚ and free labor. They were independent and did not have to rely
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The American Civil War The American Civil War was one of the most significant and controversial periods in American history‚ in where Americans killed each other (about 600‚000 men died) and still‚ some of the past arguments on state’s rights are still argued today. The Civil War was a matter of south versus north‚ confederacy (Southern States) versus The Union (Northern States). Northern states claimed that if the Southern slaves were property‚ then they should not be counted toward voting representation
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