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    Prior to the Civil War‚ General Sherman made an accurate prediction on the outcomes of Civil War. He illustrated although both sides will suffer‚ the south will face eventual defeat and atone for their crime against humanity. First of all‚ General Sherman condemned South for starting the war so naively‚ not realizing the brutality of war.“You people of the South don’t know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood‚ and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly‚ madness‚ a

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    The political nature of slaves in the Antebellum South‚ and during the Civil War was something that was consistently argued‚ even at points until the modern day period. Slaves played the major role in their own emancipation and pushed the Union to move towards the notion of total emancipation. Because of slaves’ deliberate‚ knowledgeable‚ acts of resistance and rebellion‚ they were central to the outcome of the war. Often believed to be apolitical‚ or at the very least‚ infantilized‚ by some white

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    caused the Revolutionary war. The colonist[s] had grown weary of the problems with the king. Since coming to Jamestown in 1607‚ the colonists were just another part of the empire of Great Britain. As the colonies grew in size‚ they became more self reliant. England did not notice that the colonies were depending less and less on their mother country to supply their needs. King George III had other troubles on his mind. With mounting debt from the Seven Year war hanging over his head‚ the

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    The Influence of the Revolution Speeches The Revolution War began April 19th‚ 1775 and ended September 3rd‚ 1783. A very important key to the war that kept people inspired and convinced people to fight were the speeches. The speeches that were told used logic and appealed to emotion to persuade people into fighting the British. They try to make people find the truth of the British and how unfairly they have been treated. The speeches also brings God into the speech to further convince people

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    American Civil War For the four years between 1861 and 1865 American fought the civil war. Meaning our own war. The North against the South. The free States against the slave states. The war had to solved two questions left unresolved by the revolution. The first being‚ Could the United States be a dissolvable confederation of sovereign states? Or‚ could the United States be an indivisible nation with a sovereign national government? The Second question would be‚ whether this nation which had

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    Civil War The reason of the Civil War starting is because when Abraham Lincoln became the president it cause about seven Southern countries to secede from the union and they formed a thing called “Confederate States”. So after that there was many other reasons of the why the Civil War happened but some of the reasons are the idea of slavery‚ tariffs‚ trading and states rights. So‚ one of the reason of the civil war is the Missouri Compromise and it was extending to the California border and they

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    How did the Vietnamese society affected after the war with American had ended in 1975? INTRODUCTION In Vietnam history‚ the country has been mixed with many wars but the one that has been recognize the most is probably the war against American. Many others countries paid attentions to the situation in Vietnam during the war. Because of advanced media‚ it allows television to broadcast war images internationally. As a consequence‚ the war in Vietnam became the first war that was being watch

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    An Analysis of 4.7 “African Americans Petition for Freedom” On January 13‚ 1777 African Americans petitioned for their freedom. This petition was presented to the Honorable Council and the House of Representatives of Massachusetts. The slaves petitioned that they deserved natural rights‚ on the basis of being human. This petition approached the Honorable Council and the House of Representatives by attempting to achieve freedom through a sympathetic style of persuasion. This petition was part

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    between America in 1861. When several of the Southern states broke away from the Union the Civil War was starting to fuel. From there one of the bloodiest wars in American history took place when the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter‚ the Federal military base in South Carolina. Through all of the battles and deaths‚ one of the greater aspects of the war was the courage and involvement of African-American soldiers and sailors of the Union army. In 1861‚ the United States Navy needed an astounding

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    One of the most important parts of America’s timeline was the American Civil war. In the American Civil war‚ two sides were fighting over the same item; slavery. As we all know‚ the winners of this war were the Northern states. After winning‚ they punished the southern states. When the South succeeded‚ they created their own currency‚ they made a flag‚ and they created an entirely new government. When they lost the war‚ their money was burned because it had no value‚ the government was disbanded

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