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    The Civil War

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    The American Civil War lasted from 1861-1865‚ and is known as one of the most crucial events in the history of American. In those four years‚ more than half a million soldiers from both the Confederate and Union side were either wounded or died trying to fight for what they believed in. A nation was divided and mass social and economical changes occurred throughout the entire region. This fight over slavery and State rights would pit man against man and create a greater debt within the United States

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    Civil War(s) A. The First (1642-46) and Second Civil War (1648-49) We can notice that people talk about English Civil WarS in the plural. It is due to the fact that the war was composed of several war periods separated by relative peace ones. Although these wars had globally the same causes‚ they did not involve every time the same belligerents and the purposes could change‚ so did the endings‚ one of which would be unexpected. Causes of Civil Wars: Petition of Rights (February 1628): Parliament

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    Katelin Foster 9/30/12 Period 5 US History The Civil War The Civil War was a fight between the Southern states and the Northern states. It began in 1861 and ended in 1865. The northerners referred to this war as the war to preserve the Union because that became the main goal of the Civil War. Slavery was one of the causes of the war‚ but in the end Lincoln’s goal became preserving the union. When Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin in 1783‚ cotton then became very profitable. Many farmers

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    Gregory Robinson Jr World Studies Civil War Essay 2/9/13 In the antebellum period there were many things that we could say were the main causes of the war but the tree that I say that caused the war would be when the Mexican war ended‚ the Fugitive Slave Act‚ John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry‚ and one of the most important ones was the election of Abraham Lincoln. With the end of the Mexican War‚ America was given western territories. This caused a problem as these new territories

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    THE CIVIL WAR:WHY DID TEXANS FIGHT? THE CIVIL WAR WAS A SAD TIME FOR TEXANS AND AMERICANS‚ AS IT DIVIDED THE COUNTRY INTO TWO OPPOSING SIDES.BETWEEN 1861 AND 1865‚ 75‚000 TEXANS WENT TO WAR.WHAT WERE THE REASONS TEXAS FOUGHT FOR THE SOUTH IN THE CIVIL WAR.TEXANS WENT TO WAR STATES’ RIGHTS‚TO DEFEND THE STATE THEY LOVE AND TO PERSERVE SLAVERY. ONE REASON TEXANS FOUGHT FOR THE SOUTH IN THE CIVIL WAR WAS FOR STATES’ RIGHTS.THE TEXAS STATE GASETTE EDITORAIL‚ IT SUPPORTS THE RIGHT OF SECESSION

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    The Road to the Civil War

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    Ninan 12/5/2005 U.S. History Per. 4 The Road to the Civil War Until 1861 compromises helped the United States of America to avoid civil war. The Compromise of 1850 led a series of events set out to prevent war. The compromise of 1850 consisted of negotiations Henry Clay made which included issues on: slavery‚ land‚ and money. Also there were events that helped lead to war such as the Kansas-Nebraska Act. This included concerns with: the idea of popular sovereignty‚ repeal of

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    believe that Reconstruction did not successfully solve the problems of slavery and civil war because the first amendment was violated for African Americans and they were also not allowed to intermarry. In section 2 of Black Codes it states‚” Any freeman‚ free negro...seditious speeches (speaking against government)...may be imprisoned.” This shows that African Americans were not allowed the freedom of speech stated in the first amendment. This proves that the reconstruction did not solve the problems

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    The Civil War was a long‚ costly war that changed America forever. Reconstruction was an attempt to mend America back together after it had been divided in half between people who wanted equality for all and people who did not want to give up their way of life. The Fourteenth Amendment was ratified during Reconstruction‚ and it was a very defining moment since this was one of the main goals the Civil War aimed to achieve. This amendment guaranteed that anyone born in the United States is a citizen

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    differently depending on how they looked or what they believed well that was the normal back when there was no freedom and even less equality when our nation began a battle for both those to be effective on every man and women born into this nation. The Civil War was a time that changed the views of a lot of Americans and how they saw freedom and equality. Back in the year 1861 on the 12th of April a great war began between the states. They called it the Civil War. This War lasted a long gruesome 4

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    The Civil War was a brutal war between the North and South of America over the issue of America of slavery‚ which was spurred on by the secession of the southern states from the Union . The North fighting for freedom and preventing the South from seceding the country. while the South was fighting to keep slave labor. After the Union won the war‚ that’s when America started to change‚ I’m going to explain how the Civil War prized America as the land of opportunity‚ made America more advanced in technology

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