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    kneeling slave. Lincoln standing stoic‚ seems to offer with his sympathetic hand‚ the gift of emancipation. The slave‚ squatting beneath him‚ seems thankful in his reverence. This image helps us to understand how the Civil War and the dissolution of slavery is viewed. Blacks were gifted their freedom from considerate whites. In history‚ the journey toward freedom by the valiant slave on his or her own accord is often overshadowed by the Yankee soldier or politician. The role of the slave in the road

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    in causing the Civil War. One of its biggest impacts on America was creating a division between the states. This dissolution between the states is largely due to varying opinions on the legality and morality of slavery. It was impossible for the nation’s founders to know all of the major issues their nation would face in the future‚ so the Constitution‚ therefore‚ does not address certain topics that would lead to great dispute later on in the country such as whether or not slaves should be considered

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    I. The Civil War Begins a. Confederates Fire on Fort Sumter i. Fort Sumter was a southern fort that remained in unions control ii. Lincoln declared her would neither reinforce Fort Sumter nor abandon it. 1. Next Jefferson Davis chose to attack Sumter which started the war a. Fort Sumter fell b. Virginia seceded b. Americans Expect a Short War iii. Union and confederate Strategies 2. The Union had

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    Cuffy was a man who was very powerful and he took his strengths and expanded on them when he led the Berbice Slave Rebellion of 1763. While being under the Dutch colonization‚ Cuffy successfully took control of over eight plantations during the eleven-month long revolution. Dutch Governor Van Hoogenheim found out and grew frantic‚ alerting all the Europeans in nearby plantations to flee because Cuffy threatened them and seized all their ammunition and any source of power they held. He knew this would

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    The Civil War was a devastating event that took place in America’s past. Many lives were taken during this tragic time. The Civil War started in 1861 when the Confederate states attacked Fort Sumter. The Confederate states included Texas‚ Arkansas‚ Louisiana‚ Mississippi‚ Alabama‚ Tennessee‚ Georgia‚ Florida‚ South Carolina‚ North Carolina‚ and Virginia. The Union states included Oregon‚ California‚ Nevada‚ Kansas‚ Iowa‚ Minnesota‚ Wisconsin‚ Illinois‚ Indiana‚ Michigan‚ Ohio‚ Pennsylvania‚ New

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    system of owning slaves” and slave define as “a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them”. That was the mindset of most white people in America during this time and era. This was roughly the 1800’s. The white men thought it was okay to own another human being as long as their skin color was different from theirs. You could buy or sell any slave you had. They were treated like property‚ instead of the human beings they were. Slavery caused the civil war because slavery

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    In the years leading up to the Civil War‚ the United States began to undergo significant changes‚ changes that would eventually lead to the secession of southern states‚ creation of the confederacy and the beginning of the Civil War. During these years‚ the nation was in the midst of a transformation from an underdeveloped nation of farmers and frontiersmen into an urbanized economic powerhouse. As the industrialized North and the agricultural South grew apart‚ acute differences in political‚ economic

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    controversial in the states. Due to the Fugitive Slave Act that forced citizens to assist in capture of runaway slave‚ idea of citizens deciding whether territories would be free or slave states - known as popular soveirgnty‚ as well as the varying interpretations of the constitution‚ especially on the subject of slavery‚ there was great discord and sectionalism in the United States. This ultimately had a major impact on Southern Succession and the start of the civil war. The nation began rapidly expanding

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    The American Civil War was a vital event in the history of the United States. The war was a result of a combination of political‚ social‚ and economic elements that led to the violent diversity throughout the country. Jason Phillips‚ the Eberly Family Professor of Civil War Studies at West Virginia University‚ and author of the 2018 book‚ Looming Civil War: How Nineteenth Century Americans Imagined the Future‚ explains that throughout the 1850s‚ a series of events increased sectionalism‚ emboldened

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    Historians have concluded‚ that the economic impact of the first World War caused the Great Depression in the1930s. Yet they disagree as to whether exogenous shocks or economic stagnation following the war lead to the depression. Peter Temin‚ Christina Romer and Michael Calamaris believe that a series of monetary shocks during the late 1920s‚ that had their origins during and after the great war‚ turned an economic downturn of 1929 into the depression of the 30s. Temin argues that the “collapse of

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