What caused the American Civil War? It is amazing that even today‚ nearly 150 years after the Civil War started‚ there is passionate debate regarding the "cause" of the Civil War. Consider this: It is a fact that when the armies for the North and South were first formed‚ only a small minority of the soldiers on either side would have declared that the reason they joined the army was to fight either "for" or "against" slavery. However‚ equally true is the statement: "Had there been no slavery‚ there
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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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The American Civil War and also known as the War Between the States was a war fought from 1861 up to 1865 between the Northern and Southern United States. The war has led to over 618‚000 casualties. There were several reasons to why the Civil War has occurred in the United States. Firstly‚ the Northern and the Southern have different economies. With the invention of Eli Whitney’s cotton gin in 1793‚ cotton became very profitable. This machine reduces the time taken to separate the seeds from the
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Was the Civil War Inevitable? The three main causes of the civil war‚ infringement on civil liberties‚ infringement on states’ rights‚ and the collapse of the two-party system made the conflict between North and South almost impossible to resolve. When Abraham Lincoln was elected into presidency‚ it was implied in his inauguration speech that he was one who would abide more by Northern interests. First North Carolina‚ then other Southerners responded by doing what they had the “right” to do
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The Civil War During both the civil war and civil war reconstruction time periods‚ there were many changes going on in the Union. The Emancipation Proclamation‚ as well as legislation such as the thirteenth‚ fourteenth and fifteenth amendments‚ was causing a new awakening of democracy; while the renouncing of secession by the South marked a definite triumph for Nationalism. As well‚ the government was involved in altercations of its own. During reconstruction‚ the legislative and executive
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SLAVERY The burning issue that led to the disruption of the union‚ however‚ was the debate over the future of slavery. That dispute led to secession‚ and secession brought about a war in which the Northern and Western states and territories fought to preserve the Union‚ and the South fought to establish Southern independence as a new confederation of states under its own constitution. In the late 18th century‚ the abolitionist movement began in the north and the country began to divide over the
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The Civil War The Civil War started in 1861 and lasted for four years until the south surrendered in 1865. The war was between the northern states and the southern states of the United States. Since the War there has been a lot of discussions among historians arguing about the cause of the war. Historians have yet to agree if the cause was social‚ political‚ economical or a mix of them. Most of those who believe it was because of economic reasons believe that it was because of The Sectional
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The revived Ku Klux Klan was merely the most obvious and sinister symptom of general and widespread discrimination. The new Ku Klux Klan opposed many more groups than the blacks opposed by the first Ku Klux Klan. The first Ku Klux Klan group only discriminated against blacks and they weren’t known as the most discriminating group unlike the revived Ku Klux Klan. The revived group of the Ku Klux Klan not only discriminated African Americans‚ but Immigrants‚ Catholics‚ and Jews as well. Even though
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In my opinion‚ the containment was a success. Containment meant to fight a number of small wars and staying on guard against Soviet moves‚ and continuing the arms race which eventually became too costly for the Soviets and bankrupted them. When a victorious conclusion to the war with Germany seemed inevitable‚ Roosevelt‚ Stalin‚ and Churchill met at the Yalta Conference in February 1945. They made strategic plans to defeat Germany and began discussing crucial postwar issues. Stalin agreed that the
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MLK was important to Civil Rights because he helped African Americans be known as people‚ not as things. Martin Luther King Jr. was famous for his “I Have a Dream” speech because it inspired black people to stand up for themselves. He said this because black people were being treated wrong and he did not respect that and the reason for that was because he was black himself. Another example is when MLK said a significant sentence that said “There is nothing greater in all the world than freedom.”
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