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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Brothers fighting brothers‚ a country imploding in itself‚ the world is an antithesis of what auspicious t it is today. A country separated by gender‚ race‚ religion‚ and class is that really a Union? The Civil War has begun‚ a fight not yet for the freedom of slaves but a fight to mold two sides of a coin into one. The oppressed brethren are reluctant to fight and why shouldn’t they be through all the injustices the Union has placed upon them? Regardless‚ Alfred M. Green delivers a speech in an
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price of tobacco the slave trade was dying‚ just as those in the North hoped it would. Then came a man‚ and an invention‚ which changed the course of history. In 1792‚ Eli Whitney visited the plantation of Catherine Greene‚ the wife of Revolutionary War general‚ Nathaniel Greene‚ near Savannah Georgia. He watched cotton being cleaned; a very long and time consuming process to do by hand. Watching the cotton being cleaned an idea came to Whitney. He decided he would build a machine that would clean
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The Second Persian Gulf War‚ or better known as the Iraq War is an ideal event to spark curiosity. There are two main factors that contributed to the Iraq War. They are the causes of the Iraq War‚ and the most dominant groups of people in Iraq‚ which are the Sunni and Shiite Arabs. Then there is the outcome and aftermath of the Iraq War. These two factors changed how society thinks about foreign wars. First and foremost‚ the Sunni and Shiite Arabs were the two factions that lifted the facade
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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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Friends and Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the executive government of the United States being not far distant‚ and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust‚ it appears to me proper‚ especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice‚ that I should now apprise you of the resolution I have formed‚ to decline being considered among the number
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States‚ with the Northerners being abolitionists and Southerners being pro-slavery‚ there were more events that eventually led to the start of a civil war. The annexation of Sumner and Lincoln’s election increased tensions between the North and South‚ which ultimately led to the American Civil War. The caning of Sumner was a big reason why the Civil War started.
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century In the beginning of the 19th century‚ sectionalism in the United States referred to the different political values‚ customs‚ and lifestyles of the North and South in the United States. The north believed in industrialization and trade whilst the south was based on agriculture and slavery. Northerners tried to abolish slavery whilst the south tried to expand the slave states to improve the agriculture industry. These differences contributed to the ever-increasing hostility between the two
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that it’s people desired to expand and grow their tiny nation. The New World held so many opportunities for the foreign people with its abundance of land. Though the prosperity of expansion was a major factor‚ moving into the unexplored land was a cause for most of the countries battles. But‚ the people’s craving for land was insatiable once they started to branch out. Land was power‚ and the more you had the better off you’d be in terms of foreign affairs and in the wellbeing of your nation economically
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