Civil war From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search For other uses‚ see civil war (disambiguation). See list of civil wars for individual examples. A civil war is a war in which parties within the same culture‚ society or nationality fight for political power or control of an area. Some civil wars are also categorized as revolutions when major societal restructuring is a possible outcome of the conflict. An insurgency‚ whether successful or not‚ is likely to be classified
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States without a Civil War. We would be a much greater and stronger nation. I believe that the South didn’t have the right to fight for their way of life. Due to their attitude on slavery‚ they created a war that was dreadful. In the war‚ was the bloodiest day in US history‚ and the entire war caused 650‚000 deaths. I believe this due to the cost of the Civil War‚ the unjustness of slavery‚ and the way that the South never compromised. The first reason of why I think that the South didn’t have the
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This marking period is nearly over and the topics I learned were describing the condition of the Southern United States in the aftermath of the US Civil War‚ comparing the life of slaves before and after the civil war‚ and analyzing the differences in reconstruction plans between Presidents Lincoln and Johnson. For instance‚ the term reconstruction means to improve and/or recreate something better. The term implies that there has been an era in America that needed to improve. An example would be
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The deadliest war in American history is known as the American Civil War killing nearly 620‚000 soldiers and a mass amount of civilians. The War Between the States was fought between Southern slave states and the United States federal government. formed a group called the Confederacy‚ which went against the beliefs of the Union. America and Abraham Lincoln sought different views on slavery. Lincoln believed that all slaves should be emancipated and advocated the restoration of the Union. The
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because He gives a more detail discussion on the black experience during the reconstruction and on antebellum American slavery prior to the Civil War. McPherson’s writing is more up to date (2001) than Elkins. Elkins seem to rely solely on critical commentary from other authors when discussing slavery. His basis is on the growing interest in black culture‚ which had some significant contribution to work published on slavery in the 1970s. Elkin’s was not as up to date as McPherson with his latest edition
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Compromises played a big role in delaying the civil war. It was an attempt to slow the spread of slavery to the states up north and also to the territories in the west. It kept the nation united by trying to give everyone something they wanted‚ in order to keep them all happy. In 1850 there was an equal amount of the free states and the slave states. The territories and states did not want the government to control whether or not they were a slave state or a free state. They wanted to base the decision
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current government or power. Slide 5.) As with the rest of the Arab Spring‚ the protests spread to Syria. This would eventually lead to the Syrian Civil War. Slide 6.) On the 15th of March 2011‚ protesters took to the streets in the cities of Daraa and Homs. Over seventy thousand people participated in the protests. Slide 7.) In Syria‚ the people had slightly different goals from their Arab neighbors. The goal of the protests in Syria was to demand the release of political prisoners‚ an end to
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The Civil War was all the Northern States’ fault. The “issue” of slavery should not have bothered them in the first place. If someone had a problem with slavery the solution was simple: don’t own slaves. Instead‚ they tried meddling with slavery which lead to the Southern States’ secession and eventually‚ the Civil War. In my opinion‚ I think it all began with these new territories acquired from the Mexican-American war. The Northern States refused to allow slavery to enter this new land. Southern
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What do you think was the cause of the Civil War? The main cause is not slavery‚ but SLAVERY is the main source of the causes! The Civil War Started 1861 1865‚ very bloody‚ deadly‚ 160 thousand people died War between the Confederacy and the Federal Government Confederacy: the southern states (not all)‚ based on slavery --- separation Federal Government: no separation allowed (Lincoln)‚ keep unity! Causes linked with slavery Why South want to separate from North? Culture
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northern society in the decades leading up to the Civil War? Before the war there were great changes that occurred in the United States. The North was rapidly industrializing that created a separation between the North and the agricultural South. Both the North and South did have some similarities‚ but the differences between the North and South gradually lead to the Civil War. There were many similarities between The North and South. The North and South did have a similar political system of states
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