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    Slavery and the Civil War As slavery came to end at the end of the Civil War the South still had issues with letting it go. Slaves‚ at the time in 1865‚ were still treated like trash‚ abused‚ neglected‚ and disrespected by the whites that believed they still had their hands on them. The whites at that time rationalized their actions by saying their economy would falter. They wouldn’t have the hands to work crops therefor value of cotton‚ tobacco‚ rice‚ or any other crop would go down taking the economy

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    The Civil War and Its Ending of Slavery This paper is about the civil war and about how it ended slavery with the emancipation proclamation . I will also talk abou the physical loses of the war. The South‚ overwhelmingly agricultural‚ produced cash crops such ascotton‚ tobacco and sugarcane for export to the North or to Europe‚ but it depended on the North for manufactures and for the financial and commercial services essential to trade. Slaves were the largest single investment in the

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    The Events Leading Up to the Civil War Conflicts widened between the North and the South as two sides collided in every event before the Civil War. The North and the South were very different in many ways. They were known as two different countries because of their cultural and economic differences. The disagreements between the North and the South aggravated the separation that was soon to follow. When the North gained the control of the government‚ the South seceded. The North was industrialized

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    examining the Civil War‚ many causes of conflict are often overlooked by the obvious cause of slavery. While slavery was somewhat of a cause of the war‚ it definitely wasn’t a big reason and makes the key reasons of conflict seem very small and dismal. There were many more causes to the Civil War like some that will be mentioned in this essay. The Civil War was not fought solely to end slavery and free the slaves. First‚ slavery was more of a symbol then a reason of conflict in the Civil War. The South

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    Everyone knows about president Lincoln and the emancipation proclamation. How the north won the civil war and slavery was abolished. It is a nice thought. But it was not that easy. After the civil war slaves across the United States were granted their freedom. Being granted freedom and being free were two different things‚ many slaves would learn this the hard way. Freedmen and women were now on their own and had to face many obstacles. The biggest being racism. This battle for equality would last

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    The Civil War in 1861 was the outcome of built up tension due to segregation in the Northern and Southern regions of the United States. From 1789 to 1860‚ the conflict of slavery gained attention of whether or not the act was ethical. Although many argue the Civil War was caused by infringement on the states’ rights‚ it was mainly because of incongruence in the actions of the Legislative‚ Judicial‚ and Executive branches on slavery that led to the Civil War. Legislative Branch The Louisiana Purchase

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    Slavery was undoubtedly an equally awful experience for both male and female African Americans prior to the Civil War. Torn from their homeland and forced to work grueling hours under cruel slave owners for no pay‚ the era of the American slave trade was arguably on of the most shameful eras in American history. Much of the work one would be forced to do as a slave was reflective of one’s gender. Although there were certainly exceptions‚ male slaves were generally expected to work long hours in the

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    "Slavery was the Cause of the Civil War." Although the North and the South were part of the same Union they were very different in many ways. The Southern states believed in slavery while the northern states were against it. Eventually it would lead to the War Between the States or the Civil War. There other reasons that left to the Civil War as well but slavery was the main cause of the war. The South had always been slave states. They wanted them to include the new states as slave states so

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    president of the United State a civil war broke out which lasted a whole four years‚ reasons were many and one of which is for stopping the slavery which was legal in the 11 southern states South Carolina‚ North Carolina‚ Texas‚ Florida‚ Alabama‚ Georgia‚ Louisiana‚ Mississippi‚ Virgina‚ Tennessee and Arkansas‚ they made the Confederate Unites States of America or CSA. The states that did not break away were called the union or the north. The war was fought primarily as a war of liberation from the Union

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    what caused the Civil War‚ the first thing that pops into their head is slavery. This is what they teach us in elementary school. Every kid is taught about the North‚ the South‚ slavery‚ and Abraham Lincoln‚ but there was so much more to the Civil War than what was taught back then. First‚ slavery was not the only cause of the Civil War. There were many other issues besides slavery that had equal if not more influence on the start of the war. Two of these additional causes of the war‚ which began tensions

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