American Civil War The American Civil War started in April 12‚ 1861. During this time artillery pieces were rapidly developed from smooth bores to bores with rifling. Rifling was first invented in the late 1850s The United States Army had started experimenting and implementing bore rifling at the start of the American Civil War. It was believed that two-thirds of the confederate armies light howitzers where taken from the union forces. Artillery was rapidly shifting its capabilities of being able
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Even if the Civil War is most commonly remembered as a war to end slavery in the South‚ many other ethnicities were afflicted by the Civil War and more specifically Native Americans. Native Americans played a very important role in the Civil War and could be found fighting with both the Union and Confederate armies. In fact‚ two of the most famous Native Americans that were fighting in the Civil war were Stand Watie and Ely S. Parker‚ and there stories are highlighting the problems and triumphs that
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The American Revolution was fought for the grand causes of national rights‚ liberty‚ and economic control and resulted in freedom and unlimited trade. Like many revolutions‚ the Revolutionary War was an example of the outbreak of violence‚ which most often responds to heightened repression or extraordinary demands from the government against their people. The Revolutionary War was the first anti-colonial‚ democratic revolution in history. Americans insisted on representation‚ and‚ when the British
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The Civil War had an effect on us. The Civil War was one of the most tragic wars in American history. More Americans died in this war then in all other wars combined. In this war we did not fight against other people‚ we fought brother against brother and the nation was torn apart. There are many reasons why this war took pace. Fist the nation was come together and then the southern states were not allowed to secede. Then the South was placed under military rule and divided into military districts
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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. Southern states formed a group called the Confederacy‚ which went against the beliefs of the Union. Jefferson Davis of the Confederate States of America and Abraham Lincoln sought different views on slavery. Lincoln believed that all slaves should be
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The Spanish American War On April 25‚ 1898‚ the United States became concerned in a war with Spain and began an eight-month war amid the United States and Spain called the Spanish-American War. This action was motivated by Spain’s attack on the Battleship Maine in Havana port on February 15‚ 1898. The United States acted based on the Monroe Doctrine and consideration for the Cuban’s fight for liberty. The Monroe Doctrine was written in 1823‚ and declared that: The Americas were not destined
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The 54th Massachusetts‚ the first African American regiment in the Civil War‚ set standards for other similar regiments to come. This did not meet elation‚ however. The white soldiers at this time did not like the idea. They thought these men were uncivilized‚ uneducated boys with a gun who did not know the basics of combat. Although the 54th Massachusetts met resentment and disbelief at the beginning of their operations‚ the attitudes of the white men changed‚ and changed drastically. The 54th
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The American Civil War was the first modern war compared to the Napoleonic wars because Union and Confederate armies waged a total war that encompassed mass politics and advanced technologies. “The Civil War combined the mass politics and passions of the Wars of the French Revolution with the technology‚ productive capacity‚ and managerial style of the emerging Industrial Revolution.” The Civil War was not only an example of a modern war but one of the earliest examples of total war. The Union
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British were doing to American men working on the ships carrying agricultural products to Great Britain from the southern parts of the United States.In fact‚ the cause of the War of 1812 was a cause of the American Civil War. It lead to a poor relationship ship between the British and the United States‚ and it hurt the southern economy. It snowball effected into the American Civil War. First‚ the cause of the War of 1812 was important to causing the American Civil War because the British thought
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Was the American civil war inevitable? The civil war was inevitable‚ only however‚ after one key event; the cotton gin made the civil war inevitable. The invention of the cotton gin in 1793 was the key element which enabled the south to have sufficient vested interest in their traditional lifestyle in order to feel the need to defend it at all costs even from their Northern countrymen. The core argument of this essay centres around the evidence which clearly defines their being in existence two
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