ALLUSION PROJECT Civil War Part 1 A nation in four decades had been multiplied several times its territory‚ purchase of Louisiana to France‚ Florida to Spain‚ the annexation of Texas and the subsequent war with Mexico (1846-1848) ambient. The political states of north and south had been mounded by the interest of the second in their plantations and the conservation of slavery‚ while the firs inclined towards trade; shipping and financial interests on one side were the debtor farmers‚ and other
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On February 23‚ 1861‚ the voters of Texas overwhelmingly approved a referendum calling for secession from the United State of America. Just two months later‚ the Civil war began and Texas was engaged in a bloody battle of lifestyles and beliefs that cost both the North and the South dearly. There were many reasons Texas fought in the civil war. Texas fought in the Civil War because‚ they wanted to protect their state rights‚ their love for Texas‚ and to preserve slavery. These reasons were important
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The Southerners‚ however‚ advocated the free adoption of slavery by benefiting directly from this labor on their farms‚ profiting from the high prices of the sale of slaves. In his speech as president‚ Lincoln declared the illegality of secession. He said he would use the force to maintain control of federal estates in the Confederate states and concluded calling for the restoration of Union ties. The South ignored the request and attacked federal troops at Fort Sumter in Charleston‚ South
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Address Versus Jefferson’s Declaration Two of the most important‚ and‚ perhaps the two most important documents in American history are the Declaration of Independence and the Gettysburg Address. The Declaration of Independence‚ the document of secession written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776‚ called for the complete independence of the states from the British Empire. The Gettysburg Address was a document on the theory of union that stressed the need for one united country and expressed the importance
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privilege of the writ of habeas corpus‚ shall not be suspended unless when‚ in the cases of rebellion or invasion‚ the public safety may require it." What better crisis is there then a time of war‚ and because Lincoln never accepted the states’ secession‚ he viewed the war as an act of rebellion. By viewing the war as an act of rebellion‚ Lincoln was well within the right of the constitution to suspend the writ of habeas corpus. With the suspension of Habeas Corpus‚ Lincoln could "arrest‚ and detain
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civil war‚ it was not as significant as the election of 1860. The election was the most important event because it lead to the secession of South Carolina and also because of the drastic differences in ideology between the north and the south. The Dred Scott decision would lead to the ratification of the 14th amendment.* The election of 1860 directly lead to the secession of South Carolina from the Union.
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big play . The decision on whether a state should be free or not was too a fact of the expansion . Every reason you can thing of the war happening is second to slavery . The Fugitive Slave Act ‚ Emancipation Proclamation ‚ Dredd Scott Decision . Secession of states . The 13th‚ 14th ‚ and 15th amendments
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Yankee carpetbaggers were opportunists who came to the South to get rich in the aftermath of conquest through theft of money‚ land‚ property‚ etc. Their allies were the treasonous scalawags - Southerners who had always favored the Union‚ had opposed secession‚ and in some cases had even taken up arms against their countrymen during the Civil War. These traitors were now placed by military force into political power in the South. These forces - the Union army of occupation‚ the carpetbaggers‚ the scalawags
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Another one of the biggest factors that led to the War was the issue of slavery. The two divided sides (North and South) had fought over this issue for years. The debates and quarrels of slavery led to many states seceding from the union. The secessions led to another war that the North fought in to reserve the union. As well as the North fighting‚ the South had also fought to declare their independence under its own
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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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