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    History Test II There were many long-term causes and short term causes that aided and pushed forward the impending Civil War. The short term causes‚ however‚ were the most effective because they happened quickly and completely divided the nation in half. The causes were not only rapid and influential‚ but they were also all the consequences of the prior‚ creating an exponential rampage of divergence which led the country straight to Civil War. These short term causes were (in order of first to following):

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    The Civil War‚ and its aftermath‚ brought changes that are most significant in how the United States is today. The war was the cruelest and bloodiest war between the Northern and Southern States of America‚ which was the Civil War. It wasn’t just mainly on slaves‚ but the economics of cash crops and politics between parties. Only because technology was advancing not just in agriculture‚ but because weaponry was advancing in rifles quicker. The election of 1860 will provide what were the causes before

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    * Causes of the Civil War Long Term Causes * Social‚ Cultural Divide between North and South * Economic Divide between North and South * Political Divide between North and South: Collapse of Political System: Inability to Compromise * Slavery * Causes of the Civil War: Long Term Causes (from Colonial Times) * 1. Social and Cultural Divide between North and South * North: more urbanized‚ more diverse‚ more developed‚ more advanced infrastructure / transportation

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    "I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality..” The civil war was a four year long battle between the Confederate States of America and the Union. The Union included the states of New York‚ Maine‚ California‚ New Hampshire‚ Vermont‚ Massachusetts‚ Connecticut‚ Rhode Island‚ Pennsylvania‚ New Jersey‚ Ohio‚ Indiana‚ Illinois‚ Kansas‚ Michigan‚ Wisconsin‚ Minnesota

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    what caused the English Civil war due to the bias historical interpretation possesses. Many former historians have proposed that it was long term causes that eventually deepened to cause uncontrollable conflict and division within England‚ such as religious and socioeconomic factors. Yet contemporary historians such Revisionists focus on short term factors‚ emphasising that it was the absolutist rule of King Charles who caused social and political breakdown escalating to war. Additionally‚ post- revisionists

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    There was no particular cause for the rash of the First World War. The causes are much more complex than those of the Second World War and include short‚ intermediate and long term factors that all ended to cause the July Days in 1914. These factors include militarism‚ nationalism‚ imperialism‚ the alliance system‚ and industrialization as the long term causes. The intermediate causes included the crises in the Balkans and the short-term trigger for the war was the assassination of the Archduke Franz

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    World War I is one of the most remembered wars in the history. There are many short and long-term causes that lead up to the war. Most important causes that contributed are the Bosnian Crisis‚ Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand‚ and the secret alliances. First critical cause that contributed to the war is the Bosnian Crisis in 1908. There was tension between A-H and Russia as the Balkans was important to both of them. Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina and an agitated Serbia looked

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    Long and Short Term Causes of World War 1 – Essay The quote embodied within the name Woodrow Wilson (U.S. President 1913-21) is that World War 1 (WW1 - 1914-1918) was ‘the war to end all war’. Indeed in its time‚ WW1 seemed as the war of the century. As a war felt throughout Europe and with the intervention of other non-European countries‚ it had various causes. These sparks that let off up to the start of the war are nationalism‚ imperialism‚ militarism‚ the alliances at the time and the murder

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    The causes of the American Civil War The American Civil War is one of the most significant and controversial periods in American history. The Civil War was caused by mounting conflicting pressures‚ principles‚ and prejudices‚ fueled by differences and pride‚ and set into motion by unlikely set of political events. The war divided the country between the North (Union) and South (Confederate). The war lasted five years and by 1865 the Confederate forces were truly beaten. Out of this horrendous

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    The American Civil War. The most devastating war in the history of America‚ fought for a long and brutal four years from April 1861 to May 1856. The Union faced secessionists in eleven Southern states which grouped themselves as the Confederate States of America. The most tragic and heartbreaking fact of this war was the terrifying number of casualties which amounted to about 1.1 million in total. Underlying causes of this bloody conflict trace back to contrasts in the very fundamental routines of

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