When you think of the Civil War‚ what do you think of? Unionists‚ Confederates‚ slave owners? Do you think of African Americans? Probably not. Just like the Revolutionary War‚ African Americans played an immense role in the entire war‚ yet many people don’t recognize them for that accomplishment. They were nurses‚ spies‚ cooks‚ soldiers‚ laborers‚ and heroes. African Americans were faced with mass racial prejudice‚ even from the abolitionist north‚ yet they chose to fight in order to abolish slavery
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government molds our future and society. The American Civil War did just that by causing advances in our society whether or not they were wanted. Some of the advances are the creation of the Emancipation Proclamation and 13th amendment. Which even when they were created they were not accepted by the society that is our nation. Many people were still looking for and finding loopholes on how to keep their slaves as ¨free¨ slaves. Society before the civil war was already rough and divided if it wasn’t
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In the early 1860s America faced the bloodiest war in its history‚ known as the American Civil War. The country was broken up by a drastic sectional divide between the North and South‚ which would eventually end in greater conflict than any yet seen on American soil. While many factors were important contributions to the cause of the war‚ there is ongoing dispute on what the most significant cause was. The North and South had many conflicting fundamental ideas such as Northern industrialism versus
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The Civil War affected the lives of many American women. Many women would disguise themselves as men so that they could go and join the fight. Other women would serve as spies and nureses‚ and many more would take new roles at home when theier husbands‚ brothers‚ and fathers would go to war. Thousands of women who were enslaved began to transition into freedom to begin their new lives with the horrors of the war. American women as a whole improved their education standing‚ secured additional legal
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In what way the African Americans shaped the course and consequences of the Civil War? African Americans helped shape the civil war in many ways. In fact‚ they were basically the underlying cause for the war in the first place. African Americans were slaves and had been treated like property since they first arrived in America. Therefore‚ the possibility of freedom for these slaves caused a big uproar in the south. The issue of equal rights for African Americans‚ the country’s ignorance to African
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The American Civil War is probably the most horrific episode in American history. The two belligerents of the war were the Union army‚ comprised of the northern states‚ and the Confederate army‚ comprised of the southern slave states which had voted to secede from the Union. In essence‚ the North did not want the South to secede from the Union because the North relied on the South for agriculture. On the other hand‚ the South wanted to secede because they had grown tired of the federal government
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The Civil War would go down in history as a moral crusade‚ and in the efforts to free black slaves‚ many heroes would emerge. During 1861 to 1870‚ African Americans would heavily influence the outcome of the civil war‚ as well as what would happen after the war. African Americans played both active roles in the civil war and reform afterwards‚ but both roles were critical to the more modernized plans that would be created. One active member that positively affected the civil war was Frederick Douglass
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The American War in Vietnam and the American Revolutionary War had several similarities regarding military occupation by a distant or foreign government‚ political representation‚ coupled with similar geographic and demographic situations within the country. Both countries had seen years of military conflict and political turmoil preceding each of these conflicts. The English saw the Americas as a source of raw materials and commodities; 1 however‚ saw no reason to allow the colonist the same rights
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The American Civil War was the bloodiest war this country has ever seen. It followed numerous events that caused separation between the North and South‚ including the Mexican-American War‚ Missouri Compromise‚ and Kansas-Nebraska Act. As the country expanded west‚ debates arose over slavery in new states. Countless compromises acted as the stitches holding the two halves of the country together. Sadly‚ nothing could keep the two vastly different parts of the country from breaking apart. The Mexican-American
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specking more than 200 dialects. This group like the Maidu‚ Miwok and Yokuts‚ Chumash‚ Salinas and many more driven out of the Southwest by Spanish colonization. Despite this great diversity‚ they has similar lives‚ they organized themselves into small family based bands of hunters and did not practice much agriculture. In the middle of the 16th century the Spanish explores invaded the region and in 1769 a missionary named Junipero Serra established a mission at San Diego. Marking the beginning of a
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