Westward Expansion and Sectionalism (1840-1861) At the end of the Mexican War during Polk’s term as president‚ many new lands west of Texas were yielded to the United States‚ and the debate over the westward expansion of slavery was rekindled. Southern politicians and slave owners demanded that slavery be allowed in the West because they feared that a closed door would spell doom for their economy and way of life. Whig Northerners‚ however‚ believed that slavery should be banned from the new territories
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Civil war From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search For other uses‚ see civil war (disambiguation). See list of civil wars for individual examples. A civil war is a war in which parties within the same culture‚ society or nationality fight for political power or control of an area. Some civil wars are also categorized as revolutions when major societal restructuring is a possible outcome of the conflict. An insurgency‚ whether successful or not‚ is likely to be classified
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The costs of the Civil War included over 630‚000 American lives lost‚ destruction and damage to lands and cities in the South‚ and total economic costs of the war estimated to be $6‚190‚000‚000. By the end of the war‚ the South faced reconstruction both economically and culturally. A majority of Southern towns were destroyed and had hardly enough money to rebuild. The Civil War led to a boom in manufacturing‚ developments in communication‚ increase in railroad use and eventually an Industrial Revolution
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Causes of the Civil War John Brown’s Raid vs. Industrial Revolution John Brown’s Raid was a more influential cause to the civil war than the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution caused incompability between the North and the South. The North relied on wage laborers with the new machine age economy while the South relied heavily on slaves. So‚ the North did not need slaves for their economy and fought to free the slaves. The South fought
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There were many causes for the separation of the union. Many people argue that the Constitution‚ which was a symbol of the national unity‚ contributed to its division. This is true in some ways‚ but it did not happen immediately. Many events‚ such as the passing of the Fugitive Slave and Kentucky-Nebraska Acts‚ gradually built up the tension between North and South‚ until the union collapsed. Even though the Compromise of 1850 was meant to solve the crisis‚ it only created more tension between the
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published in both The Journal of the Civil War Era and Civil War History I have a far better understanding of the many different subfields that make up the historical study of the Civil War. My response to the question which prompted this essay would be that I consider myself to be a military Civil War historian. However‚ I am not a military historian in the traditional sense. I am interested in studying the military strategies used by the great military minds of the Civil War‚ but that is not all I am interested
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Slaves‚ and Free Blacks in the Civil War David H Mann HIS/ 155 April 29‚ 2017 Staci Anson There were many different affects for the women of the Civil War. There were different affects for the women of the Union soldiers and women of the Confederated soldiers. What were the differences and what were the similarities? Many women’s lives were dramatically affected during the war‚ whether they were from the south or from the north. Women on both sides fought in the war and sometimes even spied for the
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Spanish Civil War? (10) The Spanish Civil war was a very important event that happened in 1936 between the Republicans and the Nationalists‚led by General Francisco Franco. Although it did not make World War II inevitable‚ it increased the likelihood of a general war a great deal. The war had a tremendous impact on Spain itself‚ leaving much of the state’s economic and social infrastructure in ruins and leaving thousands dead. There were varies foreign interventions in the Spanish Civil War by different
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Of the 3‚211‚067 people involved in the Civil War‚ about 23‚000 of them were women paid to be nurses or spies. These numbers don’t even include the women who stayed back and were the support on the home front. Women such as Elizabeth Van Lew‚ Clara Barton‚ Elizabeth Blackwell and so many more are the kind of women that changed the events of this war. Without spies that gave crucial information like Elizabeth Van Lew‚ nurses who gave live saving care like Clara Barton and supporters that gave necessary
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Abraham Lincoln‚ means that the best way to win a war‚ is to ally with the enemy and then attack them. The tensions were high between the North and South and they were about to go to war. The Civil War was caused by societal tensions about slavery‚ and the results of tariffs and slavery on the economy. There were many things that caused the Civil War‚ and one of the causes of the Civil War was societal tensions over slavery. One reason the Civil War was caused by the societal tensions about slavery
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