The Civil war began in 1861. It was a war fought between the South and the North. The south was known as the Confederate and the North as the Union. The cause of the war was‚ because the south and the north had different views on slavery and state rights. The war ended with The South’s surrender. The Union had several advantages over the South which led to their win in 1865. The first advantage the Union had over the Confederate was numbers. “The Federals were very inferior in numbers”
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cotton farming‚ while the North’s economy was based on manufacturing. Because the South did not manufacture goods‚ they were forced to purchase products from the North to‚ thus adding to the North’s economy. Then‚ with the South’s money the North would purchase cotton from the southern states. Also‚ in the South‚ there were hardly any job opportunities for whites since slaves were used on the fields‚ but unlike the North‚ where job opportunities were great and mainly were abundant in factories for the
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the Indians in the late 1700s‚ as well as the Confederate troops from the Civil War. The Union was victorious in this war for freedom‚ and to this day‚ the north is more the heart of the country’s economy. Weapons have been around from the Neanderthals of the post-ice age‚ to the Taliban in Afghanistan. Rocks became knives‚ sticks became spears‚ and bayonets became AK-47’s. The technology from the French and Indian War was revolutionized and manufactured by the newly opened weaponry companies
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Communism: The Effects on North Korea “North Korea is one of the most secretive countries on earth. It’s regarded as an intelligence black hole” (“Inside North Korea”). North Korea‚ a communist dictatorship‚ is known to be very secretive‚ but also is one of the cruelest countries on earth to its people. “Communism is a political‚ social‚ and economic system in which the government is based on a collective society with land‚ property‚ and economic activities controlled by the state” (Lansford 9)
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equality‚ and more political equality. Some protesters goals also extended to the removal of the current government or power. Slide 5.) As with the rest of the Arab Spring‚ the protests spread to Syria. This would eventually lead to the Syrian Civil War. Slide 6.) On the 15th of March 2011‚ protesters took to the streets in the cities of Daraa and Homs. Over seventy thousand people participated in the protests. Slide 7.) In Syria‚ the people had slightly different goals from their Arab neighbors
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plagued with slavery‚ racism‚ political conflict‚ economic strife‚ and conflicting presidential preferences had come to its breaking point. While the states in the southern region of the United States had adopted the idea of slave labor‚ those in the north had not. These states relied on industrialization. Deriving from the initial conflict of slavery‚ many problems arose. The southern states were predominantly Democratic. The northern states‚ however‚ were exclusively members of the Republican party
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Compromise helped delay the Civil War by maintaining the balance of both slave and free states‚ discontinuing the slave trade in Washington D.C. and returning slaves to their original owners with the Fugitive Slave Act‚ The Missouri Compromise of 1820 maintained the balance of slave and free states for 30 years. This kept the North and south satisfied. Missouri was added as a slave state and to sustain the equality between both sides‚ Maine was carved out of Massachusetts and added as a free
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American Civil War American Civil War‚ was a four-year war (1861–65) between the federal government of the United States and 11 Southern states that asserted their right to secede from the Union. The secession of the Southern states in 1860–61 and the ensuing outbreak of armed hostilities were the culmination of decades of growing sectional friction over the related issues of slavery‚ trade and tariffs‚ and the doctrine of states’ rights. This friction arose out of fundamental
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The North and the South The North and South had similarities and differences in the 1800’s‚ but can the differences drive them to a civil war? Women were mad about having so little rights‚ slavery was being questioned‚ and the political parties couldn’t seem to agree. Women in the United States had little rights‚ but women in the North had more‚ but not where it really counted. In the North‚ women had ownership of their wages and property (Holt‚ pg. 427). New York demonstrated giving women more rights
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There were many causes of the Civil War. The people of the south were angry with the election and that they were going to lose their way of life. The south was afraid of losing money and they didn’t think the slaves were humans. The south decided to leave the union and that caused a lot of hate. It was considered a treasonous act to leave the Union. It started with the election of Honest Abe. The South did not want him to be elected. The south wanted Breckinridge to become elected because he had
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