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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On November 10th‚ 1898‚ Wilmington‚ North Carolina became the site of the only coup d’état in American history. The uprising of 1898 was complicated‚ with deep roots and lasting effects‚ yet this momentous event has gone largely ignored‚ relegated to an obscure corner of history where it is remembered only as a petty riot. It is rarely acknowledged as the incident that led to the overthrow of North Carolinian Reconstruction governments in favor of the Democratic assemblies that instituted the infamous
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Reconstruction after the American Civil War By: Alec Decker The period after the Civil War‚ 1865 - 1877‚ was called the Reconstruction period. Abraham Lincoln started planning for the reconstruction of the South during the Civil War while Union soldiers occupied huge areas of the South. He wanted to bring the Nation back together as quick as he can without many complications. In December 1863 he proposed one of his plans to his Reconstruction which required the States to prohibit slavery.
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its future was Reconstruction. Reconstruction was a time period in America involving many leaders‚ goals and accomplishments. By the end of the civil war‚ nobody knew what was to be done. With the assassination of President Lincoln in 1865‚ it was up to President Andrew Johnson to try to reunite former enemies. They had to solve one issue; African Americans still continued to serve white southerners on their plantations. Was the Reconstruction a success or a failure? The Reconstruction was more of a
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After a nation went to war against itself and the North won‚ there were many issues that needed to be resolved. The civil war was fought against the Confederacy of the Southern states and the Union‚ Northern states over the future of slavery. After the war was over‚ there was a rift in the lives of many freed slaves in the southern states that lead to many conflicts. During the same decade‚ many of the Western states were dealing with similar issues on how to deal with the Native Americans‚ as the
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Antebellum period‚ the North and South were divided into two sections. Antebellum Northerners were attempting to modernize the economy in the North while in the south the plantation complex was the economic form. The antebellum North and Antebellum South were more different due to the way they felt about slavery. The North and South differed greatly in how they wanted the newly admitted states to be during Westward expansion. The North opposed slavery‚ so after the Mexican-American War when Texas became
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There were many economic and political causes of the Civil War in the terms of conflict over economic policy and the expansion of slavery into the territories. Many documents‚ people‚ and events in history help to causes of the Civil War such as the Kansas-Nebraska Act‚ Missouri Compromise‚ Texas annexation‚ Wilmot Proviso‚ Compromise of 1850‚ Gadsden Purchase‚ the creation of the Republican Party‚ and the Dred Scott decision. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1854. The act
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Study Guide I. United States Civil War: causes‚ course‚ and effects a. Cotton Economy and Slavery i. Cotton is King ii. Conditions of enslavement 1. “peculiar institution” of slavery frowned upon for a long time iii. Abolitionists 2. Underground Railroad a. Network of secret routes and safe houses used in helping slaves escape to free states b. Harriet Tubman i. Also known as Moses
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Friends and Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the executive government of the United States being not far distant‚ and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust‚ it appears to me proper‚ especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice‚ that I should now apprise you of the resolution I have formed‚ to decline being considered among the number
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What Caused the Civil War? In April 1861‚ the United States of America went to war. They did not go to war with a foreign power‚ because of a border dispute‚ and they did not go to war with the native people because of their hunger for more land. No‚ this would be a war among themselves‚ north against south‚ brother against brother‚ and in some instances even father against son. In the four long and bloody years that this war lasted more than 600‚000 of these brothers‚ fathers‚ and sons would
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