The Civil War was all the Northern States’ fault. The “issue” of slavery should not have bothered them in the first place. If someone had a problem with slavery the solution was simple: don’t own slaves. Instead‚ they tried meddling with slavery which lead to the Southern States’ secession and eventually‚ the Civil War. In my opinion‚ I think it all began with these new territories acquired from the Mexican-American war. The Northern States refused to allow slavery to enter this new land. Southern
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Abolitionism is a familiar expression that defines the journey that ended slavery and segregation between whites and African Americans beginning as early as the 1820s. The Abolitionist where very vocal about their opinions and spoke openly on freedom and agreed “all men were created equal”. In response‚ slave owners contradicted these opinions and rebelled. With this conflict came the American Civil War. In result of there being so many abolitionist‚ the first American abolition society was founded
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The Union is often regarded as the stronger side in the American Civil War‚ with its larger population of 22 million in 1860 compared to the Confederacy’s 9 million‚ its strength in manufacturing of firearms‚ pig iron‚ railroad cars‚ its quantity of railroad lines‚ and its financial resources. (521) But the South had many advantages and proved to be a formidable opponent. In the beginning of the war‚ the armies of the North and South were of comparable size and the Confederacy had strong leadership
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Compromises played a big role in delaying the civil war. It was an attempt to slow the spread of slavery to the states up north and also to the territories in the west. It kept the nation united by trying to give everyone something they wanted‚ in order to keep them all happy. In 1850 there was an equal amount of the free states and the slave states. The territories and states did not want the government to control whether or not they were a slave state or a free state. They wanted to base the decision
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Trace the roots of the Civil War. Why did sectionalism ultimately result in violence in the United States? Was the conflict inevitable or could it have been avoided? Explain. I believe that the Civil War began with the debate over the future of slavery. That very issue led to secession‚ and secession caused a war where the Northern states fought for the ground of the Union‚ and the South for their independence as a new confederation of states under its own constitution. It seems to me that
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First Name Last Name Hist 109 May 13‚ 2013 Civil War Paper Origins of the Civil War The military conflict within the United States around the years 1861 until 1865 between the Union and the Confederacy went into history as the American Civil War. The origins of this conflict have and were foreseen and discussed by the two elite politicians Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. Both differed in ideology about what could have been the more successful political direction the nation should
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Between the years of 1861 to 1865‚ the United States was at war with itself over slavery. This war is known as the Civil War. The Civil War amendments (13th‚ 14th‚ and 15th) deeply impacted both black and white people of America. The 13th amendments states‚ "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude... shall exist within the United States‚ or any other place in their jurisdiction." The 13th amendment officially abolished slavery in the United States in 1865. The amendment freed an estimate
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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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In the years leading up to the Civil War there were three major compromises that were passed and one compromise that was drafted but never voted on. The compromises covered are The Missouri Compromise‚ The Compromise of 1850‚ and Crittenden’s Compromise; which was never acted upon by congress. These three compromises tried‚ and failed to‚ deal with the increasing sectionalism between the north and the south over the issue of slavery from 1820 to 1861. At the time the compromises were written there
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