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    As tensions continued to build because of the constitution allowing slavery‚ the South felt it was being backed up into a corner. (Schultz‚ 2013) The problem was‚ the South’s entire economy depended on slave labor. The North was already industrially sound‚ however in the South‚ it was the way of life and was based upon an agricultural society rather than an industrial society. The civil war was inevitable because the North and the South would not compromise on issues of slavery‚ sectionalism‚ and

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    military historians have written about the American Civil war as been the first total war ‚ however it is not enough for one to just agree with this view without understanding in details what total war is all about‚ and what are the characteristics of a total war‚ it also imperative to know whether the American civil war was a total war‚ before proceeding to see if it was the first total war by closely examining what Scholars and war historians have said about the topic‚ some Authors

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    American Civil War was a hard time in American history. Brother against brother. A country divided and so many deaths. There were many events that lead to the war‚ but the main event was the ending of slavery. There was many causes for the Civil War ‚that broke out in April 12‚ 1861‚ but the main cause was slavery. The burning issue that led to the disruption of the union was the debate over the future of slavery (‘Causes Of The Civil War’). In my opinion I do think that was the cause of the civil war

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    Name __________________________ Civil War Persuasive Essay Question Instructions: Answer the following question in a well-developed‚ five-paragraph persuasive essay: “Was the Civil War inevitable or preventable?” Suggestions and requirements:  Your answer should be equivalent to at least 5 paragraphs of 5-6 average-length sentences each.  Your answer can be “yes‚” “no” or somewhere in between.  Make sure you understand the wording of the question fully before you begin.  It would

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    Using Advertising to Fight the War on Drugs: The Power of Social Marketing or a Waste of Money? Belch & Belch   Purpose/Objective: • Preventing children from trying and using drugs. Problem: • ONDCP and PDFA couldn’t prove that the money being spent on anti-drug messages were reducing drug use among children and young people. Key issues within the case: • Between 1987 and 1989‚ advertisement produced by the Partnership for a Drug Free America (PDFA) relied on scare tactics

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    Lincoln explains how the house would not stay the way it was‚ which was divided. Half of the United States supported slavery and the other half did not. Lincoln states‚ “A house divided against itself cannot stand”‚ concluding that something needed and was going to happen to change that. When relating this to the question of whether the Civil War was inevitable or not‚ this supports that is was indeed inevitable. The question of slavery was too grand of an issue to not result in some type of event

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    April 12‚ 1861 was the first day of the Civil War. This was the war that would determine what kind of nation we would be. The causes of this war is mainly the lack of ability to compromise‚ and the poignant subject of slavery. When Abraham Lincoln‚ the first republican president‚ won the election in 1860 he guaranteed to keep slavery out of the territories. This caused an immediate uproar in the southern slave states‚ leading to seven of them seceding from the nation and creating their own; the confederates

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    may have tried to get the North and the South to come to a compromise on their differences during the 1800’s‚ but the Civil War was a completely inevitable event. One of the most notable differences between the North and the South was their stances on who should have more power in government. Northerners believed that federal government should be the one to decide whether slavery was to be abolished or not. The South disagreed since they felt that states should be independent‚ and have the right to

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    slavery was finally being dealt with in a certain regard. In the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries‚ the north was still scared to upset the south so they didn’t do anything drastic. The south had this conspiracy that the north and the government was against them and that they were all trying to abolish slavery. Even though they’re weren’t very many huge improvements to the slavery laws‚ it was fairly clear that there would be a big conflict to resolve the issue. The civil war was inevitable

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    The Civil war was inevitable if the conflict between the south and the north‚ slavery and politics were resolved. After independence‚ the differences and complexity of America sharpened increasing slavery. The complexities in terms of the migration of the whites and black slaves and shift from small scale farming to large scale farming made civil war inevitable. There were many differences between the north and south. The north preferred city life while the south was keen to plantation life. The

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