women played during‚ and after the civil war in the 1860’s‚ one can see how the female figure gained‚ and earned enterprise‚ fortitude‚ and respect for their bravery‚ for leaping at the opportunity of adventure by joining the war‚ and for their service. This was a time that war significantly affected the lives of women striving to improve their educational and social standing in a world where only men could reach positions of power. The American Civil War was an era when women lived in a man’s world
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On the eve of the Civil War‚ the United States was a nation divided into four quite distinct regions: the Northeast‚ with a growing industrial and commercial economy and an increasing density of population; the Northwest‚ now known as the Midwest‚ a rapidly expanding region of free farmers where slavery had been forever prohibited under the Northwest Ordinance; the Upper South‚ with a settled plantation system and (in some areas) declining economic fortunes; and the Southwest‚ a booming frontier-like
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Gregory Robinson Jr World Studies Civil War Essay 2/9/13 In the antebellum period there were many things that we could say were the main causes of the war but the tree that I say that caused the war would be when the Mexican war ended‚ the Fugitive Slave Act‚ John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry‚ and one of the most important ones was the election of Abraham Lincoln. With the end of the Mexican War‚ America was given western territories. This caused a problem as these new territories
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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 off what the majority wanted
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A civil war doesn’t just happen‚ it must have tension between states to create such a terrible event. The biggest tension in the United States during the American Civil War was slavery. Many people benefited from slavery and would be greatly affected if it was outlawed‚ such as the South. Many believed that slavery was inhumane and gave other states an unfair advantage in the power they held‚ such as the North. There was an effort to create a compromise between these two arguments‚ though none would
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Political One change was that when the civil war was that the Ulysses S. Grant narrowly won the presidential election. He had received a number of votes from former slaves in the South. Reconstruction acts and military control of the South meant that African Americans had some protection for their new right to vote. Laws giving African Americans the right to vote didn;t exist in most Northern states. Grant received fewer votes in the North. To get rid of these sectional differences‚ Congress passed
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Cold War Essay What do you think the Cold War is/was? Was it a war between communism and democracy? Well the Cold War was a war between the United States and the Soviet Union‚ the Soviet Union wanted to spread communism while the United States wanted to spread democracy. The Cold War was called Cold because there was not direct fighting between the two countries the Soviet Union and the United States. The two countries only fought proxy wars against each other‚ the definition for a proxy war
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Why Did the Civil War Begin? On 22 August 1642‚ King Charles I raised his battle standard and declared a civil war against his enemies in Parliament. A civil war is a conflict fought between inhabitants of the same country. In this case the two sides that fought against each other in England were the King ’s side known as the Royalists and Parliament ’s side known as the Parliamentarians. The main reasons for going to war were part of three or possibly four topics; they were Money‚ Religion‚
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The Civil War was one of the bloodiest wars fought on American soil. The Civil War was a fight between the North and the South. This war lasted for four years from 1861 to 1865. This war has many reasons why it began. Some believe that the war started because of slavery. Those people believe the Civil War started on how the North and south had different views on slavery. Also the events that showed something had to be done. The North thought of slavery was wrong and believed that all men should be
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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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