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    Slavery was the overall reason why the Civil War was started and fought.Slavery was the overall reason why the Civil War was started and fought.Slavery was the overall reason why the Civil War was started and fought.Slavery was the overall reason why the Civil War was started and fought.Slavery was the overall reason why the Civil War was started and fought.Slavery was the overall reason why the Civil War was started and fought.Slavery was the overall reason why the Civil War was started and fought

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    Peloponnesian war When people think of the Peloponnesian war they think only of the major battle and victory of Sparta! But what of the events leading to this triumph? There was the "first Peloponnesian war" But this war had only lasted 10 years. During this time the Spartans dominated the land and the Athenians dominated the sea. One advantage the Athens had was that they constructed massive walls all the way from the city to its seaport Piraeus. This allowed them to remain inside the city

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    “Slavery cause the Civil War” Jeffrey W. Crawford Instructor: Dr. Peter Skirbunt Course: History 1301 College: Central Texas College Did slavery cause the Civil War? While slavery was not the only cause for the South to secede and take up arms against the United States‚ it was the central motivation for the Civil War. While many still debate the ultimate causes of the Civil War‚ Pulitzer Prize-winning author James McPherson writes that‚ "The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences

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    Sovereignty of India Sovereignty is a sensitive issue in India even sixty years after independence. Take the recent fracas over the Indo-US nuclear deal‚ ignited quite ironically by both the Left and the Right at the same time. It has seen the debate Centre not so much on the actual agreement‚ as on the notion of an independent foreign policy. This article isn’t about the nuclear deal. It is about understanding the meaning of sovereignty in the 21st century. A proper understanding of the concept

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    The American Civil War‚ also known as the War between the States or simply the Civil War (see naming)‚ was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 between the United States (the "Union" or the "North") and several Southern slave states that had declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of America (the "Confederacy" or the "South"). The war had its origin in the fractious issue of slavery‚ and‚ after four years of bloody combat (mostly in the South)‚ the Confederacy was defeated‚ slavery

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    supporters turned against him. On the opposite side‚ Johnson was hailed as a hero and President Abraham Lincoln asked him to meet with him to hear his views. In 1860 Abraham Lincoln became the 16th president of the US. He was from Illinois and a member of the anti-slavery Republican Party. In December that same year‚ South Carolina‚ a slave state‚ seceded from the Union. Six more Southern states followed shortly after. The U. S. Civil War started in 1861 and that year Tennessee voters decided to

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    THE CIVIL WAR:WHY DID TEXANS FIGHT? THE CIVIL WAR WAS A SAD TIME FOR TEXANS AND AMERICANS‚ AS IT DIVIDED THE COUNTRY INTO TWO OPPOSING SIDES.BETWEEN 1861 AND 1865‚ 75‚000 TEXANS WENT TO WAR.WHAT WERE THE REASONS TEXAS FOUGHT FOR THE SOUTH IN THE CIVIL WAR.TEXANS WENT TO WAR STATES’ RIGHTS‚TO DEFEND THE STATE THEY LOVE AND TO PERSERVE SLAVERY. ONE REASON TEXANS FOUGHT FOR THE SOUTH IN THE CIVIL WAR WAS FOR STATES’ RIGHTS.THE TEXAS STATE GASETTE EDITORAIL‚ IT SUPPORTS THE RIGHT OF SECESSION

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    To What Extent was the Korean War a Part of the Cold War? The Korean War‚ that began on the 25th of June 1950 and lasted until the 27th of July 1953‚ was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea). It was initially the result of the political division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of World War II. American administrators divided the peninsula along the 38th

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    To What Extent Was the Cold War Inevitable? With the end of World War II (WWII) in 1945 began the Cold War‚ an international conflict that lasted from 1947–1991 and plagued nations across the globe. As the post-war negotiations were deliberated by three of the strongest world powers‚ the United States (US)‚ Britain‚ and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)‚ disagreements arose that created tension between the US and the USSR and ultimately instigated the infamous “Fifty Years War” (Crockatt

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    Civil War So many major events from the time between 1848 and 1861‚ lead up to the civil war between the Union and the Confederacy. “Historians have identified at least four main causes of the conflict between the North and the South: (1) slavery‚ as a growing moral issue in the North‚ versus its defense and expansion in the South; (2) constitutional disputes over the nature of the federal Union and states’ rights; (3) economic differences between the industrializing North and the agricultural South

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