In the early 1860s America faced the bloodiest war in its history‚ known as the American Civil War. The country was broken up by a drastic sectional divide between the North and South‚ which would eventually end in greater conflict than any yet seen on American soil. While many factors were important contributions to the cause of the war‚ there is ongoing dispute on what the most significant cause was. The North and South had many conflicting fundamental ideas such as Northern industrialism versus
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American Civil War – Yankees and Confederates: mid-19th Century Historical Investigation American Civil War – Yankees and Confederates: mid-19th Century To what extent was the Civil War inevitable? To a great extent the Civil War was inevitable. In 1861‚ the Civil War in America began‚ lasting four years and causing terrible destruction. The factors of different economies‚ slavery and human rights‚ different views of the Constitution‚ the westward expansion and Lincoln’s election contributed
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What Caused The Civil War? There were many different contributing factors to the start of The Civil War. Five of these causes were the Northwest Ordinance and Missouri Compromise‚ John Brown’s raid‚ The 1850 Compromise‚ The Kansas-Nebraska Act‚ and the constant conflict between the North and South. The Northwest Ordinance said the there could be no slavery in states north of the Ohio River‚ however slave holders moved west to new states. This then led to the Missouri Compromise which said no slave
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Sectional Crisis Leading to the civil war there were a plethora of things that impacted the unity of the nation as a whole. Two major events that contributed to this were the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas Nebraska Act. Both of these events changed the relationship of the nation in many ways. The Compromise of 1850 was a compromise that stated California would be admitted as a free state‚ the slave auction would end in Washington D.C‚ settlers of Mexico and Utah would decide whether
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argument was that the framers knew more about the issue of slavery and its expansion than they did now. Lincoln turned this argument for the use of the Republicans by explaining the voting records of the majority of the men who signed the Constitution. When the question of slavery in the Northwest Territory became an issue Lincoln sites the fact that of six who voted‚ five voted against slavery and only one voted for the peculiar institution’. By voting and the majority of who voted feeling it was not
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Events Leading Up to the Civil War Conflicts widened between the North and the South as two sides collided in every event before the Civil War. The North and the South were very different in many ways. They were known as two different countries because of their cultural and economic differences. The disagreements between the North and the South aggravated the separation that was soon to follow. When the North gained the control of the government‚ the South seceded. The North was industrialized
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Was the American civil war inevitable? The civil war was inevitable‚ only however‚ after one key event; the cotton gin made the civil war inevitable. The invention of the cotton gin in 1793 was the key element which enabled the south to have sufficient vested interest in their traditional lifestyle in order to feel the need to defend it at all costs even from their Northern countrymen. The core argument of this essay centres around the evidence which clearly defines their being in existence two
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During the fight against Mexico the United States was unified on bringing they land apart of the United States‚ as a result of winning The new territory it also created a lot of tension among the United States congress. The main reason was over slavery‚ if it would be allowed over the territory that was just won by the United States which began the compromise of 1850. Both sides were against one another‚ several congressmen saw this as a opportunity the south to increase farmland and for slavery
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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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|What were the advantages and |Popular sovereignty meant that the sovereign people of a territory should determine the statues of | |disadvantages of popular |slavery. It was popular with politicians because it was a comfortable compromise between the | |sovereignty? |abolitionists and the slaver-holders. | |Why was the Free-Soil party |The Free Soil Party emerged. It was formed
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