Why was the house of Usher doomed to fall? 141210401 邓瑶菡 Although the end of the Fall of the House of Usher illustrated a scene that the house fell apart all of sudden‚ for a craftsman like Poe who declare “… no word should be used which does not contribute to the ‘pre-established’ design of the work”(textbook 110) as one of his theories for writing short stories‚ examining some details could reverse of the impression that this final collapse was only an accident occurred naturally. In fact‚ there
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Was slavery abolished at the end of the Civil War? No‚ it took amendments to the Constitution and the Congress pushing to for all men to have equal rights. The American Civil War was a major event that leaded to the beginning of the end of slavery. Slavery after the Civil War had major problems such as Southerners defending slavery‚ slaves resting their masters‚ and problems slaveys faced once they were free. What kinds of arguments did Southerners use to defend slavery? Well one argument Southerners
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The North & South emerged as two distinct regions because they had various differences. These differences included the geography‚ the economy‚ the culture‚ & the transportation of each region within the U.S. One of the most striking differences between the North & South was the climate and geography. In the North‚ the climate was very hilly and rocky so not the best for growing crops. It was also very hard to grow crops with such a short growing season. There were long‚ snowy winters and moderately
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than the South. Kids in the South had barely any education. The South had small amounts everything‚ except for farms. Both Northerners and Southerners lived in the same country‚ but the way they did things were very diverse. Even though the United States was a joint country‚ there were many social‚ economic‚ and political differences that occurred between the North and South before the Civil War. The Underground Railroad was known as an escape route for slaves trying to escape the South. Harriet
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President was told that Fort Sumter was under siege. Abraham made a unilateral decision to prepare for with the south. He Ordered : 75‚000 troops ‚Suspended habeas corpus President Lincoln was a very capable war time leader. As always‚ he began to self-educate himself about war. He read military history. He learned about strategy and tactics. He read military history. He understood what was needed actions were needed as events came about. He didn’t want to destroy the south‚ but was prepared
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of America. It was okay for the original 13 colonies to break away from the ruling power‚ but‚ for whatever reason‚ not okay for the South to leave the Union. I believe that the South had the constitutional right to leave the union and the North should have let them leave peacefully because they felt that their rights were being violated. Leaving the Union‚ they became the Confederate States of America. Both the North and South focused on their own political interests. The South believed that their
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The Reconstruction period was the era in which the United States of America was struggling with the question of how to merge the newly freed African Americans that were in the millions into the social‚ political‚ and in the labor systems. There were a lot of lynchings that took place during the Reconstruction across the country in which hundreds of black people were killed. The South causes it due to the fact it widespread violence‚ intimidation‚ and fraud. The South is the one who is responsible
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The Civil war was the bloodiest war in American history. The South had many advantages at the beginning of the war but they were short term advantages. The South relied heavily on trade from the North but didn’t realize it until the North stopped buying their cotton. The North had population and industry on their side of the war. The problem with the North is that not all northerners wanted to go to war. The reason the south took four years for the North to win‚ among other reasons‚ is because they
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a group of democrats who were anti-Lincoln during the civil war. They were not Pro-South‚ but they were very critical of Lincoln. Through many attempts‚ they took a stand for what they thought was right‚ from trying to pass their own constitution to starting violence‚ they failed to gain enough power to make a large impact. I picked this subject because it seemed like a little known topic and I enjoy politics. On April 12‚ 1861‚ the Civil War began and it ended on May 9‚ 1865. The Union states were
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soldiers in the U.S. Civil War In the Civil War‚ the Confederates and the Union ensured that African American troops had an opportunity of visiting the battlefield. Prior to the onset of the Civil War in 1861‚ almost 4 million slaves were present in the United States of America. Among these‚ at least 180‚000 served in over 163 units of the army and a thousand others in the navy (Bob and John 94). Freedmen and slaves started serving the Confederate Army in the year 1865. This was the time majority of
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