world." We have a lot of differences in our country but we also have a lot of similarities from start to end. We fought through slavery and arguing between top and bottom or as in this writing North and South. People aren’t the same and the government found out that the hard way with the Civil War. We had to depend on each other in the end‚ north needed raw materials and south need products. How did the U.S. Government handle this and did they see the differences between each side. The north side had
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Why did the South Lose the Civil War? Beginning as a battle of army versus army‚ the war became a conflict of society against society. In this kind of war‚ the ability to mobilize economic resources‚ the effectiveness of political leadership‚ and a society’s willingness to keep up the fight despite setbacks‚ are as crucial to the outcome as success or failure on the battlefields. Unfortunately for the Southern planters‚ by the spring of 1865‚ the South was exhausted‚ and on April 9‚ Lee surrendered
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The Civil war‚ which began in 1861‚ came to an end on May 13th‚1865‚ and the Union claimed the victory. But the South were victorious in many of the earlier battles of the war‚ but at first they had a strong military leadership. The South’s defeat was due to poor strategy in the military and the appointment of weak generals‚ many people also believe that political leadership‚ foreign support‚ the supply of the army and war economics were reasons they didn’t win. The North also had mountains and
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Have you ever wondered what life was like in the North and South before the civil war had been fought. I have done my research to tell you what it was like.The Northern economy was based off of industries for example some were fur‚ lumber‚ shipping‚ and textiles to name a few. There was a growth in trade and manufacturing of goods during this time. There were very few slaves in the North the work force was made up of mostly immigrants and at this time there were no child labor laws in place there
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It is often assumed that the civil war was based solely on the existance of slavery in the south. This assumption is generally made by people who are not fully educated on the topic‚ and are unable to fully understand each of the different factors that led to the civil war. While slavery did play an important role in the disunion of the north and south‚ the war itself was caused by disunion and disunion alone (Schweitzer‚ Jeff). The largest factors leading to the war composed of state’s rights‚
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might be realized.” (W.E.B Dubois). This explains that people‚ both in the south and the north have seen all the bad issues that happened after the civil war. The civil war has caused a large separation between the south and north. From all the damage that happened between the two states of slavery getting involved and separation made Lincoln make a reconstruction to make the north and south one big state at the end. The north had passed the 13th‚ 14th and 15th amendment to protect the African-Americans
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*Why did the South secede? Would the North have acquiesced in peaceful coexistence if the South had not fired on Fort Sumter? Today everyone says the reason the South left the Union was; Slavery. Slavery was not the only factor that led the South to secede. In fact‚ some of the wealthiest slaveholders opposed secession. They believed‚ for good reason‚ that slavery would actually be safer in the Union than out of it. Most people aren’t aware that‚ even as president‚ Lincoln supported a proposed
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There were many reasons for the Civil War. As an example‚ most people feel as if the Civil War was about slavery‚ although recently we have found that it was actually about federal and state rights. Slavery was a small but effective role in the Civil War. The southern half of the United States were “slave states” as the north were “free states”‚ there were always an equal amount of slave and free states. The south and north had very different views and constantly got into disagreements with each
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Analyze the events leading up to the Civil War from the perspectives of both the north and the south. Be sure to discuss both on the eve of war in regards to politics‚ culture and economics. The north relied heavily on industry and commerce‚ while the south relied heavily on plantations and agriculture. They were also seeing completely different views on the subject of slavery. Three big causes of the Civil War were that of states vs. federal rights‚ slavery within territories‚ and the abolition
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contributed to the Civil war‚ but the most famous and well known one was slavery which happened around in the mid 1800s. The conflict consisted of the Northern and southern states. Each side had their own view on slavery as south used it heavily for their economic structure while North barely used it. In conclusion both had different views on whether the expand or stop slavery growth growth or to have slavery at all. This all started out with the missouri compromise which itself would have been an odd
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