eventually led to the Civil War. The common myth of the Civil war is that it was a war fought over the issue of slavery. So if slavery was not the reason for the war‚ what was? The war was fought to preserve the union‚ to keep the United States as one. Understanding the reasons for the south’s secession and the war requires the examination of the opposing views of the North and the South‚ the Dred Scott Decision‚ the Fugitive State Law‚ and the election of Abraham Lincoln. The south depended on slavery
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The civil war was the bloodiest war in American history. Families torn apart by different views‚ all fought in the name of liberty. Was this war about race? How could it not be? It was a fight of one group of people‚ whites‚ to own another group of people‚ blacks‚ and for blacks to be free with no oppressive master controlling their lives. A fight that lead to blacks being a free people. Black men were barred from joining the U.S. military because of an existing federal law passed in 1792. President
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This mostly consisted of the issue of extension of slavery into other territories. The debate that originally came up nearly 40 years before was eventually set to rest in the Missouri Compromise‚ but I guess it managed to arise again. The mexican war added new territories and the issue arose again in the 1840’s. Again‚ the issue was temporarily put to rest. However‚ the Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854 which was sponsored by Douglas‚ brought this slavery extension issue to the surface again. The Kansas-Nebraska
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Examining the Civil War Examining the Civil War A war that originated because the nation was divided ultimately marked the beginning of a truly unified United States. The Civil War put to rest the increasing sectionalism that divided the North‚ the South‚ and the newly colonized West. At the root were the issues of slavery in the South‚ and the attempt of the Southern states to withdraw from the Union. Although many lives and untold millions were lost in personal belongings‚ livestock‚ and
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Running head: THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR The Nigerian Civil War Molloy College The Nigerian Civil War Between 1870 and 1900 the continent of Africa and the Africans that inhabited it endured a European imperialist push that ended with the entire African continent‚ except for the nations of Ethiopia and Liberia under the colonial boot of the European powers. The European nations of Belgium‚ Britain‚ France‚ Germany‚ Italy‚ Portugal and Spain carved up the continent between
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Depiction of typical Old South and using American Civil War as background. William Faulkner produced his famous short story A Rose for Emily which describes a tragic story of a southern girl named Emily Grierson. Emily Grierson was born in old southern aristocratic family whose life was heavily influenced by her father. When she was young she had many suitors but according to her father none of them were good enough for her. During‚ the time when her father was alive Emily was seen as figure to be
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Slavery was the underlying cause of the American Civil War. With two strong believes there was nothing that could change the mind of the south‚ so the two groups were leaded to solve it in the battle field. Slavery a very important issue that cause a lot of damage in order to get a good solution. First in the 1850s it banished the Whig party and destroying the two national party system and later on in the 1860s it caused the biggest war that the United States has gone through. The union was divided
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Trace the roots of the Civil War. Why did sectionalism ultimately result in violence in the United States? Was the conflict inevitable or could it have been avoided? Explain. I believe that the Civil War began with the debate over the future of slavery. That very issue led to secession‚ and secession caused a war where the Northern states fought for the ground of the Union‚ and the South for their independence as a new confederation of states under its own constitution. It seems to me that
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What if the American Civil War had never happened? Would slavery have ended? Would America be anything like what it is today? If several key leaders in the early 1860’s had their way‚ the war would never have happened. These efforts were led mainly by leaders from northern and border states and they sometimes involve making major concession to southern leaders. The chain of events immediately prior to the Civil War were known as the Secession Crisis of 1860. This crisis was the culmination of many
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six southern agrarian and slave states of the United States: Alabama‚ South Carolina‚ Florida‚ Georgia‚ Louisiana and Mississippi. The decision on the separation took place after the abolitionist Abraham Lincoln defeated the presidential elections of 1860. The North was commanded by the industrial bourgeoisie that defended the protectionism customs for not being able to compete with the prices of the English products. The South‚ which was based on the agrarian economy‚ was commanded by an aristocracy
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