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    different social‚ economic and political stances of the North and South cultures. Both Southern and Northern states depicted two different stand points on how things should be as far as political‚ social and economic views of American in that time. The North and South’s view on political‚ economic and social status varied greatly‚ making it difficult to come to any terms‚ leading to much greater conflict. Society varied for the North and South states‚ depending on their status‚ Americans were either

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    HIS 120 The post-Civil War South has been called the “New South.” In what ways did it succeed in reinventing itself? In what ways did it fail? After the war‚ the South was devastated and it was going to take a lot of money and a lot of rebuilding for it to be self-sufficient again. It financially and architecturally succeeded in reinventing itself and in the thirty five years following the war‚ Southern iron‚ steel and textile industries emerged‚ with Railroads leading the South’s industrial

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    The North always had more 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

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    Medicine‚ one of the most influential and important assets in the Civil War‚ one of the most valuable services‚ and one of the most crucial practices helped decide the fate of the war at such a critical and tense time. Not only did medicine save the lives of many‚ it made this nation more advanced and more innovative than it ever has before. Dorothea Dix‚ influential leader and nurse‚ said that she‚ “Came as the advocate of helpless‚ forgotten‚ insane men and women; of beings sunk to a condition

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    Many factors caused the lead-up to the Civil War. The country’s tension was high before the Civil War began for many different reasons that contributed to the Civil War. The tension was high due to many massacres and laws that even heightened the tensions between the North and the South states. South states believed heavily in slavery and wanted to keep slavery around strongly and firmly since the South depended on slaves to do agricultural work. However‚ the North believed that slavery was bad and believed

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    revolt‚ and sought to put it down as one‚ which lead to early successes for the confederacy. Despite this the many advantages of the north; ranging from more citizens‚ to more income‚ caused the inevitable collapse of the south. While the south did have more officers‚ and skill sets more akin to warmaking; none of this would be enough to beat the union defending it’s ideals. The war itself didn’t strt as the union had expected. The battle of bull run‚ which Lincoln expected to win‚ was lost to general

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    The North took victory in the civil war against the South. The North had several of advantages when it came to defeating the other side.The blockade. As the war progressed the blockade of Southern ports slowly became more effective‚ closing the ports and thus cutting off the vital supplies needed to fight the war. This includes medicine. The South had to rely on Europe even more so than the North for supplies with which to fight the war so by eliminating more and more ports into which the supplies

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    Civil War‚ often times regarded as the most gruesome‚ and the most terrible war of all time. Why is the Civil War given so many names‚ one reason would be because it was a war against brothers. You would think that 9/11 and many other foreign attacks put a big mark in history‚ while they are tragic events‚ they were not as horrible as the Civil War. 9/11 managed to kill about 3‚000 Americans while the Civil War managed to kill 600‚000 solders. 4‚800 Confederate and Union solders lay dead on the battlefield

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    slavery would be prohibited anywhere north of the southern boundary of Missouri in the future. The Missouri compromise had initially handled the status of slavery before 1846‚ from the procurement of the Louisiana purchase‚ which was the first large purchase of land. The question of western expansion of slavery into these new territories was now the beginning of what started the era of the civil war and the great divide of the American people. The new territories did not apply to the new territories

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    The “Civil War” was important in history because it was when the Northern and Southern part of the United States battled against each other‚ due to the sides having their own different beliefs and religions. This war lasted 5 year from 1861-1865. The South believed in “Slavery” and were heavy about it because it was their way of making money more easily. But‚ most people who didn’t have slaves or very little would also work with the slaves or be tolerated like one. But the North believed in more

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