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    The Civil War was an very important historical event because it shows that the world can be a cruel place at some moments and this war shows that we need to come together and not have arguments because this war had many more deaths than all the U.S wars all together. Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman were very important appliances in the war and also the technology for the war. The cap bullet was a very important part of the war and including the telegrapher‚ photography and the railroads were

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    Why did Charles I lose the Civil War? The English Civil War was 1642-1651 and was a series of battles and political conspiracies between Oliver Cromwell‚ the leader of Parliament and King Charles I the leader of the Royalists. The civil war set the supporters of King Charles I against the followers of Parliament‚ this resulted in the Parliament’s victory and the King’s execution. Cromwell’s army was lead by Sir Thomas Fairfax who was one of the outstanding military commanders of the English

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    Lack of Money One of the reasons why the civil war broke out in England in 1642 was because of Charles ’ lack of money. To discover the source of this‚ we have to go back to the beginning of James ’ reign. James was the first King to reign over both England and Scotland‚ and when he came down from Scotland it is said that he was astonished at how rich England was‚ while James had needed to borrow money for his travelling expenses. When James died in 1625‚ Charles came to the throne‚ and he

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    The civil war‚ which commenced in 1861‚ was the cause of 750‚000 deaths. The war pitted the union‚ which was predominantly northern states‚ against the rebellious confederacy who refused to modernise their way of living. The confederacy consisted of South Carolina‚ Mississippi‚ Florida‚ Alabama and Georgia. In the end‚ the union was able to resist the confederate rebellion. However‚ since the end of the civil war‚ many have argued about it’s primary cause. At the forefront of the argument is slavery

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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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    The Chinese Civil War‚ which took place from the end of World War I (when the Chinese Communist Party was set up) up to October 1‚ 1949‚ directly led to the creation of the People’s Republic of China‚ the world’s largest communist nation. The communists won the civil war in 1949 for many reasons. Although they did not have many things the KMT had‚ they had enormous support from the peasants. As 95% of the Chinese population‚ the peasants were the main citizens of the country. Through this mass

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    The English Civil War in 1642‚ started because of Parliament due to them being responsible for many actions that escalated the conflict. During the years that lead up to the war‚ 1625-1642 in England‚ Parliament forced the King’s hand multiple times‚ as well as passing numerous unreasonable demands for power. Parliament’s decisions were the reasons for why the war broke out. Parliament was the main driving force behind the war as their political demands for power‚ refusal to supply tax to the King

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    therefore‚ a civil war began. Now I am going to talk what effects of the participation of Germany how did Germany participated‚ did this

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    In this chapter I will try to find out why the Civil War actually started‚ and what the consequences of the war were. To find out this I need to know a little more about the history of the Civil War. The causes of most wars are often very complex‚ but in the America civil war it came down to two major issues‚ slavery and the protection of the Union. In the North‚ they were growing richer all the time as industry developed fast. The workers were mostly immigrants with low wages. The South didn’t

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    THE WAR BETWEEN SOUTH AND WEST The middle of the XIX century was a period of worsening economic and political conflict of Northern and Southern States. For a long time two dissimilar type of economy existed and developed in the framework of a single state‚ of course‚ competing among them‚ but not bringing the situation to tensions. However‚ in this period it became increasingly clear the inevitability that contradictions of the two systems will turn in the armed struggle for power‚ for the victory

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