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    Photography in the Civil War Although the civil war was a very gruesome war killing 600‚000 people‚ looking back on history without  photography it could not have been a modern war  (Brooks). Throughout the civil war photography was a very big part of making the civil war a modern war. Also  photography made the civil war a modern war because of the Job photographers had to do‚ people and companies‚ and the effects  photography had on the war. Since photography was so important in the War‚ people worked

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    Was the Civil War a Just War? The Vindication of Clement Vallandigham Clement Vallandigham believed the American Civil War was unjust and as a result he was “tried by court-martial‚ convicted‚ and sentenced to a term in a military prison during the continuance of the war” (234). Vallandigham’s loyalty was not to President Lincoln but to the principles that this country was supposed to stand for. The Declaration of Independence says the government is established by the people in order to protect

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    Jason Friedkin Period 8 War has changed greatly from World War 2 to the Modern War in Afghanistan. One reason is because of the weapons today are much better and more modified. Also‚ soldiers today have more technology and they are trained better for what they do. One big difference is the reason why the two wars were fought. World War 2 and the War in Afghanistan were fought in very different ways. The weapons have changed greatly from both wars. First today‚ weapons are a lot faster and more

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    to abolish slavery. Even though they’re weren’t very many huge improvements to the slavery laws‚ it was fairly clear that there would be a big conflict to resolve the issue. The civil war was inevitable due to the Northwest Ordinance‚ the Missouri Compromise‚ and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. There were signs that a war was inevitable all the way back in 1787 when the Northwest Ordinance

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    Introduction: American civil war witnessed the biggest massacre for women’s identity at that time btu wiltl they walked along with men to give them moral and emotional support so that they can reach their determined goals. During the painful journey of American civil war‚ every women‚ girl‚ nurse‚ sister‚ housewife played their unprecedented role. Body paragraph number 1: Women could be symbolized as a man with non ending bravery and courage‚ they united themselves to serve their homes and

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    set rules of the constitution. However‚ sometimes these compromises can have the opposite effect and stir unkind feelings that could lead to something as horrible as war. The Civil War occurred for many reasons; certain compromises being some of them. New experimentations in government around the beginning period of the Civil War were being used. The Great Compromise of 1787 or Sherman’s Compromise was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787

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    Despite the North having more production and population‚ the South could have won the Civil War with a few adjustments. Notice how the South’s largest production is cotton‚ compared to the North. The North had a balance of different types of production‚ which enabled the soldiers to be easily equipped with materials and accumulate wealth. One of the major reasons why the South lost was that it spent more on cotton production instead of increasing the other types of production. If it spent more on

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    Civil War Amendments

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    Civil War Amendments For four long years‚ a war raged on‚ a war being fought for the freedom of slaves. These men and women were held in bondage and seen as property by their owners. Brothers fought against brothers‚ to preserve the union‚ but also for the rights of African- Americans held in slavery. The war’s end brought a victory for the Union and freedom for the slaves. With Lincoln’s influence‚ constitutional amendments were ratified that provided the newly freed slaves with the right to vote

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    The government may have tried to get the North and the South to come to a compromise on their differences during the 1800’s‚ but the Civil War was a completely inevitable event. One of the most notable differences between the North and the South was their stances on who should have more power in government. Northerners believed that federal government should be the one to decide whether slavery was to be abolished or not. The South disagreed since they felt that states should be independent‚ and

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    Origins of Spanish Civil WarReligion and Economics By: Kristina Russell and Sydney Watson Paper 2: Assess the importance of religious and economic factors in the origins of the Spanish Civil War Separation of Church and State Anticlericalism Distribution of land and equality Thesis In the 1930’s‚ tension between political parties‚ the fight for equality‚ and the separation of church and state caused visible alterations in Spain’s religion and economy leading to anticlericalism and anti-fascist

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