What were four demanding questions that would have to be answered quickly after the Civil War? From a broad perspective‚ a large array of posed questions would have to be answered quickly after the Civil War. Evidence from the text that further bolsters this claim is shown when the authors state‚ “Four questions loomed large. How would the South‚ physically devastated by war and socially revolutionized by emancipation‚ be rebuilt? How would liberated blacks fare as free men and women? How would
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policy because he eventually wamts slavery to die out. He realizes that it will not go away if he just makes it illegal over night so he wants to limit the spread into new territories. 2a. Who does the author of this editorial blame for the tensions between the North and the South? How is this opinion supported? The New Orleans editorial blames the tensions on the North and Abraham Lincoln. They believe that the South was just fine before the North stepped in and created conflict‚ it almost gives
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Essay The American Civil War was not the first war to be photographed‚ that honour goes to photographer Roger Fenton in 1855 who took pictures of the Crimean war‚ but it was considered the first major conflict to be extensively photographed. Some historians even argue that people know more about the American Civil War than any other war‚ up to World War Two because of the vast amount of photographs taken during this time. Not only did fearless photographers venture onto the war torn battlefields‚
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Civil War DBQ Americans are a democratic society that are driven for success. During the early nineteenth century the Americans were living off the buzz of the constitution and working together to form a functioning government. As Lincoln wisely said later on "A house divided against itself cannot stand.” The issue of slavery was one of such magnitude that division on such an issue would inevitably lead to a war‚ and could not have been avoided by compromise. With the Missouri Compromise
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At the start of the American Civil War‚ President Abraham Lincoln cautiously framed the conflict about the preservation of the Union rather than the ending of slavery. Personally he found the practice of slavery revolting; but he knew that neither Northerners nor the residents of the border slave states would support abolition as a reason to go to war. However by mid-1862‚ thousands of slaves fled to join the attacking Northern armies‚ Lincoln was convinced that abolition had become a sound military
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Road to the Civil War Until 1861 compromises helped the United States of America to avoid civil war. The Compromise of 1850 led a series of events set out to prevent war. The compromise of 1850 consisted of negotiations Henry Clay made which included issues on: slavery‚ land‚ and money. Also there were events that helped lead to war such as the Kansas-Nebraska Act. This included concerns with: the idea of popular sovereignty‚ repeal of the Missouri Compromise‚ and tensions between the north and
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Ragille J. Sims HIST 122 16 July 2013 Civil War War as we have come to know it‚ is a violent act practiced by two or more nations in order to achieve political objectives. Victory in war never comes without a great cost. When nations decide to go to war‚ they are risking their resources along with the lives of their citizens. What do political leaders tell their armies when they decide war is eminent? Or‚ is there even any need to explain to their troops why they need to pick up a rifle and fight
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Abolitionism is a familiar expression that defines the journey that ended slavery and segregation between whites and African Americans beginning as early as the 1820s. The Abolitionist where very vocal about their opinions and spoke openly on freedom and agreed “all men were created equal”. In response‚ slave owners contradicted these opinions and rebelled. With this conflict came the American Civil War. In result of there being so many abolitionist‚ the first American abolition society was founded
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Compromises played a big role in delaying the civil war. It was an attempt to slow the spread of slavery to the states up north and also to the territories in the west. It kept the nation united by trying to give everyone something they wanted‚ in order to keep them all happy. In 1850 there was an equal amount of the free states and the slave states. The territories and states did not want the government to control whether or not they were a slave state or a free state. They wanted to base the decision
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The foundation for black participation in the Civil War began more than a hundred years before the outbreak of the war. Blacks in America had been in bondage since early colonial times. In 1776‚ when Jefferson proclaimed mankind ’s inalienable right to life‚ liberty‚ and the pursuit of happiness‚ the institution of slavery had become firmly established in America. Blacks worked in the tobacco fields of Virginia‚ in the rice fields of South Carolina‚ and toiled in small farms and shops in the North
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