Summary of the Civil War: Fought 1861-1865‚ the American Civil War was the result of decades of sectional tensions between the North and South. Focused on slavery and states rights‚ these issues came to a head following the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. Over the next several months eleven southern states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America. During the first two years of the war‚ Southern troops won numerous victories but saw their fortunes turn after losses at Gettysburg
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Civil War Casualties: The Numbers The American Civil War‚ also known as the War Between the States‚ was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 in the United States of America after seven Southern slave states declared their separation from the North and formed the Confederate States of America. The ACW is widley refered to Americnas bloodiest conflict and more Americans both Union and Confederate‚ ended up as causalities than in any other war in U.S. history.Casualties were those soldiers who were
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The Causes Of The Civil War The Political War The North and South fought over politics‚ mainly the idea of slavery. Basically the South wanted and needed it and the North did not want it at all. The South was going to do anything they could to keep it. This was the issue that overshadowed all others. At this time the labor force in the South had about 4 million slaves. These slaves were very valuable to the slaveholding planter class. They were a huge investment to Southerners and if taken away
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The Civil War was a long war between the northern and southern states. The southern states seceded from the union‚ creating the Confederate States of America with their president as Jefferson Davis. This caused many years of violence with the union fighting for a united nation‚ and the confederacy fighting for secession. The war ended with a union victory‚ but it brought many consequences. The most significant of these consequences are the destruction of lives and property‚ the emancipation of slaves
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In the mid 1400’s‚ a lot of the people were poor and uneducated. They didn’t know how to read or write. They only people who were educated were the popes or the people working in the church. The popes and the church people really took advantage of the poor and the uneducated. They told them that they only way their relatives are going to heaven is by them paying indulgences. After all of this‚ the Renaissance happened and it changed everything. The renaissance was a cultural movement that began
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again after he wrote this‚ but he probably knew that he didn’t have a good chance of surviving and that’s why he wrote her one last letter‚ but he mentions other interesting things in his letter also‚ “I know how strongly American Civilization now leans upon the triumph of the Government‚ and how great a debt we owe to those who went before us through the blood and suffering of the Revolution. And I am willing—perfectly willing—to lay down all my joys in this life‚ to help maintain this Government‚
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The Civil War was a time of great change for many people‚ especially people who had been slaves before the war. They were finally free and required the help of the American government to adjust and get started in their new lives as free men and women. Although they received their freedom‚ they did not receive enough help from the American government in the aftermath of the Civil War for it to be as revolutionary as it could have been In fact‚ they received almost no help from the United States
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period after the Civil War was a very difficult time in the United States’ history. This time was known as the Reconstruction period and it was a very controversial time. There were many issues that had to be addressed such as what to do with the free blacks in the south and how states would be readmitted to the Union. This era saw the rise of the Radical Republicans. The government was going through changes‚ southerners were going through changes‚ and blacks were going through changes. Whites in the
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Ch. 29 THE STALIN REVOLUTION Political * Stalin was a military dictator whose radical ideas weakened Russia but industrialized it very fast and turned the people hard workers by oppressing them. * Stalin was highly paranoid and persecuted many of his top officials and supporters * People who moved to the cities‚ worked enthusiastically‚ and asked no questions could hope to rise into the upper ranks of the Communist Party * Cultural and social * Women entered careers and
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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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