Before Civil War began‚ even as the country was being set up with the Articles of Confederation‚ slavery was an issue that had to be dealt with. When the final vote for the ratification of the Constitution some states would not sign on it if slavery were made illegal. They decided to deal with it in twenty years. After the compromise of 1820 they limited slavery to the south‚ which would split the country into two for the next forty years. The South would feel that slavery was the best thing for
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Hist. to 1876 Was the Civil War worth it? I believe that the civil war was worth it. Even though a lot of negative consequences came out of it‚ the positive outweighed the negative. The largest cause of the war was slavery. The North and South had contained their differences over slavery for sixty years after the Constitutional Convention. Compromise in 1787 had resolved the questions of slave trade and how to count slaves for congressional representation. The Compromise of 1850 was the last attempt
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Was World War II inevitable in 1939? In the early hours of the 1st September 1939 German forces invaded Poland. 21 years after the end of World War I‚ the world had to face the beginning of another world war that should last 6 years. World War II was one of the most disastrous events in human history causing approximately 60 million deaths and destruction almost all over the globe (msn Encarta 2008). Winston Churchill wrote in the preface of his book about World War II (The Gathering Storm):
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world war one was caused by a single country‚ Germany. Evidence of this comes from the fact that Germany believed that war was inevitable‚ they were in the process of designing military strategies for a war prior to Austria-Hungary having any hostility towards Serbia‚ and tried to pressure countries into unwanted treaties. There is information to suggest that Germany anticipated a war ever since they themselves became a country. In 1871 “following the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War‚ Germany
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World War 1 started in 1914 where Germany where blamed of causing it. This essay will be explaining if it was really Germany their fault of causing World War 1 and if it was inevitable. There were early signs in Europe that World War was going to come. In Blackadder Goes Forth‚ Baldrick opined that the war began when ’Arch Duke shot an ostrich because he was hungry’. His garbled version of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary reflects popular opinion: that the issues
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World War 1 was inevitable. Throughout generations‚ wars happened all across the globe‚ between countries‚ cities‚ and even small ones between families. A war that was spread across every major country was bound to happen‚ one way or another. World War 1 had many rising causes that would eventually have started a war‚ such as Militarism in countries and Alliances between great powers and world leaders‚ the immediate cause was the assassination of the Archduke of Austria. What happened during this
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Jimmy Herrmann APUSH DBQ Essay Mrs. Rudolph The immediate years after the Civil War‚ 1860-1877‚ saw the United States through a revolution. Reform movements and changing states of mind among the American people contributed to the revolution with regards to constitutional and social aspects of life at that time. The passage of Civil Rights Legislation such as the 13th‚ 14th‚ and 15th amendments; and‚ ironically‚ the KKK and other social events helped with the reform. Alone these things couldn’t
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Ansley Walker DBQ Byrd The period of the Civil War and Reconstruction‚ lasting from 1860-1877‚ the nation underwent a multitude of powerful changes‚ physically and emotionally. A school of thought today exists that‚ “The North won the war‚ bur the South won reconstruction.” What does this mean exactly? When the Union defeated the Confederacy‚ Northerners‚ freemen‚ and existing slaves imagined a political and social revolution in which their dreams of abolition and government power would manifest
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Revolution and the American Civil War are two of the most monumental events in the history of the United States of America. However‚ their characterization as a “revolution” and a “civil war” has been argued for many years. It has been argued that the American Revolution was not a true revolution‚ but a civil war‚ and that the American Civil War was not a civil war but rather America’s time of revolution. Some aspects of the American Revolution support the argument that it was a revolution‚ while other
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War in Syria DBQ Essay has become the most disturbing problem recently. Every day we hear numerous news reports about the military conflict in this country. We read about its victims‚ refugees and severe bombing. On the other hand‚ very few Americans understand the reason of this conflict. Furthermore‚ many people will hardly show the location of Syria on the map. What caused the Syrian Civil War? What are its consequences? Is it possible to stop the conflict and settle down the whole situation
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