under the Confederacy to be now free men. The Confederacy was beginning to crumble; Southern cities were destroyed and the Southern economy was in ruins. Lincoln now focused his attention on the idea of Reconstruction‚ and reuniting those Southern States back into the Union. It would not be easy for Lincoln‚ however‚ as he faced far different ideas than his‚ proposed by the Radical Republicans‚ led by Pennsylvania Representative Thaddeus Stevens and Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner. Despite being
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were attempting to take the Confederate Capital of Richmond‚ Virginia. The Union Naval vessels with 204 guns heavily outgunned the Confederate vessels that had only 35 guns but the determining factor of the battle was the new type of vessel‚ the ironclad. The noteworthy combatants of this battle were the CSS VIRGINIA and the USS MONITOR‚ both were ironclad ships that changed the way naval battles would be fought in the future of the war and the future of the United States Navy. The CSS VIRGINIA was
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Union’s use. The Confederates did not want this change to happen‚ so they resisted‚ and strengthened the prevention of any of the Union’s use of the river. The battle went on as both sides gained more armed forces to face each other. A lot of men ended up dead‚ and a lot injured as well. Furthermore‚ this battle lasted from May 18 1864 to July 4 1864. Many may say it was a small battle‚ but the number of casualties was not small at all. In total Union and Confederate states‚ the approximation
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very hard to become a great lawyer and then president of the United States. He had to have determination to fight for a cause that others did not agree with. His motto “I walk slowly‚ but I don’t walk backwards”‚ shows his determination and commitment. One of Lincoln’s greatest contribution’s was the preservation of the Union (United States). The civil war was a conflict between the Northern States and the Southern States over issues like taxation‚ tariffs‚ laws‚ military and slavery. In
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A frequently‚ and sometimes hotly‚ discussed subject; the outcome of the American Civil War has fascinated historians for generations. Some argue that the North’s economic advantages proved too much for the South‚ others that Southern strategy was faulty‚ offensive when it should have been defensive‚ and vice-versa. Internal division in the South is often referred to‚ and complaints made against Davis’ somewhat makeshift‚ inexperienced‚ government. Doubts are sometimes raised over the commitment
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arguments on why the South lost the war would be the fact that state ’s rights prevented unification of the South‚ Jefferson Davis poor leadership and his failure to work together with his generals‚ the South failed to gain the recognition of the European nations‚ North ’s superior resources made the outcome inevitable‚ and moral of the South towards the end of the war. First‚ the South couldn ’t have won the civil war because state ’s rights prevented unification of the South. The very issue that
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What if the Civil War had not happened? The slavery system in the North America will die out slowly later because of the trend of the times or it will continuously spread out its influence to non-slaved states. It is difficult to find the most exact situation in this case. However‚ the human beings know that the slavery had existed for a long time before it was abolished completely. Surprisingly‚ 1981 is the year the last country‚ Mauritania‚ abolished slavery1. The end of Civil War is in 1865‚ meaning
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The Loyalty and Loss written by Margaret M. Storey is a well-written and persuasive book studying how the Unionists in Alabama‚ the Deep South state‚ confronted the Confederate authorities during the civil war and their life in the Reconstruction. The first interesting thing I found was that the diversity of the Unionists. The author tried to find the similarities among the different Unionists and surprisingly she found out that the Unionists were highly distributed. Some of them could from the
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Did you know that 32% of the Confederate army died at Gettysburg? Gettysburg was know as the turning point in the Civil war between the Union and the Confederate armies. How was Gettysburg the turning point in the Civil War? Gettysburg was the turning point in the Civil War because the Confederate army was greatly outnumbered‚ the confederate army lost 32% of the army at Gettysburg‚ and there was a National Soldiers Cemetery built at Gettysburg. The first reason why Gettysburg was the turning point
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abolished slavery in the United States. Though most people believe that the primary motive behind freeing the African-American’s was to benefit their race‚ it was instead to assist in helping the Union gain more power and eventually win the war over the Confederate states. In order for the southern states to be readmitted to the Union‚ they were required to acknowledge and ratify this amendment. Lincoln knew that if he were to abolish slavery‚ the southern states would lose their labor force and
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