What Caused the Civil War? In April 1861‚ the United States of America went to war. They did not go to war with a foreign power‚ because of a border dispute‚ and they did not go to war with the native people because of their hunger for more land. No‚ this would be a war among themselves‚ north against south‚ brother against brother‚ and in some instances even father against son. In the four long and bloody years that this war lasted more than 600‚000 of these brothers‚ fathers‚ and sons would
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When the Civil War began in 1861 it began for many political reasons all of the reasons were affected by slavery‚ but the war was not entirely about slavery. It is a belief that President Lincoln and the north started the war because they were fighting for slavery‚ but this common belief in not completely true. They fought to protect the Union. Because of the willingness of the African Americans to fight in the war they changed the idea of slavery and new reasons for the fighting of one of the
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African Americans in the Civil War In the history of the United States‚ discrimination was something that African Americans faced painfully in the Civil War era and which continues to happen on a milder scale in today’s society. When African Americans first came to America‚ they were forced to perform manual labor against their will. Greedy‚ rich‚ lazy Americans called themselves superior to the “different‚ dark-skinned” people who slowly became slaves to the whites. In bondage‚ they received
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Advantages in the Civil War No war has killed as many American men as the Civil War. This is because it was a war between ourselves. Leading up to the war were disagreements about slavery and Presidents and other things like that. The South on one side‚ and the North on the other. When Lincoln was elected‚ who the North wanted as President but the South didn’t‚ all hell broke loose. The South attacked northern troops at Fort Sumter and thus began the Civil War. In this war the North had almost
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The Civil War was bloody and brutal‚ killing around 620‚000 people. This was around 2% of the entire population of the United states at the time. The Civil War split the country pinning North against South over the issue of slavery. Many things such as the Kansas-Nebraska act and the eventual election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 led to the succession of 11 southern states because of the fear that Lincoln would abolish slavery. The war lasted from 1861 to 1865‚ and eventually‚ the northern Union states
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The Confederate-American War In 1860‚ the United States of America was locked in Civil War. The war divided the nation between the North (Union) and South (Confederacy). There were many factors that caused this war‚ but the main ones were the different lifestyles lived by each side in the North and South‚ the Kansas-Nebraska Act creating a tension between the topic of slavery‚ and the arrival of Abraham Lincoln the first Republican in office. These factors were very crucial in bringing upon of the
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http://americanhistory.about.com/od/abrahamlincoln/p/plincoln.htm Martin Kelly‚ Abraham Lincoln - 16th President of the United States retrieved October 20‚ 2010 from the World Wide Web: Mata Amritanandamayi Mata Amritanandamayi. Retrieved October 18‚ 2010 from the World Wide Web: http://www.iloveindia.com/spirituality/gurus/mata-amritanandmayi.html Mata Amritanandamayi Mr. Lincoln ’s Personality‚ By Richard J. Behn‚ Abraham Lincoln ’s Personality retrieved October 20‚ 2010 from the World Wide Web: http://www
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“Slavery cause the Civil War” Jeffrey W. Crawford Instructor: Dr. Peter Skirbunt Course: History 1301 College: Central Texas College Did slavery cause the Civil War? While slavery was not the only cause for the South to secede and take up arms against the United States‚ it was the central motivation for the Civil War. While many still debate the ultimate causes of the Civil War‚ Pulitzer Prize-winning author James McPherson writes that‚ "The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences
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The civil war was a war that redefined America and reaffirmed that freedom was not limited solely by a person’s race. The results of the war echoed long past the final battle and forever changed what being an American means today. Many of the stories and accounts from this period helped establish the meaning of freedom and the struggles to understand how freedom applied to all people such as The Gettysburg address (Abraham Lincoln) and The narrative of Fredrick douglass. Both pieces discuss American
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The Civil War and Its Ending of Slavery This paper is about the civil war and about how it ended slavery with the emancipation proclamation . I will also talk abou the physical loses of the war. The South‚ overwhelmingly agricultural‚ produced cash crops such ascotton‚ tobacco and sugarcane for export to the North or to Europe‚ but it depended on the North for manufactures and for the financial and commercial services essential to trade. Slaves were the largest single investment in the
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