Leading to War How did the civil war come to be? We can go back to as far as 1492. There were many seemingly unconnected events that led to the start of the civil war. Including the introduction africans to america‚ their introduction to slavery‚ and the moral conflict surrounding the issue. In 1492 Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas. When the news was brought back people began their journey to the new found Americas. Soon British colonies settled in Jamestown Massachusetts
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Tennessee and Virginia‚ followed by Texas later. The Confederate States left the United States and took control of the military installations‚ ports and other properties of the Union within the confines of the Confederation‚ thus triggering the American Civil War. Probably two were the root causes of secession: Republican intent to restrict and even eliminate slavery; on the other hand‚ the great limitations of political power of the States of the Union with regard to the ownership of
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Conflicts widened between the North and the South as two sides collided in every event before the Civil War. The North and the South were very different in many ways. They were known as two different countries because of their cultural and economic differences. The disagreements between the North and the South aggravated the separation that was soon to follow. When the North gained the control of the government‚ the South seceded. The North was industrialized and had many factories. It also included
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were many significant events that lead to the Second World War. These include the German invasion of poland‚ the failure of the League of Nations‚ increasing political tensions in the 1930’s‚ and the german rearmament. The three most important causes of WWII are the Treaty of Versailles‚ the German invasion of Poland‚ and especially the political takeover in 1933 of Germany by Hitler and his Nazi Party and its aggressive foreign policy. One major event leading up to World War one was the signing and
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During the beginning of the antebellum epoch it consisted of tragedy from the War of 1812‚ but then came forth a new generation with an economic struggle to pay for the cost of the war. The fundamental approach for the economy after the war composed a new national bank that commenced the corruption. As a product of the chaos there came a split within the north and south on how the debt should be covered. As causes of war led to the Panic of 1819‚ it resulted in the first American financial crisis as
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There have been many major events that have changed countries forever. The Civil War was one of those as hundreds of thousands of americans were killed by family‚ friends‚ and fellow americans over the issue of slavery and issues between the northern states and the southern states. The Civil War has said to be one of the bloodiest wars in the world having more casualties than World War II‚ World War I‚ Vietnam‚ and the Korean war combined. The Civil War had many major events and battles that changed
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5 Main Events Leading Up to the Civil War 1. The Mexican War Ended - 1848 When the Mexican War ended‚ America was ceded western territories. This caused a problem on whether these new territories would be admitted as slave states or free states. To deal with this‚ Congress passed the Compromise of 1850 which basically made California free and allowed the people to pick in Utah and New Mexico. The ability of a state to decide whether it would allow slavery or not was called popular sovereignty.
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The Civil War had many causes‚ some of them were long term causes and some of them were immediate causes. The long term causes were the problems that seemed to never be solved between the North and South. Slavery for instance was a long term problem because it was never completely solved; however continuous compromises were made between both sides‚ but the disagreements would not disappear. On the other hand‚ the immediate causes were the problems in which guaranteed that the North and South would
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The “Civil War” was important in history because it was when the Northern and Southern part of the United States battled against each other‚ due to the sides having their own different beliefs and religions. This war lasted 5 year from 1861-1865. The South believed in “Slavery” and were heavy about it because it was their way of making money more easily. But‚ most people who didn’t have slaves or very little would also work with the slaves or be tolerated like one. But the North believed in more
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Prompt: There were numerous events and crises during the 1850’s that contributed to the advent of the civil war. Choose three and analyze the relative significance of each in contributing to the advent of the Civil War. During the time period of the mid 1800’s there was a great deal of growing tension between the northern and southern states. Many northerners were abolitionists and were anti slavery‚ the northerners didn’t want to outlaw slavery completely but wanted to put an end to slavery expansion
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