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    Abraham Lincoln's Goals

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    Abraham Lincoln isn’t like most presidents that be think of that is rich‚ famous‚ and makes small adjustments to the United States to try and make it better. Abraham Lincoln‚ along with the Northern part of the United States abolished slavery. They wanted slavery get rid of slavery in the United States‚ but the Southern states didn’t. The Southern half of the United States thought that slavery was nessecary. The North and South tried to adjust the laws in order to try and make slavery better

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    Throughout his lifetime‚ President Abraham Lincoln earned much respect and honor. As his life ended‚ he went down as one of the best and respected presidents. He helped to end slavery‚ he was independent‚ and made time for the people of his country. First off‚ Abraham Lincoln helped to end slavery. In the Civil War‚ Lincoln was on the side that wanted to win and end slavery. Aside from the he got the idea flowing through the country’s brain that slavery was wrong by banning it. “He moved his family

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    FREDERICK DOUGLASS QUESTIONS 1. Who was Frederick’s father? Who was his mother and did he really have a relationship with her? 2. What does Frederick say about miscegenation? 3. What did Douglass say about the singing of slaves? 4. Why were slaves afraid to talk about their misgivings with slavery? 5. Who was Mr. Gore? What did he do to a slave named Demby? 6. Why did Douglass look upon his going to Baltimore as evidence of good luck and divine providence? 7. Who was Sophia Auld and what

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    Could the United States have become half-slave and half-free and not fought the Civil War...Why or Why not? The United States could not have been half-slave and half-free without fighting the Civil War. I say this because the North and South had quite a bit of things going on between the two. It is too much of a contradiction to be half-slave and half-free. In a perfect world‚ this might have worked‚ but in the real world‚ it has to be one or the other. During the development of the thirteen colonies

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    Civil War Causes

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    What do you think was the cause of the Civil War? The main cause is not slavery‚ but SLAVERY is the main source of the causes! The Civil War • Started 1861 – 1865‚ very bloody‚ deadly‚ 160 thousand people died • War between the Confederacy and the Federal Government • Confederacy: the southern states (not all)‚ based on slavery --- separation • Federal Government: no separation allowed (Lincoln)‚ keep unity! Causes linked with slavery Why South want to separate from North? Culture

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    The conflicting and different perspectives adopted by the North and South in discussing the issue of black American slavery is founded mainly on economic‚ rather than political differences. It is important to note that the two regions have different economic and political orientations when the early British settlers inhabited the then-called Americas. The Southern region inhabitants inhabited the part of the territory that has sparse fertile land‚ low and often scarce water resource‚ and a generally

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    When examining the Civil War‚ many causes of conflict are often overlooked by the obvious cause of slavery. While slavery was somewhat of a cause of the war‚ it definitely wasn’t a big reason and makes the key reasons of conflict seem very small and dismal. There were many more causes to the Civil War like some that will be mentioned in this essay. The Civil War was not fought solely to end slavery and free the slaves. First‚ slavery was more of a symbol then a reason of conflict in the Civil War

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    Bleeding Kansas also took part in causing the Civil War. Bleeding Kansas was a war between the anti-slavery and pro-slavery activists. It took place between 1855 to 1861 (Ponce). Missouri was a slave state and Kansas had not yet decided to be pro-slavery or anti-slavery‚ and because the two sections did not agree with each other‚ that caused a war. “Yet the violence that broke out in the 1850s was an unintended consequence of the territory’s organization” (Ponce). President Franklin Pierce signed

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    Civil War Causes

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    Causes of the American Civil War The American Civil War was a war fought from 1861 to 1865‚ after the United States split up sometime from 1860 to1861 (Causes of The Civil War (3) 1). The war was fought over secession; secession or withdrawal is when a population with significant possessions is revoked from an established single country and a founded separate government (Secession 2). In The Civil War this meant that the Southern states disaffiliated themselves from The Union and proclaimed themselves

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    Kingdom: ProtisIntro: The Civil War was an event that was inevitable occurrence in the course of history. The main cause of the war was slavery‚ which could not have been stopped if it were not for the war. Since the north and the south were so distant‚ it made it hard for them to agree or compromise. The Civil War could not have been avoided because the nation including political parties were split‚ no other compromises could settle issues about slavery‚ and slave rebellions could not of been prevented

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