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    In the mid-1800s, the Civil War has started for the fight for slavery and the state laws verses the federal laws. The north wanted to have free slavery and to have a federal Government, while the south wanted slavery to progress and have their own state laws. Many of the men died throughout the war. It was the bloodiest battle in American history with a casualties around 1,264,000 American Soldiers. Slavery and the fight for federal and state laws is main reason of why the war started and all those

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    Anderson HIST 3060 February 25, 13 African Americans and the Civil War The role African Americans played in the outcome, and the road to the outcome of the Civil War was immense. The fact that the south had slaves and the north did not played an enormous role in the issues. The north wanted to abolish slavery, and the south did not and after the war started this became one of the main reasons for the Civil War. Since most African Americans could not read or write, this made them an easy target

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    The American Civil War was the result of decades of sectional tensions between the North and South. Over the next several months eleven southern states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America. During the first two years of the war, Southern troops won numerous victories, but saw their fortunes turned after losses at Gettysburg and Vicksburg in 1863. From then on, Northern forces worked to conqueror the South, forcing them to surrender in April 1865. The roots of the Civil War can be

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    The American Civil war occurred about seventy-eight years after the American Revolution, and has many of the same characteristics of a revolution. In both wars, the American people fought for what they believed in and the way of life that they wished to live. However, the two wars differ from each other, as the soldiers that fought in the Civil War fought a new American Revolution that could have split the new world. The Confederate soldiers in the Civil War fought to keep their way of life without

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    The American Civil War, a war fought between the Union and Confederacy. Lasting from April 12, 1861, to May 9, 1865, the Confederacy fought over state laws and slavery, which led to the South seceding from the United States, creating the Confederate States of America. The reasons for the South to secede from the United States and why the North prevailed is because the South feared the blacks would destroy their ways of life, and that the North had the manpower and resources. With the mass number

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    The Civil War The Civil War is deemed to be one of the bloodiest wars in American history. However, the Civil War had seemingly been a long time coming. There were many events that took place within the fifteen years prior to the Civil War that surely foreshadowed the ultimate secession of the “cotton states” from the Union. Evidently, the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 leading to the Compromise of 1850, the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852, the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, the Dred

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    In the Civil War the North had many advantages over the South. The South was outnumbered, out supplied, and pushed into a corner using military tactics. Many things changed because of the Civil War. The military tactics used by the North changed how war was fought from then on. Many changes were made politically; some were only temporary, while others were permanent. After the war was over, the country was reunited and the image of the soul and duty of our country redefined. While both the North

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    December 2014 The Civil War The Civil War is a war that happens within a country and in this case, the Civil War took place in the United States between the North and the South. The Civil War happened between the North and the South for various reasons. Both sides expected a short war with few casualties, and instead a little over 1 million soldiers died in the Civil War. After the war was over, the war left a huge impact on the modern world through the federal government, industry, American Nationalism

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    In American History many significant events took place that reflected religious faith of multiple Americans and has shaped the world we live in today. Throughout the 1800s, the most memorable times in America took place throughout the Civil War. Events that escalated before, during and even following the Civil War resulted in a chain of reactions from many people within that period. After analyzing the events of the Civil War, I was able to draw a connection to the actions of the soldiers, women

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    When the Civil War started, no one predicted the strenuous effects that it would leave on the two conflicting sides, the Union and the Confederacy. The four year-long affair contained highs and lows for both armies, forcing politics and military aims to become entangled and riddled with conflict. The Union’s victory in the war occurred based off years of hard fought battles and timely legislation, all of which depended on both governments’ readiness to take action against the other, while blurring

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