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  • The American Civil War

    The American Civil War

    The American Civil War was from 1861 to 1865 it was a civil war between the United States of America and the Southern slave states of the newly-formed Confederate States of America under Jefferson Davis. The Union included all of the free states and the five slaveholding border states and was led by Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party. Republicans opposed the expansion of slavery into territories owned by the United States, and their victory

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    Essay Length: 1,133 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Mike
  • Civil War

    Civil War

    The first major land battle was fought at Bull Run in Virginia in 1861. The men who were soldiers in these armies were volunteers who chose to go to war. They wanted to win a quick victory but instead found that there was a lot of marching and drill, living outdoors, disease, bad weather, and boredom. Where did all the soldiers who fought at Gettysburg come from? Why did they choose to go to war?

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    Essay Length: 489 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Mike
  • The Road to the Civil War

    The Road to the Civil War

    Phil Ninan 12/5/2005 U.S. History Per. 4 The Road to the Civil War Until 1861 compromises helped the United States of America to avoid civil war. The Compromise of 1850 led a series of events set out to prevent war. The compromise of 1850 consisted of negotiations Henry Clay made which included issues on: slavery, land, and money. Also there were events that helped lead to war such as the Kansas-Nebraska Act. This included concerns

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    Essay Length: 453 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Steve
  • Beginning of Civil War

    Beginning of Civil War

    The Compromise of 1850 only lasted for a few years. People continued to move west, in search of land, prosperity, and a new life. With them, were slave owners, who wanted the same as everyone else. This heated the debate even further. Another disruption was the new fugitive slave law. This entitled southerners to come north in search of their runaway slaves. This also infuriated many northerners. Southern slave owners did not have to prove

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    Essay Length: 450 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Jon
  • Regions of Us After Civil War

    Regions of Us After Civil War

    The Civil War left an impressionable mark on the nation as a whole - physically, economically, and furthermore politically. Two of the nations regions most affected was the South and the West. While the south gained political strentgh through a "solid south" Democracy, their weak reliance on the crop lien system adversel affected their econmy; meanwhile the farmers migrated to the west because of the Homestead Act, their economy suffered in part because of over

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    Essay Length: 505 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Mike
  • The American Civil War

    The American Civil War

    The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the events surrounding the end of the American Civil War. This war was a war of epic proportion. Never before and not since have so many Americans died in battle. The American Civil War was truly tragic in terms of human life. In this document, I will speak mainly around those involved on the battlefield in the closing days of the conflict. Also, reference will be made

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    Essay Length: 2,547 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Mike
  • North and South Civil War

    North and South Civil War

    Throughout American history, one can see from a chain of events why certain interactions have been constructed. As for the North and the South, they exhibited their differences before the 1860’s, and it was from their clashing viewpoints that started the Civil War. However, this war did more than prove their contrasting goals, as it showed the diversities between the two. Politically and economically, the North and South changed dramatically due to the Civil

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    Essay Length: 446 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Yan
  • The American Civil War

    The American Civil War

    The American Civil War (1861–1865), which is also known by several other names, was a civil war between the United States of America (the "Union") and the Southern slave states of the newly formed Confederate States of America under Jefferson Davis. The Union included all of the free states and the five slaveholding border states and was led by Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party. Republicans opposed the expansion of slavery into territories owned by

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    Essay Length: 370 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Monika
  • The Causes of the Civil War

    The Causes of the Civil War

    The Causes of the Civil War In the 1800’s there was much turmoil over the debate of slavery and whether it was inhumane or not. Slavery caused the nation to separate into 2 factions; the north, who believe in abolishing slavery and the south who thought that slavery was a “benign institution” as quoted by Ulrich B. Phillips. There is much debate whether slavery was the prominent cause of the Civil War. Contrary to popular

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    Essay Length: 680 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: July
  • Why the North Won the Civil War

    Why the North Won the Civil War

    Why the North Won the American Civil War Union officer William Tecumseh Sherman observed to a Southern friend that, "In all history, no nation of mere agriculturists ever made successful war against a nation of mechanics. . . .You are bound to fail.” While Sherman’s statement proved to be correct, its flaw is in its assumption of a decided victory for the North and failure to account for the long years of difficult fighting it

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    Essay Length: 1,271 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Civil War

    Civil War

    For immigrants and new citizens, there are several important events, people, and ideas that should be learned. The Puritan colony in Massachusetts Bay, the conflict in the colony that led to the establishment of Rhode Island, the French and Indian War, the move west, and the Civil war are all key things and should be understood by all American residents. Puritans The Puritans held strong beliefs concerning their faith as well as their purpose in

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    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: regina
  • Federal Gov’t During Civil War

    Federal Gov’t During Civil War

    America’s republican form of representative government was premised upon the idea of three co-equal branches of government: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. The three branches, in theory, operate independent of one another and serve as check upon one another. It is this structure of this government, the founders believed, that would retard any establishment of monarchial government that the American Revolution was fought upon. However the civil war, and more specifically the Reconstruction period following

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    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Monika
  • The Civil War to the Modern Day

    The Civil War to the Modern Day

    The Civil War to the Modern Day The Civil War was the bloodiest war in American History. Even though the war was a tragedy because of the life lost, it helped to better the United States to this day. One might wonder how the Civil War has affected different aspects of the United States over the years. If one were to examine events that took place after 1865, they would be able to find similarities

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    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Mikki
  • The Cause of the Civil War

    The Cause of the Civil War

    Will AP Essay Ever since its beginning, the debate over cause of the Civil War has created enormous controversy. To many people, the cause of this terrible conflict was the issue of slavery, and the failure of the North and South to solve this issue. To others, the war was caused by the North’s economic and political aggression towards the South. However, the war itself was caused by the failure of the democratic institution of

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    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Mike
  • Problems Solved by the Civil War

    Problems Solved by the Civil War

    After Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, marking the end of the Civil War, the nation was relieved that the bloodiest war in American history was over. Though the Civil War had resolved some important key issues that had led to the conflict, other problems still remained, unaffected by the violence and bloodshed. The Civil War solved a few of the extremely pressing issues of America. The pressure built over the conflicting arguments and passionate debates

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    Essay Length: 359 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Edward
  • Causes of the Civil War

    Causes of the Civil War

    CAUSE OF THE CIVIL WAR In 1860, the world's greatest nation was locked in Civil War. The war divided the country between the North and South. There were many factors that caused this war, but the main ones were the different interpretations of the Constitution by the North and South, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the arrival of Lincoln in office. These factors were very crucial in the bringing upon of the destruction of the Union.

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    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Vika
  • The Red Badge of Courage - an Episode of American Civil War

    The Red Badge of Courage - an Episode of American Civil War

    The Red Badge of Courage: an Episode of American Civil War, by Stephen Crane Henry was a teenage boy around the age of sixteen years old. He lived in New York City in the year 1893. The Civil War had started and Henry made his mind up that he wanted to fight in the northern army. Henry’s mother tried very hard to persuade him not to enlist into the army. She told him old veteran’s

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    Submitted: January 2, 2010 By: Stenly
  • John C. Calhoun: The Starter of The Civil War

    John C. Calhoun: The Starter of The Civil War

    John C. Calhoun: The Starter of the Civil War If one person could be called the instigator of the Civil War, it was John C. Calhoun -- Unknown. The fact that he never wanted the South to break away from the United States as it would a decade after his death, his words and life's work made him the father of secession. In a very real way, he started the American Civil War. Slavery was

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    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Civil War

    Civil War

    During the decades leading up to the Civil War, annexation of territory was viewed within the context of the debate about slavery. No anti-imperialist organization was formed to oppose the Mexican War or the annexation of territory that resulted from it because it was seen primarily as a war for the extension of slavery and opposition was channeled through abolitionist organizations. It reluctantly approved the purchase of Alaska in 1867. In the early 1870's, it

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    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Monika
  • A Critical Analysis of Spanish Society Prior to the Civil War

    A Critical Analysis of Spanish Society Prior to the Civil War

    [This paper is perfect for an advanced level Spanish-language student who wants to make a critical analysis of Spanish society prior to the Civil War.] En Garcнa Lorca pretende divulgar la situaciуn dramбtica que padecнan las mujeres en la Espaсa de la йpoca anterior a la Guerra Civil. La obra es una crнtica social hacia los valores tradicionales que denuncia la sociedad conservadora y represora, la cobardнa hacia el cambio, la ignorancia, la falta de

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    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Janna
  • African American Contributions During the Civil War

    African American Contributions During the Civil War

    Intelligence gathered during the Civil war came from many sources however we will look at on the African American role … African intelligence information was some times referred to as “Black Dispatches”, this was a term used by Union military men for intelligence on Confederate forces provided by Negroes. This source of information represented one of the most creative and productive types of intelligence information obtained and acted upon by Union forces throughout the Civil

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    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Yan
  • The Civil War

    The Civil War

    Chanel Ninan December 5, 2005 Mrs. Siiss Per. 5 The Civil War The civil war was the greatest war in American History. Three million people fought in it and out of them six hundred thousand died. It was the only war fought on American soil by Americans. The compromise of 1850 was one compromise that tried to avoid a war. The fugitive slave act was one of the events of the 1850's that led to

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    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Wendy
  • After the Glory: the Struggles of Black Civil War Veterans

    After the Glory: the Struggles of Black Civil War Veterans

    Behind the current Clinton scandal stands the specter of Watergate. That it should be there is understandable. The bungled burglary at the Democratic Party national headquarters occurred twenty-six years ago this past summer. Next August will see the twenty-fifth anniversary of Richard Nixon's resignation as President of the United States. Watergate then is still very much a part of living memory, and living memory is the type of history most relevant to the general public

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    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Andrew
  • The Civil War Was a National Tragedy That Could Not Have Been Avoided

    The Civil War Was a National Tragedy That Could Not Have Been Avoided

    “The Civil War was a national tragedy that could not have been avoided.” In the time leading up to the Civil War, the United States was struggling to stay united and strong. The leaders were weak, individuals were going public with the truths of cruelty to slaves, and conflicting rebellious acts were occurring. This national tragedy could have in no way been avoided. Franklin Pierce was an indecisive, inconspicuous man whose not so stellar attributes

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    Essay Length: 573 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Yan
  • Who Was Right in the Civil War

    Who Was Right in the Civil War

    When the Confederate States of America seceded from the Union, Abraham Lincoln was correct in holding Fort Sumter, while Jefferson Davis was wrong in attacking Fort Sumter. When South Carolina seceded from the Union 1860 President Buchanan ruled that secession was illegal, although nothing could be done. Since secession was illegal that meant that the United States of America did not view the Confederate States as a sovereign nation, that made Fort Sumter and American

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    Essay Length: 471 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: July

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