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    The Main Cause of the Civil War The main cause of the Civil War started because the south felt like they were losing control of slavery which was the central conflict cause of the war, from the north in the United States. The south knew slavery was necessary for the economy and production to keep growing. Abolitionists and the Free Soil Party which formed into the Republican party and it was the first party committed to ending slavery throughout the United States because the south wanted to…

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    The end of the United States Civil War firmly addressed the governments view on the legality of slavery, but issues from the American slave era still lingered throughout the country. In particular the South was devastated physically and socially from the Civil War. Many southern towns such as Atlanta were completely destroyed physically and left desolate by the Union army, and the social structure of the cotton dependant south was completely upturned with the emancipation of the African slaves.…

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    the bloodiest single day fight in American history, with more than 23,000 setbacks. The Union triumph there prompted the Emancipation Proclamation. Gettysburg and Vicksburg i had major impacts such that Gettysburg was a union that stopped Robert Lee in the North and Vicksburg gave the union army control over the Mississippi River. The political effect of Sherman’s capture in Atlanta was politically important as it convinced many people in the North that the war would soon end, and in fact aided…

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    Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, also known as Frederick Douglass, was just an average slave living with his master, just like everybody else at the time. According to Blight in the Encyclopedia of African American History, as a child, he was separated from his family and had to live a new, devastating life with his slave owners. He lived as a slave for 20 years and as a fugitive slave for 9 years. Throughout his journey as a slave, he was passed on from master to master. He left his first…

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    Republican Party Formation

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    issue. Their views and campaign of abolishing slavery made the issue even worse than it was due to the fact that it influenced people to take action against it. Therefore, the formation of the Republican Party was the sole reason for why the Civil War took place. It has since made compromise hard to accomplish and friction between the two parties intensify. The Republican Party was created in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act. “The Kansas-Nebraska Act…

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    The United States’ constitution allegedly adheres to the promotion of civil liberties of the American people, but in reality, persecutes the African Americans held in bondage. Frederick Douglass shines light on the persecution of his race in his narrative. Douglass was born a slave, yet died a free man. He fought hard to educate himself, and to establish himself as an intellectual human being, rather than an object for ownership. After he escaped slavery, he made it his goal to educate the…

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    Edmund Morgan, an American historian and a previous history professor at Yale University, unveils how slavery was able to exist in America while liberty was held at the highest of standards in his journal Slavery and Freedom: The American Paradox. After sifting through the stories of our nations founding fathers and most important men of the American Revolution his discovers that, unlike most other historians, the fopaux we call slavery did not begin as a racist act. Morgan also discovered that…

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    The war between Britain and the United States was not an easy battle to win as it had to took many lost to achieve victory.It took the United States many battles with the Brtish to get there independence. Both sides had fought hard and many people had died during the long bloody war. On May 10 1775, the Second Continental Congress that all thirteen colonies assembled was in Philadelphia. They had planned to meet a year ago during the First Continental Congress. During the Second Continental…

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    his victory of the election, therefore the independence of the South and the civil war became inevitable. Since the result of the election of 1860s is another major effect than “Slavery”, which means Abraham Lincoln has played important role in the beginning of The Civil War. Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, he prevented the separation of the Union and not only won the Civil War, but also brought freedom and emancipation to all the Slaveries in the Untied…

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    up slavery for various reasons. The Dred Scott v. Sandford case set precedent for other cases with similar conflicts. This case also provided reasons for the Civil War to occur between the North and South. The South wanted to continue slavery and the North wanted to abolish slavery, although slavery was not the only reason the Civil War occurred. The Compromise of 1850 was for Texas to give 10 million dollars for the debt to Mexico and the states of Utah, New Mexico, Nevada, and…

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