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    War on Diplomacy To the victor goes the spoils, and in war that comes with writing the ballad of history. The American Civil War was no different, and it has gone down as a moral war that pitted brother against brother, spilt the blood of hundreds of thousands Americans, and showed the world that all men truly were created equal. This war showed the world that America was willing to do whatever it took to be one nation, indivisible with liberty, and justice for all. The Confederates did not share

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    The Revolutionary War gave birth to America, but the American Civil War would define America’s future with the blood of its own citizens. The Civil War proved to be bloody and confusing war for both the Union and Confederacy. Even in the confusion they both understood the importance of the Shenandoah Valley and what it meant to their war effort and aspirations of victory. Whoever controlled the Shenandoah Valley controlled a major logistical artery and also the entire Virginia Region. The valley

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    African Americans and the Civil War Slavery affected many of the political reasons that contributed to causing the Civil War in 1961. Most in the Northern states including President Lincoln were more concerned with preserving the Union rather than fighting for the freedom of all. On the other hand the South fought to preserve what they believed to be absolute state rights. However the overall goals of the war were altered significantly by the willingness of African Americans during war. This also

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    There is no debating the cause of the American Civil War. The root of this historical war was slavery. The United States’ Civil War was over the ideology of slavery: the morality, expansion, and abolishment. Conditions that set the stage for the conflict rose internal to the United States, however international factors played a paramount role to the creation of the catastrophe that was the American Civil War. Transnational factors that caused the Civil War are foreign influences or events that helped

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    The American Civil War of 1861 to 1865 was a battle between the Union Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, and the Confederacy, led by Jefferson Davis and was described as ‘cruelty’ by one William Tecumseh Sherman. It can be argued whether slavery was the real root cause of the carnage that caused the loss of over 620,000 military personnel and a speculated 400,000 who were captured or deemed missing. The Unionist historian George Bancroft blamed slavery ‘the uprising of the irresistible spirit of the

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    The civil war began when the confederates attacked the union soldiers at the Fort Sumter in South Carolina. The civil War started April 12th 1861. The Civil war was fought between the northern states and the southern states. There were many causes for the civil war, including the ideas of trade, states’ rights, tariffs, and most importantly, slavery. During the civil war the U.S army was neither considering nor accepting black soldiers. The white volunteers’ were diminishing and the African Americans

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    The Civil War was a war between the North and the South after several states in the south seceded after Lincoln's Presidency. The war first started off as states rights but as the war went on and progressed the war was fighting to end slavery. African Americans had an important impact on the Civil War. There was individual African Americans who made an important impact in the civil war. For example Frederick Douglass he was known for being a escape slave and a good public speaker for his efforts

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    it feels. during the civil war, the north and south fought for four years for freedom and rights. They solve political problems and ended slavery. the civil war started on April 12, 1861, because of the economics of slavery and political control of that system. the south wanted to carry on slavery and did not treat people of color as normal people; they also wanted a confederate government. while the north decided to abolish slavery and run a federated government. during the war, slavery was put on

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    were many causes to the American Civil War. One Major cause of the Civil War was the Missouri Compromise. This was a cause because people from other states who were eligible to vote voted that missouri would be a slave state even though the people living in missouri wanted it to be a free state(The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia 1). The Missouri Compromise incident also caused small battles like Bleeding Kansas(Causes of the Civil 1). One other major cause of the Civil War was the election of President

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    The American Civil War was one of the most tragic events in American history. The American Civil War began on April 12, 1861 and ended on May 9, 1865. It was a bloody war between states. Hundreds of thousands of men died in the American Civil war. The war was fought between brothers and friends on each side. The issue of slavery was dividing the nation apart and it was a fight to death. The Confederate States of America seceded because they wanted slavery to continue and believed that they did not

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