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    one of the most important aspects that greatly influenced and shaped the country throughout America’s long history. One of the examples from Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address that incorporated religion and mentioned in the film is when he stated God’s will in relation to the American Civil War. Lincoln commented

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    Name: Professor: Class: Date: Analytic Essay on Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom’s Cabin is an American anti-slavery novel written by author Harriet Beecher Stowe and widely recognized as one of the major driving forces behind the American Civil war. As pointed out by Al-Sarrani (2016), Uncle Tom’s Cabin is widely associated with its impact on the civil war between the Northern and Southern states of America. Despite Harriet Stowe Beecher being a staunch Christian, a daughter of a minister

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    interesting, the first taking place before The Civil War and the second one, after The Civil War. His word choice is elaborate and precis, which makes it quite easy to analysis what he is trying to put forward in his speeches. Although some may argue that Lincoln had other ideas in mind, it is quite evident that his vision of America was heavily based around equality of all people. His underlined intentions, the information he puts forward, and his words about religion are all strong examples of his views

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    The Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Fair Housing) was one of the most momentous achievements of Civil Rights. It was originally instituted in 1964 to protect Civil Right workers however, in 1968 the focus shifted to fair housing. This legislation was to ensure no discrimination in the sale, rental or financing of real property based on race, color, religion, or national origin. This meant all human beings but most specifically African Americans. After the Civil War segregation was legally rampant in

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    The Abolition Of Slavery

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    state "are, and henceforward shall be free." (Lincoln, 1863) After the end of the Civil War, the 13th amendment was passed abolishing slavery throughout the United States. Henceforth, allowing all African Americans; who were once bought and sold for the primary purpose of doing the white men’s dirty work, to be free to choose a life for themselves. Following the 13th amendment, the 14th and 15th amendment and the Civil Rights Act of

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    The history of American Slavery has been recounted by many scholars, taking into account different perspectives. During the 1850’s an abolitionist movement began, gaining momentum to pass anti-slavery legislation. Slave owners concerned about the growing movement, decided to take the matter into their own hands and fight for their property rights. Now as historians look back and analyse slavery, many different ideologies are constituted. While the depiction of philosophy in history is a way to analyzing

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    well. Therefore, the Great Awakenings tremendously influenced the development of american society prior to the American Civil War. By the 18th century, there were concerns about the declining religious devotion and the increase of secularism emerging in the United States. The result of these changes was the Great Awakening, the first major american revival. There were many preachers that were outspoken from their religion. George Whitefield was one of many of those preachers. Whitefield was very compassionate

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    Abraham Lincoln was a Great Emancipator because of his use of important american documents, his belief that preserving the union would only be possible with freeing slaves, and how his views on slavery and the civil war, connected with politics and religion. Lincoln used important American documents in furthering his argument of freeing slaves. In document three, lincoln states, “there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration

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    Considering servitude inside the various states was secured by the American constitution, abolitionist opinion concentrated on maintaining off the regions. Those in the south, contending that their regions were the basic assets of the considerable number of region’s dwellers, demanded that all they esteemed their established appropriate to convey slavery into domains. Besides, the slaves and the land were the assets of the southerners. The North had the benefit of simply pushing protection of the

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    Civil War Tensions

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    How did the tensions of the 1860’s show the human side of the Civil War? The people in the 1860’s were going through hard times because of the Civil War. It affected people of all different genders, ages, races, and religions. It was especially hard for three groups of people: women, children, and African Americans. In battle or not,many of these people suffered greatly. Children lost their fathers in the war, which left many orphaned. Churches and communities would set up orphanages to help

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