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    of how the Southern States lost the Civil War is based on three articles, each with a different perspective. According to Died of Democracy by David Donald, the Confederates were defeated because of internal challenges facing the 11 Sothern States seeking independence. Some of the challenges facing the Confederate States of America included a predominantly agricultural economy and slave revolts. In Why the South Lost by Beringer et al., the authors argue that the Confederates lost because of their

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    The American Civil War began April 12, 1861. This was a war fought between the United States of America and the new Confederate States of America. The Confederate States of American was a group of 11 states that seceded from the Union between 1860-1861, and formed their own country in order to protect the institution of slavery. Slavery was the “law of the land” until the early 19th century. Slaves were used as farm laborers and formed the background of the Southern economy. While the North on the

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    18th and early 19th centuries, the nine principles of war derived from the United States’ Army’s “Principles of War and Operations” outline a basic strategic guide on waging war. Shortly before the military adopted these guidelines, however, the United States of America saw civil unrest as the Southern states seceded to form the Confederate States of America. As the Union Army of the North battled the Confederate Army of the South, strategic principles similar to those outlined in the U.S. Army’s

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    The End Of The Civil War

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    In the 1700s, America was striving off of crops. The king of all crops was cotton. With cotton demands increased, so did the need for enslaved Africans to pick the cotton. The southern states of America were happy with cotton being king and wanted to expand north to increase cotton production. The northern states did not agree with the idea of having land used for cotton, or having Africans in the north. Northerners argued for America to transition from an agricultural economy to an industrial economy

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    inner clash battled in the United States from 1861 to 1865. The Union confronted secessionists in eleven Southern states assembled together as the Confederate States of America. The Union won the war, which remains the bloodiest in U.S. history. Among the 34 U.S. states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states independently announced their withdrawal from the U.S. furthermore, shaped the Confederate States of America. War softened out up April 1861 when Confederates assaulted the U.S. post Fort Sumter

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    to the history of the United States and the civil war. What would our country be like if the Confederacy won the war? How would our lives be impacted and what freedoms would we have today if that were the case? What if the major Union victories were actually Confederate victories? The following is just an idea of what potentially could have happened if this were the case. There was intense fighting that occurred throughout the United and Confederate States of America ranging from Texas and as far

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    in Newhaven, East Sussex, United Kingdom on March 12 1822 in a town which lies at the mouth of the River Ouse in the English Channel which was a ferry port pointing to France.1 Later with his parents, Timothy Webster emigrated to the United States of America on August 1830 in hopes of finding a greater opportunity. They settled in Princeton, New Jersey, where Timothy Webster started his education. As a young man, he learned to become a machinist; however he decided to join the New York Police station

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    War The world has faced the dangers of war almost since the beginnings of time, and America in the mid-1800’s was no different. Despite the Union having won its freedom from England during the Revolutionary War less than a century before, problems were brewing internally within the young and rapidly expanding country. As slavery boomed in the southern states, the North grew less and less content with this state of affairs. It is said that “to southern whites, the Republican victory in 1860 presented

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    Confederate Flag Essay

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    A Confederate battle flag once flew over the statehouse of South Carolina. The flag was hoisted above the building in 1961, amid the era of social equality reforms. After over 50 years of being flown above the statehouse, the flag was removed on July 10, 2015. According to the New York Times: “The final vote in the State House of Representatives, 94 to 20, was well above the two-thirds majority required to move the bill to the desk of Gov. Nikki R. Haley, a Republican who called for the flag to

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    245 years, America admitted more than 10 million slaves through the Transatlantic Slave Trade and slavery was born. The Transatlantic Slave Trade, or the Triangular Trade, connected trade between North America, Africa, and Europe. From America, plantation crops such as tobacco and cotton was sent to Europe. From Europe, manufactured goods like cloth and guns were shipped to Africa. From Africa, African slaves—men, women and children-- were transported to America. The journey to America was inhuman

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