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    US Civil War United States of America was formed as a result of the revolution that continued from 1776 to 1783. After that, United States was divided into two wings/ parts that are the southern and the northern parts. Then conflict between the two aroused because the northern and the southern societies were totally different of each other in terms of economic structure, social class, politics and other social matters especially slavery. The civil war, that started in 1861 and ended in 1865, was

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    of the American Civil war must be resolved, and while there are many ideas, history reveals that there was only one. There are many arguable motives to the start of the Civil War, but there are four main concepts. These four concepts were slavery, taxation, the election of Abraham Lincoln and lastly, struggling with power between the Northern and Southern states. To start with, the end of slavery is undoubtedly one of the most popular arguments to the creation of the Civil War. While many consider

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    government during the Civil War and the Reconstruction eras. The book deals with the association of the Northern class and the Federal government. It provides a history of the economy during the Civil War and help to reveal why a socialist economy would not further the American economy. Bensel is of the belief that an independent state authority would be a better form of government. He contended the United States Federal government’s growth was as a result of the Civil War during the Reconstruction

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    Industry lead to Northern Victory? The North’s industrial dominance was a major factor of why the won the war as it was an underlying factor to the other aspects of how they won. Through the North’s industrial prominence it allowed them to be a much more versatile and flexible army through transportation, population and financial supremacy. The Northern industry allowed them to produce war goods and to be an independent economy, which had a major play to their success in the war. The lack of

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    The Revolutionary War, sometimes known as the American War for Independence, was an armed conflict between Great Britain and the 13 colonies, from 1775 to 1783. Being caused by colonies rejecting British taxes and strict, impractical rules and regulations, it eventually led to the development of the United States. The Civil War, which was fought from 1861-1865 was a war between the Union which was almost all northern and western states, and the Confederate States of America which was almost all southern

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    Peter the Great was a monarch of Russia during the Age of Absolutism. Peter I ruled from 1682 to 1725. He was known as Peter the Great because he was one of Russia’s greatest reformers and for increasing the czar’s power. Peter also got credit for getting Russia out of the medieval times. During his ruling he had to deal with the great northern war. Peter accomplished many things like reforming most of russia and fighting wars. Peter forced people to take on positions in the military and government

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    Cause Of The Civil War

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    of the Civil War by understanding the divisive nature of the southern agrarian and northern industrial economies. In the Antebellum era, the South relied heavily on the production of cash crops, such as cotton and tobacco, that relied heavily on a plantation economy. Southern plantation owners also relied heavily on slave labor, which prevented more fluid labor markets from encouraging industrialization. Plantation owners did not want the advanced agricultural machinery used by northern industries

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    I feel like Andre M. Fleche wrote, The Revolution of 1861: The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict to expand reader’s knowledge and comprehension of nationalism occurring in the Civil War during the nineteenth century, on a global spectrum. Andre Fleche wanted to inform readers how the northern and southern disputes on race, social class and labor has been influenced from other international events. One reason why Fleche wrote The Revolution of 1861 was to prove that the pan-European

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    his Army of Northern Virginia. Despite being heavily outnumbered, the Confederates managed to fight relentlessly over the course of the struggle. However, after losing over a quarter of his forces, the following day General Lee pulls his army and retreats back to Virginia, ending the Confederate offensive attack. Although the Battle of Antietam was not a complete victory for the Union, it was a major

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    divide between the Northern and Southern regions. Evidently, the Industrial Revolution proposed change in the Northern way of life to a more opportunistic environment, but the Southern regions remained the same encompassed by the use of slavery for their own benefit. Moral tensions arose from the complications between the two regions, creating abolitionist groups and extremists to dictate an impending battle between the North and South. The Civil War was an inevitable feat due to northern extremism and

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