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    The most important outcome of the Civil War was ending slavery. The reason to that is the war wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for slavery and it is bad in the first place. Slavery still effects their daily life in many ways. If slavery didn’t happen in the first place‚ we wouldn’t have had ever had the Civil War. The civil war killed the most people than any of the other wars just because African Americans were treated like property instead of normal people because of their color. Abraham Lincoln

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    death in 1865. Hundreds of thousands of people died in the war‚ and the nation was divided both in politics. Lincoln used various strategies to help the nation survive the war. The civil war that they had was a bloodiest war in the whole world. The war kept going and the argument too. Amendments Thirteen‚ Fourteen‚ and Fifteen passed. These are the amendments that is made permanent the freedoms that were hard fought and won in the Civil War. The freedom that

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    In 1945-1949‚ the Guomindang (GMD) and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) fought for the ultimate control over China in the Second Civil War. In the beginning‚ the GMD had a great advantage over the CCP as the GMD had a larger arsenal and the Americans gave them large amounts of money. However‚ the CCP eventually won the Civil War‚ due to 4 main factors: (1) many GMD troops surrendered to the CCP‚ bringing American Weapons with them; (2) the CCP continued land reform whilst the GMD returned land to the

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    refers to the act of taking men into a military or naval force without a choice. This is what the British were doing to American men working on the ships carrying agricultural products to Great Britain from the southern parts of the United States.In fact‚ the cause of the War of 1812 was a cause of the American Civil War. It lead to a poor relationship ship between the British and the United States‚ and it hurt the southern economy. It snowball effected into the American Civil War. First‚ the

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    The Civil War was the deadliest war in the entire history of the United States. In 4 years‚ nearly 700‚000 people died. The war left a huge impact on the nation and changed the way people viewed the nation drastically. During one of the battles that occurred during the war‚ the Battle of Bull Run‚ it’s said that the families of soldiers gathered off to the side of the field where the war took place. They didn’t know that the war was going to be real‚ so when soldiers began to actually get shot and

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    years of crumbling down‚ the force had broken‚ leading to the Civil War - the bloodiest war in the history of wars - and the darkest part of American History. Thousands of civilians‚ including 65‚000 Texans‚ went forward to serve in the Confederate military. Unfortunately‚ 1 in 5 of every Texan soldier that went to fight died. But‚ in the first place‚ why did Texans fight in the Civil War and endanger their lives? Texans fought in the Civil War to preserve slavery‚ defend states’ rights‚ and protect their

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    abolition‚ and the ensuing Civil War had the most profound effect on the America we know today. In order to answer how these areas affected life today‚ some background is important. The Civil War came about due to ideological differences regarding slavery between the north and the south that had been brewing since the founding of America. White southerners believed that slaves were property and their existence was necessary in order for whites to have freedom. They used slaves for every labor job that

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    The Civil War‚ also known as the War between the States‚ was a significant event in American history that lasted from 1861 to 1865. It was a conflict between the Northern and Southern states over issues such as states’ rights‚ economic policies‚ and most notably‚ slavery. While many factors contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War‚ slavery was the main cause of this bloody and devastating conflict. Slavery has been a part of American society since the early colonial period. The Southern states

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    The Civil War started April 12‚ 1861 and ended May 9‚ 1865. This war was fought because people in the North wanted to end slavery whereas‚ people in the deep south wanted slavery to continue. On January 1‚ 1863‚ President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation‚ this declared that “all persons held as slaves are‚ and henceforward shall be free.” Jefferson Davis “was the president of the confederate states of America.” He wanted slavery to continue in the confederate states of America

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    At the end of the civil war roughly four million slaves were granted their freedom. However some argue that even though they were technically free they still had great discrimination against them. They could not function like a regular‚ free man because of the little rights they held. Even with new laws they could not use these rights and it actually became more dangerous to be free than before. They were restricted from using their rights in every way possible and barely any of the perpetrators

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