The Civil war rages, the War between the States has become known as the bloodiest war ever fought. The Civil War divided the United States between its Northern and Southern states. ... Sumter by the Southern states and lasted until General Robert E Lee surrendered his southern troops at Appomattox Court House in Virginia on April 9, 1865. ... The Southern states wanted their independence respected by the national government. ... The Southern states believed that the right to succeed from the Union was within the doctrine of states' rights. ...

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Charles Dew's ancestors fought for the Confederacy, and growing up, he was taught the only reason the South had seceded was for states' rights. ... According to Dew, "the past is far from dead in the Southern reaches of the United States (7). "Virginia's Richmond City Council voted in favor of a mural of Robert E. ... Dew states, the only way to find clear evidence of the role slavery played in secession is to study the speeches and letters of the men who served as commissioners of the lower South. ... Before the states had actually seceded, the Mississippi legislature and South...

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By the mid 1890s the United States was the world's number one industrial powerhouse (Lichtenstein, Strasser, Rosenzweig - p.21). It was necessary for the North to parent southern states after the war, because the South was left very unstable and the exploitation of free-slave labor was no longer an applicable tool for the South. This disabled the South to be self-sufficient, putting them economically at the mercy of increasing industrial northern states. ... The Republican Party in 1854 was made directly as a result of the southern power wanting all states to become slave states. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate