My thesis will support why it is important to research and share the role of women during the civil war. ... Documents such as these, are some of the only information we have about the mysterious world of secret agents during the Civil War era. Without these few surviving documents, we may have never known the dangerous and effective roles these women played during the Civil War. ... My thesis will support why it is important to research and share the role of women during the civil war. ... Documents such as these, are some of the only information we have about the mysterious world of secret ...

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Important people of the civil war The civil war (1861-1865) took more American lives than any other war in history. ... The Civil War is also known as the War Between the States and the War of Secession. ... Important people: Calhoun, John Caldwell (1782-1850), of South Carolina, was a major American political figure before the Civil War. ... McClellan, George Brinton (1826-1885), served for a while as the general in chief of the Union Army during the Civil War (1861-1865). ... Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865), He led the United States during the Civil War. ...

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It is the day that the Civil war began. ... The Civil War is important because it affected African Americans and their future in America. ... African Americans played a major role in the Civil War. ... During World War civil rights groups pressed the government to provide training for black pilots on an equal basis with whites (Memory). ... During the Civil Rights era, blacks organized sit-ins, boycotts and marches. ...

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Why did the south lose the Civil War? The American civil war began in 1861 with a victory for the North. Over the four years the war lasted over half a million people died. ... The south had absolutely no industrial capabilities to aid them during the war. ... Many USA officers joined the confederacy at the start of the civil war. ...

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During the years leading up to the American Civil War, there were many factors that lead to the occurrence of tension and conflict between the Northern states, the Southern states, and the Western States. ... In Northern states leading up to the civil war, slavery was abolished. ... This proves to be highly contradictory leading up to the civil war. ... This was the major difference between the South and the North, and was a massively important cause of the civil war. In the end, all of these tensions were very important, and ended up being some of the causes of the American Civil War....

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While another form of rebels' desires to get rid of certain people or ethnic that has been ruling the nation arbitrarily, or some people with unfair governance (Collier 1999). Greed and grievance are an important element that is inseparable in explaining conflicts that escalate to Civil War. ... Once a country falls into the trap of civil war, it becomes a continuous conflict. ... Charles Taylor's trial and conviction by the International Criminal Court for aiding and abetting civil war in Sierra Leone lingers on in peoples mind with a victim saying "This is a happy day. ... Civil ...

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The end of the Civil War brought peace, however, many people continued to worry as loved ones had not yet returned. ... The Civil war affected the lives of Southerners eminently before, during, and after the war. ... The events in Gone With the Wind coincide with what actually happend, making Margaret Mitchell's story an acurate historical account of the South during the Civil War. ... Life was not changed just during the war, but for years to followas people were pulling their lives back together. The Civil War is a significant event that will always be an important part of American ...

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During and After Civil War Moral and economical reasons caused the Civil War. The Confederate States had difficulty during the war and they had the worst outcome of the war. ... The Confederate states during the Civil War had weaknesses which caused them to fail. ... During the Civil War, the Confederate States had several disadvantages, which were certainly the reason for their defeat. ... During Reconstruction, the period after the American Civil War affecting former Confederate states, Lincoln had to decide on how the Confederate States should be punished. ...

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Without the events that happened during the war black Americans wouldn't be inspired to campaign for the civil rights. ... With the help of World War 2 white people in America became more accepting toward black Americans and majority of the white community supported the civil right movement. ... Montgomery bus boycott was important in getting the civil right act passed as not only did it create awareness about racial discrimination towards coloured people. ... Martin Luther king wasn't only an important person in getting the civil rights acts passed but he was also important in getti...

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The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. ... Lincoln's March 4, 1861, inaugural address declared his administration would not initiate civil war. ... Root causes Slavery Contemporary actors, the Union and Confederate leadership and fighting soldiers on both sides believed that slavery caused the Civil War. ... Subsequent writers on the American Civil War looked to several factors explaining the geograph...

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The end of the civil war was certainly a time of change, and as times and people changed so should policies governing those people. ... In the PBS Documentary, The Civil War and Reconstruction2 Johnson was far from the leader that the United States needed during this time of change as his political views and beliefs in civil rights were slanted towards the South and its beliefs. ... According to PBS, The Civil War and Reconstruction, in the year of 1865, more than 2,000 black freed men and women were murdered during the negotiation process. ... Worried that the Civil War would have been in...

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The Civil War pitted Americans against each other. The sectional divisions between the North and South caused tensions leading up to the Civil War, but the issue of slavery would ultimately lead to war. Tensions evolved between the North and South before the Civil War due to their difference in economic structure, and political views. ... During the 1830s, abolitionist movements tried to reach and convert a mass audience. ... As historian Ted Alexander notes, in his essay on the causes of the civil war, "Beneath this great wealth and prosperity, America seethed. ...

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The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. ... Lincoln's March 4, 1861 inaugural address declared his administration would not initiate civil war. ... Root Causes Slavery Contemporary actors, the Union and Confederate leadership and fighting soldiers on both sides believed that slavery caused the Civil War. ... Subsequent writers on the American Civil War looked to several factors explaining the geographi...

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The people living in the Northern and Southern states have been trying to resolve these issues, unfortunately the issues brought on war. ... Therefore, a little background on the break out of Civil War would not hurt. ... The first set off the Civil War took place when John Brown, a white abolitionist took upon himself to free the slaves by setting a raid on Harpers Ferry a year prior to Lincoln's election.4 As the Union Army was trying to gain control over Fort Sumter, the first shots of the Civil War was fired. 5 The North held many advantages over the South during the Civil War. ... ...

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In fact, in April, 1861 started the American Civil War, which ended with more than 500.000 dead men. ... In order to do this, I shall try to give an explanation of the Civil war's causes, the slaves' progress during war and their situation in the era of Reconstruction. ... In spite of that fact, some of them, such as Mary Ann Shadd, (who would be recruiting black people for the Civil War) reached freedom. ... Thus, the American Civil War begun. ... This paper has manifest how American Civil War (which immediate cause was the Mexican-American War) important was regarding to emancipat...

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With the Civil War over, there was another war to be fought. ... The Civil War was a defensive war for the south. ... After the Civil War, the southern states were under distress. ... It also disabled southern rebels to use the railroads to transport war supplies, an important factor in winning the war. ... Millions of American lives were destroyed during and after the Civil War. ...

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The Civil Rights Movement Before the Civil War, the U.S had the distinction of being the one of the only countries in the world where slavery was fully legal. ... After the war, more movement toward equality was made. ... During the 1950's and 60's he acheived international fame by leading numerous peaceful marches, boycotts, and sit-ins. The beatings, mass arrests and even killings of the Civil Rights demonstrators pledeged to nonviolent Civil Disobedience were important factors in swaying public opinion and in the ultimate passage of a new Civil Rights l...

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Causes of the Civil War Was slavery the only cause of the Civil War? ... Many historians say that slavery was the main issue of the Civil War. ... "Approximately 620,000 soldiers died during the Civil War. ... We had fought the Revolutionary War to be free of the English, but slavery had always been legal during that time. ... Grant, a prominent general in the Civil War had a slave (Jordon 12)". ...

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Second topic that we discuss is the American Civil war which played the all-important role in the consciousness and political awakening. We can say that 1776 revolution had created the nation but the civil war consolidated the nation and gave it to a new shape. ... So we can say that the civil war brought important changes in the structure of the country and changed the perspective of the people about certain things. The American civil war ended the contention between the two sides and also ended the long rivalry which had intensified during the Lincoln era. ... The civil war determined the fu...

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Many average Americans would attribute the cause of the American Civil War to slavery, but are there other possible causes? Could the "history" taught in so many classrooms throughout the United States of America be wrong about something so important as the real cause of the Civil War? ... When asked what caused the American Civil War, most will say that slavery caused it. ... During the early days of the Civil War, he actually ordered slaves who escaped from the south to the north to be return to their owner. ... Slavery was officially "tied" to the Civil War as a reason to fight after th...

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Tony Horwitz's book, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War, travels throughout old Confederacy to examine these deep-seated effects of the Civil War in contemporary society. ... The sub-title of the book, "Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War" may come as a surprise to a number of readers who assume that the Civil War had come to an end in Appomattox 150 years ago. In fact, "Americans remained obsessed with the Civil War. ... It's a way of saying what white people have bottled up.... In addition to a classroom of black kids in Alabama, Horwi...

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The long civil rights movement behind the act really took off after the Second World War and peaked during the late 50's and early 60's. ... The desire for equality in these aspects was the springing of political movement building that brought about important organizations and events, and eventually the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. ... In this essay I will discuss the long Civil Rights movement against discrimination that took place during WWII and continued into the 20th century. ... However, to the people during the march, Kings words were not just referring to desegreg...

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The film features the life of Scarlett O'Hara, played by Vivien Leigh, during the onset of the American Civil War. ... Scarlett decides that the most important thing from there on out are the survival of her family and her own well-being. ... The entire film was shot from the perspective of southern people, so it makes sense that southern ideals were most prevalent. ... Another biased perspective is that of the American Civil War itself. ... I enjoyed the way the film told the story of the American Civil War without simply spelling out the facts. ...

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Between the years of 1848 and 1861, many important events happened that would eventually bring forth the civil war and would eventually dictate the outcome of the war. 10. The establishment of the Underground Railroad was the tenth-most important even to happen during this time period. ... The ninth-most important even that happened during this time period was the execution of John Brown, a killer of 5 people who were pro-slavery. ... The Dred Scot decision was another important factor that contributed to the eruption of the Civil War. ... Because it was the spark that lit the fuse that ...

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The civil war did not change our system of government, or the leaders in charge. ... Finally, nor did the civil war have profound impacts socially on the people of the United States of America. ... The war, "increased northern wealth and capital by 50 percent during the 1860s while destroying 60 percent of the southern wealth. ... Racism was a sad fact, and way of life for most people during the Civil War era. ... This was true during the American Revolution, and it was true during the Civil War as well. ...

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