The Civil War pitted Americans against each other. ... In 1860, the South was still predominantly agricultural, highly dependent of exports to a world market. ... "2. ... Whenever you have two people-or peoples- [the North and South] joined in politics but doing diametrically opposing things, it becomes almost inevitable that at some point tensions and jealousies would break out." 3 Alexander points out that tensions between the two sides of America were inevitable. ... " 5 It reads: "All powers not delegated to the U.S. by the Constitution, not prohibited by it to the states, are re...

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As well as being credited with winning the most important war in America's history, he is also considered to have abolished the institution of slavery and set in motion the Civil Rights movement. ... He eventually raised an army and navy of nearly 3 million Northern men to face a Southern army of over 2 million soldiers and in battles fought from Virginia to California, the great war tore the United States apart. ... He chose the right people to fight the good battle. ... Roosevelt ended the great depression by implementing government work programmes and helped America win World War II....

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The best way to help understand these topics is to sub-divide them into 2 categories. ... A society is a group of people living in an environment. ... Politics for instance, is the ideology of people or a group of people or in other words the way one thinks. ... As the two parties began to form elections voting became much more important. ... In conclusion, using the example of the Klu Klux Klan will allow all four of the corner stones to be indirectly connected showing how these categories affect the important period after the civil war. ...

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Equality can be defined as when a specific society or isolated group has identical status in political and social respects; these three factors are most important when judging equality as they have the most impact upon people's lives. ... The two historians and myself disagree with Borritt who chooses to write that "it would be more accurate, even if more awkward, to call it the war for the American Dream.8" However, Borritt does not consider that Lincoln once told a friend that his "paramount object [was] the struggle to save the union and it [was] not either to save or de...

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