The author wants to make clear that even though Lincoln was a large part of freeing the slaves that it was not his intent as president or for the war. The author states that although this revolutionary achievement was made, it was not part of Lincoln's war aims. ... McPherson is trying to show Lincoln's role in the abolition of slavery as being both revolutionary and conservative. ... He began to lean towards the side of a revolutionary while still keeping his conservative edge. The abolishing of slavery was a top priority for him and for the civil war. ...

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Women saw the beginning of their journey to equality at the turn of the Revolutionary War. Many women fought in the war (though they also had to disguise themselves), but their legal status was still not equal to white men. ... In the North, free African Americans and a few choice servants were allowed to learn, something that never took place before the Revolutionary War. ... After the Revolutionary War, groups of women, Native Americans, and African Americans all fought for their God-given rights, and though they were overall not successful, they began the journey to equality. ...

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To continue, the most popular of the civil war nurses was Clara Barton. The revolutionary aide she was able to give to her soldiers was unrivaled. ... Because of the power given to women throughout the civil war, women carried on the power after the war ended. ... Dorothea Dix is a congressional lobbyist, which is revolutionary for her time. ... In conclusion, the Civil War transformed the nation in more way than one. ...

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The girl had no idea that once in Philadelphia she would enter into a world entirely different, that of post-revolutionary war America. ... Constitution finds its beginning in post-revolutionary America. ... But every war creates its own set of problems. ... Even before the American Revolutionary war, Americans despised taxes. During the war it was "no taxation without representation", and after the war Americans did not want to give up their hard earned money to pay off war debts. ...

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This came to be known as the Civil War. ... The struggle between these two combatants is the American Civil War, also known as the War Between the States or the War of the Rebellion. ... In both wars, Americans did fight fellow Americans; in the case of the American Revolutionary War, Patriots fought Loyalists (as well as the British); in the case of the American Civil War, Americans from the North fought Americans from the South. ... Both wars were waged in the name of unity, the American Revolutionary War for unity of the colonies of America, and the Civil War for the unity (preservatio...

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Causes of the Civil War Was slavery the only cause of the Civil War? ... Although some historians think the war was the result of political screw-ups and that the issue of slavery did not cause the war. ... Almost as many as the combined dead of all other wars from the Revolutionary War through the Vietnam War (Boritt 634)". ... "A festering unresolved issue left from the Revolutionary War was the institution of slavery. ... We had fought the Revolutionary War to be free of the English, but slavery had always been legal during that time. ...

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With the United States" debt only growing after the Revolutionary War, a plan was needed to alleviate the newly created U.S. of their serious economic problems. ... The Republicans claimed that assumption was against the ideals of the American Revolution, and that if the assumption law were to pass, the U.S. would become exactly what they had so adamantly fought against during the Revolutionary War. ... Even after the civil war, arguments of racial injustices and human rights that echo the slavery arguments of the revolutionary era have continued into the twenty-first century. ... In 1794, Was...

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Although the effects were not long-lasting, the twelve year period of Reconstruction after the Civil War was one that revolved around defining the rights and roles of newly freed blacks through revolutionary constitutional and social developments. ... The issue of slavery, which had been a major cause of the Civil War, was finally resolved through this single establishment. ... This proposal was revolutionary because it was the first time blacks were officially recognized as humans and American citizens. ... Social developments of the time produced revolutionary impact as well. The Freedman&#...

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The basis of the Civil War was to end the practice of slavery. ... Because of the different points of view between the two sections of our country, the only result they say to solve the problem was war, a war that we know of as The Civil War. ... When the Northern states gave up the last remnants of legal slavery, in the generation after the Revolution, their motives were a mix of morality, and ethics, there was also fear of a growing black population and the fact that the Revolutionary War had broken the Northern slaveowners power. ... The American Civil War had begun. ... Slavery has been ...

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Soon after the election of Abraham Lincoln, the secession of the southern states, and the fall of Fort Sumter, the Union and the Confederate states were preparing to fight what would become the bloodiest war in American history. ... Another northern state advantage was the massive number of immigrants who were ready, willing and able to accept jobs and receive training in factories; hubs of cranking out artillery, ammunition and everything required for travel, battles and a potentially long-term war. ... This allowed them to have more advanced weapons compared to the South, who were forced t...

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In the revolutionary war some rebels wished for a country where they could speak freely, have any religion, make their own rules, and determine their own taxes. ... In the civil war, which is also the war that took more Americans lives than any other, the south was fighting for the right to own slaves. ... This is the war which America suffered its worst defeat because we were fighting ourselves. Next came the first of the World Wars. American soldiers fought to preserve freedom in Europe, one hundred sixteen thousand five hundred and sixteen Americans died in that war alone. ...

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However there are certain wars that stick out as defining who we are as a people. ... First there was the Revolutionary War which the soon to be Americans threw off the yoke of an oppressive English government under the war cry, "no taxation without representation.... However, one war stands out above the rest for the United States, the Civil War. ... The Civil war was like all civil wars was fought between two factions residing a country, for this war it was the United States and the players were the Northern Union and the Southern Confederacy. ... There was no way that the South could h...

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The Civil War occurred for many reasons. ... Blacks had served in the War of 1812 and the Revolutionary War, but they had been barred from state militias since 1792. ... The Civil War began in 1861 and ended in 1865.By the end of the Civil War 186,000 blacks soldiers had served in the war. ... Reasons Why the Civil War Began. ... The End of the Civil War....

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The Articles of Confederation was approved in 1781,after the Revolutionary war was over. ... Congress was powerful in the fact that they could wage war with other nations. ... Congress declared that there would be no war between states and that criminal interstate laws would come in effect. ...

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This want for new territory, would cause boundary issues and fears to arise soon after the Revolutionary War with the fledgling government of the United States. ... Not long after the Revolutionary War, the government of the United States began to want to expand into territories that were occupied by European and Native American peoples. ... Joseph Ellis, a Thomas Jefferson historian, stated, "For Jefferson, more than any other major figure in the revolutionary generation, the West was America's future. ... One of the reasons that the War of 1812 with Britain happened was fear of other co...

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Reforms were in part due to the massive renovation the United States went under after the War of 1812. ... As Francis Grund (DOC 3) proposed, Religion assisted the reformers in their revolutionary struggle, religion made them appeal to defending their liberties. ... Reformers battled the evils of the changed society, due to the War of 1812. ... Reforms that were in part due to the massive renovation the United States went under after the War of 1812. ... Religion assisted the reformers in their revolutionary struggle, religion made them appeal to defending their liberties. ...

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The country was divided in many aspects of life during the early to mid-1800s (pre-civil war era). ... A war was looming. Not a war with a simple goal, but a war to achieve equality, preserve a nation, and create a United States of America. A United States of America was created after the victory in the Revolutionary War, but they were more of a States of America as the nation showed several cracks within society by the year 1848. ... There were many attempt to compromise to avoid a war, but these compromises only delayed for the looming war. ...

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Some of the first settlers in seventeenth century America were British revolutionaries escaping religious prejudices back home. ... In 1775, the tensions between British authorities and the new settlers lead to the Revolutionary War. ... America was a premature country formed by revolutionaries who adamantly demanded their independence from other countries, and at the same time used those experiences as a guideline. ... Even with its revolutionary energies, there was minimal progress and only an exploded burden of guilt. ...

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McPherson beautifully illustrates and explains the many reasons men fought in the Civil War. McPherson's goal was to zero in on the main reasons men enlisted during the Civil War. ... Both the Union army and the Confederate army compared the Civil War to the Revolutionary War, a time when the United States won their independence from the tyrannical England. ... Men during the Civil War would rather die in battle then live and be called a coward. ... It opened my eyes to the many different reasons why men fought in the Civil War. ...

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As the Revolutionary War broke out, Washington became the Commander in Chief of the Continental Congress. ... Abraham Lincoln served as the nation's 16th President during one of the bloodiest wars in American history, the Civil War. ... He served as a captain during the Black Hawk War, a legislator in Illinois, and a judge. ... His surprising election led to the secession of the Confederacy, which brought forth the Civil War. ... With the war continuing, Roosevelt was elected to an unprecedented third term. ...

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Before this happened in 1865, the nation was faced with three different issues after the civil war. ... Civil War (1861-65). While "some 4 million slaves gained their freedom as a result of the Union victory in the war, which left many communities in ruins and destroyed the South's plantation-based economy" (Freedmen's Bureau). ... Although the Reconstruction seemed to be doing well for Congress, after 1867, an increasing number of southern whites turned to violence in response to the revolutionary changes of Radical Reconstruction. ...

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These are only a few of the reasons the Revolutionary War was fought with Great Britain. After the war was over the American people knew what it felt like to finally be free. ... Lincoln himself was worried about what the effects of the war would bring. ... The Civil War was, and still is, a very dark point in American History. It was a war that was fought over freedom and equality, almost paralleling the war that was fought in 1776, but this time the war was with our own country. ...

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The author wanted to write a book about the actual men in the civil war instead of the war itself. ... It is also our culture to go to war with other countries (and apparently ourselves) since we have been involved in so many wars in our relatively short history. Some of these wars include: The Revolutionary War, The War of 1812, WW I, WW II, Vietnam, Persian Gulf, Desert Storm, etc. 5. ... (approximately 5-8) I learned a few new ideas about the civil war by reading this book. ... Longstreet debates with Lee over the need to fight a defensive war, but Lee decides to retreat....

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That was the time when bloody civil war was about to complete its 3 continuous year. ... From the first days of the Civil War, slaves had acted to secure their own liberty. The Emancipation Proclamation confirmed their insistence that the war for the Union must become a war for freedom. ... The only consistently revolutionary class during the period of Reconstruction was comprised of the freed slaves and those landless whites that gravitated around them. ... The only consistently revolutionary class during the period of Reconstruction was comprised of the freed slaves and those landless wh...

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With the Revolutionary war going on at the time the was a shortage of basic building materials so in his forge he created nails with scrap metal thus creating a huge profit for him and his family. ... Soon after the Revolutionary war ended he started to sell hatpins and men's walking sticks, which turned an even greater profit. ... In 1792, Eli Whitney visited the plantation of Catherine Greene, the wife of Revolutionary War general, Nathaniel Greene, near Savannah Georgia. ... This continuation of slavery by the South led to a ripple effect that can be seen as a driving force behind t...

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