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 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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When war broke out in Europe in 1914 at the start of World War 1, British and French troops prepared to seize Germany's colonies in Africa." It was supposed to be the 'war to end all wars' and yet by the proxy of colonial empires, it created war where no one cared for, it dragging 2 million Africans into the conflict (www.washingtonpost.com). ... When World War 1 ended, African soldiers often received little or no compensations for lost limbs or battle injuries (www.dw.de). ... Revolutionaries after WW2 fighting for independence from colonial power branded the old colonia...

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Victors and Vanquished, The Interesting Narrative, and The Social Contract gave their readers a glimpse into what the world was like before it became modern. New resources and different cultures were being discovered by explorers that the Old World had never been aware of before. Slaves were a large...

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By definition, all slaves should make up the revolutionary class. One can easily imagine the state of mind of a warrior or any freeman whose condition through defeat in war radically changes from one day to the next, as he becomes a slave: as in classical antiquity, prisoners of war were automatically subject to being sold. ... The infantry was composed of slaves, former prisoners of war taken from outside the national territory. ... Therefore, the slave of the mother could not be a revolutionary. ... However, the alienation of the slaves of the father's household in Africa was great enou...

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Some of these tribes held war captives as slaves both before and after the arrival of the Europeans. ... Her husband was killed during a war with the Muskogees and she fell in, took his place, and finished out the war with his weapon. ... Some of the tribes also began buying African American slaves during the Revolutionary War. ... The majority of these violent Indian wars occurred in the southern United States. ... Shortly after the Civil War in 1866, a treaty was signed that granted citizenship rights to the Freedmen. ...

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He was a child when the Second Sudanese Civil War erupted. After the war Emmanuel's mother was killed by soldiers that were soldiers for the government. his father Simon became a powerful commander in the Christian Sudanese Liberation Army, fighting for the freedom of Sudan, Jal was recruited into that army, one of ten thousand child soldiers. Taj fought through two separate wars over the past ten years. ... On his journey through countless miles of desert he saw the remains of adults and children that had become a casualty of war. ... These war weapons were very large and taj could har...

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Their investment in human labour continued and grew and in 1488, the profit margins generated were so large that they almost solely funded the Christian nation's war against Islam in North Africa. ... The French Revolution lead to a huge social upheaval and the French Revolutionary wars between the new French Republic and other Monarchical European countries. ...

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Around that time Butterfield was honored with the Pulitzer Prize as a member of The New York Times team that published the Pentagon Papers, the Pentagon's secret history of the Vietnam War, in 1971. ... He goes on the record for saying that "The high homicide rates that characterize the United States really have a geographical origin in the white, rural pre-Civil War South" (Booknotes, 1989). ...

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• Grade Level: High School