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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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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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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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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This came to be known as the Civil War. These two conflicts are different but are both quite important to the formation of our country. ... One such riot took place in New York City during 1863 by anti-black Irish-Americans. An economic revolution also occurred from the Civil War. ... The American Civil War had a great impact on the American people because it was a war of values and customs; it caused many changes to take place economically, politically, and especially socially....

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During his stay with the Auld family, he asked the wife of Hugh Auld, Sophia Auld to teach him to read; she obliged and proceeded to teach him to read. ... On December 3, 1847, Douglass moved to Rochester, New York and started a newspaper called the North Star.1 It was praised by abolitionists but looked down upon by some because it was made by an ex-slave.2 At this time, Douglass was drawing away from Garrison's ideas, which were that slavery could be solved through peaceful means but Douglass believed that only through war could slavery be abolished.2 During the Civil War, Douglass als...

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The battle itself was less important than the speech." ... Gettysburg stands as the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. ... In his speech, Lincoln spoke of how the Civil War was a test of whether our nation could even survive. ... Lincoln's speech made people think about the true meaning and effect of a Civil War, and whether the country as a whole was more important than the wants of a few. ... The country is suffering, but it isn't a Civil War that is tearing us apart, it is the greed of the wealthy and the suffering of the rest of us. ...

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Griffith's three hour anti-war statement forced viewers to challenge their beliefs by documenting the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods. ... The first half of the film, which focuses on the Civil War, introduces African-Americans as being pushy and violent. ... The second part of The Birth of a Nation looks at America's Reconstruction in the post-Civil War period. Griffith wildly skews our post-Civil War history to accommodate a warning about giving African-Americans power. ... Despite Griffith's politics, what is sad is that this film accurately portrays a ...

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Lincoln's "First Inaugural Address" was during a period when our nation was divided. ... Abraham Lincoln uses figurative words of speech to encourage reflection on the Civil War to the people of Northern and Southern United States. ... This will help people understand their actions. He also uses the words "pray and "away" as a rhyme to fully express the meaning of trying to work towards the reconstruction post Civil War effects. ... Lincoln approached the public with very important matters, and made great changes possible....

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Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis were American presidents during the Civil War; Lincoln for the Union states and Davis for the Confederate states. ... If he had been leading the Southern cause and not the Northern cause, would the South have won the Civil War? ... Many things were important to the reason behind the North winning the Civil War and a lot of those reasons rest with Lincoln and how he was able to save the Union. ... While Davis was criticized for "failure to provide adequate guidance for Southern people at crucial moments during the war, was uncompromising, had an avowed hatr...

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After the civil war ended the differences between ex-confederates and Republicans were at an unstable high. While President Lincoln was in office during the war, he appointed Andrew Johnson to military governor of Tennessee because he was the only senator from a Confederate state who remained loyal to the Union throughout. ... Grant, the Fourteenth Amendment was passed in order to help deal with the many problems during the reconstruction era; such as the readmission of states into the Union, slavery and the many injustices to the black population, and instituting a stable government that wo...

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Reconstruction in the context of American history refers to the time period after the Civil War, specifically from 1865 to 1877, in which the United States began to rebuild from the pandemonium and chaotic aftermath of the Civil War. ... However, nothing comes as important as the country itself. ... During the Reconstruction period, thousands of teachers, missionaries, and philanthropists from the north helped found hundreds of schools for the blacks in the south. ... However, I believe that when it comes to a country and its people, nothing can be more important than holding the nation and ma...

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Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), known as "Honest Abe" and "The Great Emancipator" is regarded by many to be America's greatest president because of his powerful leadership during the civil war and the impact of that leadership on the moral and political character of the nation. He used his role as president to uphold the Constitution, but also to preserve, protect, and defend it during a war which, he in essence started. 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 m...

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Some people thought to leave it alone, like Southern plantation owners or any people who owned slaves. Then there were persons who opposed slavery, like Lincoln and most of the northern people. Some historians say that Civil War happened because of the issue of slavery and others think it happened because the events outlined by James Mcapherson in his article "Who Freed the Slaves?" ... Without the Civil War there would be no confiscation act, no Emancipation Proclamation, no Thirteenth Amendment and certainly no self-emancipation, and almost certainly no end of slavery for several more d...

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When President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated only 6 weeks after his inauguration, democrat Andrew Johnson became the 17th President of the United States during the nation's greatest crisis, the Civil War. ... Stanton refused to abandon his office and had Thomas arrested for attempting to exercise the duties of the Secretary of War. ... If Andrew Johnson would have been impeached it could have weakened the American peoples point of view of the Constitution and the office of the President. The impeachment of Andrew Johnson could have also interfered with the process of Reconstruction ...

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Lincoln had to make some very important decisions during the war that not only helped to win the war but also tested the Constitution, sometimes at odds with the constitution and often at odds with the ideas of his military commanders. President Lincoln's exercise of power during the war demonstrated how far the authority of the presidency could be expanded in wartime. ... On April 12, 1861 the Civil war began when Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter. ... He also put the national armories into full production, preparing the nation for the most extreme scenario of full-scale civil w...

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Confederate troops opened fire on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, and this was the opening battle of the American Civil War, causing Lincoln to call for 75,000 men for a militia. ... He suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus, which gave troops the right to search people's homes with out permission; this was a very controversial step in Lincoln's war strategy. ... The first Generals Lincoln appointed in the Civil War had fairly little success, and it was not until the appointment of U.S. ... If leading a country through a Civil War was not enough of a burden placed on Lincoln, he had t...

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These excerpts of his biographical speeches are amazingly telling of the life of an American slave during the years leading up to the civil war. ... She states on page 1037 of her Lecture delivered at the Franklin Hall that, "Methinks that were the American free people of color to turn their attention more assiduously to moral worth and intellectual improvement, this would be the result: prejudice would gradually diminish, and the whites would be compelled to say, unloose those fetters." ... Thus I chose the word "education" as my most important word. ... He also believed that if the American ...

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The First Reconstruction was a result of the Civil War and lasted until 1977. The political, social, and economic conditions after the war helped define the goals of lawmakers during the Reconstruction. ... In the post Civil War era there was a struggle for the power, each with their own ideas on how the country should go about in the reconstruction process. ... More importantly without property it would be extremely difficult to defend the rights granted to them in the Reconstruction Period. ... The Government did not yet understand the importance of economic equality in the freeing of a peop...

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The civil war was not only about slavery, but preserving the union as well. ... When Lincoln was voted into office, his most important objective was to save the country. ... The United States was at war with itself. ... He did this because the war had just started and support was meager at best. ... During his presidency there was no one more forward thinking, his resolve under the immense pressure speaks to the kind of man that he was, and the person we all should try to be. ...

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The election prompted several southern slave states to secede and later a four-year long civil war between the North and the South was triggered. ... More importantly, ending slavery was never his No.1 purpose during the presidency. The highest priority of the war for Lincoln was to save the Union. ... Then he disagreed twice with the people who considered destroying slavery the paramount object: "I do not agree with them I do not agree with them" (Lincoln, 13). ... He was further limited by the Constitution whose legitimacy and perpetuity he tried to preserve during war. ...

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In his effort to preserve the Union during the Civil War, he assumed more power than any preceding president. As a superb politician, he persuaded the people with reasoned word and thoughtful deed to look to him for leadership. He had a lasting influence on American political institutions, most importantly in setting the precedent of vigorous executive action in time of national emergency. ... But, almost immediately, Governor John Reynolds of Illinois called for volunteers to put down a rebellion of the Native American Sauk and Fox peoples led by Chief Black Hawk. ...

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Douglass was born into harsh times which gave him a feeling of courage to become this influential man and to create many new changes that still play as an important role in our daily lives. ... He wrote" a want of information concerning my age was a source of unhappiness to me even during childhood. ... These important meetings gave him braveness to become a lecturer for the Massachusetts anti-slavery society. ... The North Star became a major place where people can express their opinion. ... During the civil war, him and president Abraham Lincoln examined the poor conditions of the men and so...

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