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Civil War

 

            Civil war was the greatest war in American history.
             places-from Valverde, New Mexico, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. .
             More than three million Americans fought in it and more than 600,00 men.
             died in it. It was not only the immensity of the fight but the new.
             weapons, the new standards of generalship, and the strategies of.
             destruction which made the Civil War an event present ever since in the.
             American consciousness. Here are some of the crucial events of the war:.
             the firing of the first shots at Fort Sumter; the battles of Shiloh,.
             Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg; Sherman's dramatic march to the sea; the.
             surrender at Appomattox. In fact, Civil War wasn't simply the story of.
             great battles and great generals, it was also an elaborate portrait of.
             ourselves, American people- individuals and families, northerners and.
             southerners, soldiers and civilians, slaves and slaveowners, rich and.
             poor, urban and rural. Twenty years before Civil War started, South and.
             North didn't have a good relationship already and there were many issues.
             that they didn't agree on each other such as Clay's compromise, Fugitive.
             slave act, Pottawatomie massacre, etc. The Southern states supported.
             slavery because the slave population held more than 40 percent of the.
             entire population and also they needed slavery for their.
             industrialization. Therefore, if they freed all the slaves, someone would.
             predict, many whites would have no jobs and many things would be.
             up-side-down. As the result, controlling over slaves was very important.
             for the Southern. But the Northern were opponent of slavery since the.
             slavery population took less than 10 percent of the entire population and.
             Southern states were already free. Then something really happened when.
             Abraham Lincoln, a known opponent of slavery, was elected president. The.
             Southern states then decided to secede, which meant that they were leaving.
             the nation because they thought how could Lincoln be the president of the.


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