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Slavery and the Civil War, 2008.
An analysis of the relationship between the institution of slavery and the outbreak and course of the Civil War.
1,209 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 41.95
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The paper discusses how slavery was a burning issue between the North and the South that led to the outbreak of the Civil War. The paper explains that the North won and despite several stumbling blocks, slavery was abolished and made illegal. The paper shows how the institution of slavery and the Civil War made it possible for a young nation such as the United States to settle their differences. The paper concludes that the course of the Civil War facilitated understanding and cooperation, which eventually lead to a United States of America truly united in nurturing freedom, justice and democracy.
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"The history of the United States as a nation is filled with greatness and stories of heroism and altruistic endeavors. It is a nation founded on freedom, justice and democracy, and whose independence was made possible only through the spilling of the bloods of its sons and daughters. Despite the glorious and positively uplifting history of the great American nation, there are also dark shades and telling tales of how this nation evolved into what it is now. Pivotal amongst the history of the United States is the Civil War that lasted from 1861 to 1867."
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Slavery and the Civil War, 2007.
An analysis of the relationship between slavery and the American Civil War.
985 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 34.95
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This paper contends that there is a direct relationship between the institution of slavery and the American Civil War and that slavery was one of many economic and political rifts that existed between the southern and northern states. It attempts to determine whether slavery was indeed a primary cause of the civil war or whether it was the failure of its legal protection by the central government that left the south vulnerable and the north at a disadvantage.
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"When seeking a valid and holistic argument for the causes of the civil war one must look deeper and truly analyze the reasons why governments and people usually make changes, and they are rarely altruistic and progressive. Politics and economics are the usual impetuous for social change, and human rights and a better world are usually adjuncts to such issues. In the case of the reasons for the civil war, in short of seeming to simplistic the issue was not so much the condition of the slave, the institution of slavery but the economics of it. Though slavery is the commonly understood impetus for the war, it is not the only reason, as it should be viewed more along the lines of seeing slavery as one of many economic and political rifts that existed between the southern and northern states."
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Slavery and the Civil War, 2007.
This paper focuses on the issue of slavery and looks at its connection to the Civil War.
1,427 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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In this article, the writer discusses that slavery developed in North America during Colonial times. The writer notes that a year before the Mayflower landed in Massachusetts, English colonialists brought slaves to Virginia. The writer points out that they came because during this age of mercantilism, Europeans believed that the best way for countries to acquire wealth was to colonize and exploit the colonized country for its resources, such as gold, silver, furs, fish, timber, tobacco, sugar and rice. The writer notes that all of these resources required labor and industry, and often colonialists enslaved the indigenous people in the country they were exploiting. The writer then looks at the issue of slavery as it relates to the Civil War.
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"As time went on, the focus of American justification shifted from the religion of the person to the color of the person. At first, slaves had a chance to become free if they converted to Christianity, gave particularly meritorious service to the master, or were able to buy themselves out. But as the religious reasons for enslaving them faded over time, race became the deciding factor for who could be a slave. Black Africans were slaves. White people owned them as chattel, and blacks were property. The slaves' whole life was about work. That was their reason for existing in the slave-owner's point of view. They did all the dirty work, the nasty jobs, and everything that was dangerous. This was particularly true in the South where the whole economy rested on free labor."
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The Economic Role of Slavery During the Civil War, 2001.
This paper examines the correlations between slavery, economics, and the Civil War.
2,640 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 79.95
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This paper shows how the study of the economics surrounding slavery can give a better understanding of the issues surrounding both slavery and the Civil War. Topics covered include the origins of slavery, opposing views on slavery, the and the economic effectiveness of slavery.
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"Slavery and the civil war are very complex economic and historical issues. Many prominent Economic Historians view the institution of slavery vastly different from one another. With the difference in views also comes opposing opinions on whether or not the Civil War was actually needed to end the practice of slavery. While it is impossible to truly know what would have happened had events been different surrounding the American Civil War, it is possible to learn about the differences in opinions. Examining the origins of slavery, the opposing views of slavery, and the economics of the civil war can lend a clearer picture of this time frame"
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Slavery, the Civil War and the Preservation of the Union, 2002.
This paper examines the enormous part the issue of slavery played in the American Civil War.
2,620 words (approx. 10.5 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 78.95
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This paper looks at the slave communities which were formed throughout the American South from the time that slaves were brought from Africa in the seventeenth century. It describes the role religion played in keeping these communities together and the belief and values it instilled in the slaves who were otherwize considered property. The paper traces the politicalization of slavery from the time 1818 when Missouri applied to join the American Union until the outbreak of the Civil War. It shows that above all, Abraham Lincoln was more concerned with the preservation of the Union than the abolition of slavery and after the Civil War, his efforts were directed in joining the States into a Union once more.
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"However, the more important issue was what slavery meant, whether it was in sync with the ideals set forth in the nation?s Constitution. The secessionists were perhaps partially right in stating that the United States was a voluntary union of states, but that initial agreement was a contract where states declared that they agreed on a common set of principles and ideals in exchange for being a part of the larger union and the protections and benefits that membership provides. When the United States was originally formed, the individual states agreed on a common Constitution that stated all men to be equal. While slavery had already been established, more and more Americans grew to believe that it was in direct contradiction with the ideals upon which the nation was founded and that initial agreement among states provided for such redefinition and growth through the ability to amend and change the Constitution itself."
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Slavery and the Civil War, 2005.
An examination of the causes that precipitated the Civil War.
3,220 words (approx. 12.9 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 111.95
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This examination of the causes that precipitated the Civil War provides the viewpoints of a variety of historians. In the analysis, the author argues that though slavery was, indeed, one of the motivations leading to Civil War, economic and political tensions were of even greater importance and are often overshadowed by historian's focus on slavery as the main issue.
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"A number of factors combined to lead the United states firmly along the path to civil war in the decades between and when war began. Those factors included economic political and cultural variables that effectively divided ..."
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The Civil War & Slavery, 2006.
A review of the issues of slavery and their impact on the causes of the American Civil War.
879 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 31.95
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This paper traces the historical relationship between the development of the institution of slavery and the outbreak of the Civil War. The paper analyzes the relationship between the two processes and outlines some other factors responsible for the conflict, as well as their relationship with slavery.
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Slavery and the U.S. Constitution
The Contrasting Economies of the North and South
Subsequent Compromises
Other Causes of the Civil War
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"In the initial years after independence, the Southern states sought to counter the growing political influence of the North by attempting to add more 'slave states' into the Union. This was opposed by the Northern states that wanted to contain the spread of slavery in other states. Thus, when Missouri, a slave-holding region applied for entry in the Union in 1918, the north only agreed to its entry with a compromise that allowed the simultaneous entry of a new 'free' state of Maine and prohibition of slavery in the territories north of 36o 30' latitude (Spicer 2004). When more territories were acquired by the US as a result of the Mexican Wars, another uneasy 'Compromise Measure of 1850' was reached that admitted California as a 'free state' and allowed the rest of the states, i.e., Texas, New Mexico and Arizona to decide for themselves whether to permit slavery or not. The tensions between the North and the South went up another notch when the Senate passed the 'Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854' which repealed the prohibition of slavery in the territories north of 36o 30' latitude previously agreed in the 'Missouri Compromise.' In reaction to the repealing of the Missouri Compromise, antislavery groups formed a new party (called the Republican Party ) that was committed to containing slavery (Gallagher, 2006)."
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Civil War and Slavery, 2002.
A brief discussion of the effects of the American Civil War on slavery.
765 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 27.95
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This paper debates whether the Civil War really effectively liberated blacks in anything more than name. It discusses the consequences of the Civil War on the Southern agricultural industry - showing that the institution of slavery may have been abolished but was still necessary in practice to continue farming in the pre-war manner.
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"No one debates that slavery in the Southern United States was a terrible and inhumane practice. It was clearly unconscionable and horrible and we, undoubtedly, continue to feel the effects of this terrible and horrible institution in multiple ways even up to this very day. The effects of the American Civil War, however, were certainly just as terrible and every bit as pronounced. More Americans died in the American Civil War than in any American war before or after (?American War Deaths?), and it terrible effects rocked the nation and brought it to the very brink of collapse. The terrible possibility to consider, then, is what if all of these lives could have been sparred? American slavery was an economic institution that, like any other one, was based on the laws of supply and demand. Southern American plantations were agricultural centers that could only turn a profit through intense labor that required many hands tilling the fields in order to raise cash crops like tobacco and cotton successful."
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The Civil War and Slavery, 2002.
A study of slavery as a central theme during the Civil War.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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This essay explains why slavery was the central issue that prompted the events surrounding the civil war, as well as shows how slavery was central to economic issues that alone would not have been sufficient to instigate the war.
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The Pre Civil War Republicans in Literature, 1995.
This study compares pre-Civil War Republicans' indictment of slavery, slaveholding society, and the South, as presented in Eric Foner's "Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War", with Harriet Beecher Stow
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 2 sources, $ 79.95
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"This study will compare and contrast the Republicans' indictment of slavery, slaveholding society, and the South, as presented in Eric Foner's "Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War", with Harriet Beecher Stowe's indictment of the same entities in her novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin". The essential position of the study is that the Republicans' indictment is based on practical, pragmatic, and economic grounds, while Stowe's indictment is based on ethics, religion and passion.
It will be the additional argument of the study that racism, religion and "small-r" republican ideology played differing roles, with these differences in part shaped by gender contrasts. That is, Stowe's womanhood, it can be fairly argued, allowed her to consider the ethical and religious issues involved in slavery."
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Eugene Genovese and the Civil War, 1994.
A critique of the American historian's methodology and humanistic-Marxist theories on the causes of racism, slavery and the Civil War.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 15 sources, $ 79.95
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"Interpretations of the Causes of the American Civil War
Introduction
This research discusses the views of Eugene Genovese, American historian, on the causes of the American Civil War. Included in this research also is information concerning Genovese and his methodological approach to the interpretation of history.
Eugene Genovese
Eugene Genovese was born in Brooklyn in 1930. Genovese earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Brooklyn College in 1953, and his doctorate at Columbia University in 1959. Genovese makes his permanent home in Atlanta in the heart of the American South that is the focus of his writing.
Eugene Genovese is Distinguished Professor of the Arts and..."
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The American Civil War, 2006.
A review of the American civil war, the events leading up to the civil war and the results.
2,480 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 75.95
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This paper discusses the American civil war and a variety of issues such as political tension, nativism, geography, demography, immigration, legal concerns, inscription and economy. These issues, together with the issue of slavery, quickly divided the country into two.
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"The American Civil War posited the Confederate States of America against the northern states tied together as the Union, throwing all of the border states into new sociopolitical angst. While the war began officially in 1861, after the eleven southern states' pronouncement of secession the previous year, the real problems had already taken control of the country years earlier. Before the ignition of bloody battle, the American nation was already divided geographically, highlighting the Northeast, Upper South, and Deep South, in the newly posited "slave states" and "free states." While moral opposition to slavery had long existed, the independence of the states and the economic necessity of cheap labor further distinguished the already divergent economies and societies between the states that characterized the mid-nineteenth century. Sectionalism boomed, and the only legal basis for discussion between the regionalized northern Union and southern Confederacy was the Constitution. "
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Political, Economic and Social Causes of the Civil War, 2002.
A study of the causes of Civil War, focusing on political, economic and social factors causes rather than the issue of Slavery.
2,244 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 69.95
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This paper studies the causes of the American Civil War. While most historians maintain that slavery was the main cause of the war, this paper argues that slavery was only responsible to a certain extent and that there were complex political and economic factors which played an important role in the Civil War. The writer discusses the South's waning ability to maintain its army of slaves and asserts that the North's growing industrial power also fueled the conflict. Political factors, including the issue of equal representation in the Congress and states? autonomy, are considered as possible causes of the war in this paper.
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"Civil war is the most momentous and crucial period in the history of America. Not only did this war bring an end to centuries of slavery in the country but also gave way to numerous social and political changes. The country had already been torn by the negative trend in race relations and numerous cases of slave uprisings were taking their toll on the country?s political and social structure. While slavery is cited as the most common cause of the Civil War, it is believed that there were several other factors involved. In other words, though slavery was the major cause it was certainly not the only cause. Civil war and abolition of slavery have become synonymous terms as the former led to the latter. But still some historians maintain that slavery has been turned into a too convenient excuse in connection with the Civil War."
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The Civil War, 2002.
A review of Britain's involvement in the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery.
2,150 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 80.95
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A paper detailing the British involvement in the American Civil War and the subsequent effects. Speculations on the fate of the South had the British maintained their support is included and well as the more political (as apposed to humanitarian) reasons Lincoln abolished slavery.
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The Civil War Centennial 1961-1965, 2004.
This paper discusses that the Civil War Centennial observance, during the height of the civil rights struggle of the 1960s, further galvanized the conflict between the ?black and white? racial groups, especially in the South.
1,240 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper explains that the Civil War carries a strong symbolic significance. Among Southern whites, many tend to identify culturally with the ?Southern identity? and the defeat of the Confederacy; among black citizens the Civil War brings an even stronger emotional and ideological reaction because they consider the war to be the pivotal struggle to end slavery in the United States. The author relates that, perhaps, the event, which most strongly symbolizes the reaction of ?culturally Southern? whites, was that surrounding the ?raising of the Confederate flag? over the Capitol building in South Carolina. The paper questions whether the ?celebration? of the Civil War was a good idea, given the concept of ?celebrating? a war as necessarily divisive as a civil war, and given its affect on the social, racial, and political climate of the 1960s.
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"That the South chose to ?unfurl? the confederate flag, as the symbol of the meaning of the Civil War as it applied to their ?identity,? and to bar black delegates from participating in the Centennial. The Northern states chose to reenact battles (Kansas, Wisconsin, and Missouri) among others, embark on ?educational programs? and stage parades, giving some credence to the widely held notion that the Centennial was ?more a Northern than a Southern celebration.? Further, in addition to the divisive racial controversies that emerged in the Centennial, many believed that the Centennial ?demonstrated the increasing commercialization and trivialization of the memory of the war.? "
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