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Lawrence R. Tenzer,White slavery and the civil war
... . Tenzer analyzes the prevailing scientific defenses of slavery and notes that people like ... of slavery into the western territories and thus was a significant cause of the Civil War. Tenzer emphatically states that the possibility of white slavery ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars
An essay that explains the effects of the cotton gin on the breakout of the civil war.
... slavery was backward, inefficient, and socially degrading and must not be allowed to expand. Southern spokesmen responded with elaborate arguments in defense of slavery ... slavery in the rest of the New World, which depended on the continued importation of ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars
First Two Years of Civil War, 1861-1862
... of slavery, which dates back during early colonial times. During the American Revolution, all men were supposedly have been created equal but slavery ... the First Battle of Bull Run. Their defense was broken by the likes of General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. ...
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Famous people of the Civil War.
... a good spokesman for slavery and Southern rights. For the last years of his life he defended the right of slavery to go into ... deep south or the west of the Mississippi River. When he retired he wrote books about the defense of the South and about himself ...
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Land of the Free Why did the majority of slaves, specifically blacks, side with Britain during and after the American Revolution?
... slavery over many different periods of American history but does go into detail about the problem of slavery ...
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Causes of the Civil War
... expansion of slavery as a violation of their constitutional right to take/use property as they wished. The Compromise of ... slavery. Ah, slavery, the growing moral issue in the North versus the defensive reason in the South. Slavery, the underlying issue of ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars
In a complete essay, describe the events that lead up to the start of the civil war.
... set of political events. At the root of all of the problems was the institution of slavery, ... of the slaves. This caused many of the Southern states to implement plans for more effective militias for internal defense. While some in the North hated slavery ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars
US Civil War, 40 years of intense conflict between the north and the south
... of popular sovereignty would be applied there, permiting the teritorial legislatres to decide the status of slavery when they applied for statehood. Inspite of the compromis of ... enjoyed a certain advantage in doing defensive operations on familiar land. If ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars
The causes of the civil war
... sudden and violent end of slavery had consequences upon the South directly and incidentally a series of unfortunate happenings which no ... slavery was far from being the sole cause of the long conflict. Neither its destruction on the one hand, nor its defense ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars
Southern Women's Roles and how they Change as a Result of the Civil War
... of slavery itself. Women were left on the plantation all alone, which resulted of many of them writing about how they felt defenseless and afraid, not of ... Confederate spies. Other armed themselves for self-defense and even took target practice. While there ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars