American Civil War

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Civil, War, english, story, History, northern, southern state, 1861, 1865, slavery, abolitionists

Résumé du document

The American Civil War was a conflict between the Northern states and the Southern states. The war raged for four years (1861-65) and was marked by some of the bloodiest battles of modern history.
The economic situation was very different between the North and the South. There was an industrial revolution in the 1800's in the North, which turned to manufacturing. But in the South, the first activity was farming. Southern plantations (cotton, tobacco...) used African-American slaves to work and to profit of this free work. In the North, people began to regard slavery as wrong, and abolitionists, anti-slavery reformers, began to preach against of slavery. The South felt that their way of life was being threatened.

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[...] Introduction: The American Civil War was a conflict between the Northern states and the Southern states. The war raged for four years (1861–65) and was marked by some of the bloodiest battles of modern history. The economic situation was very different between the North and the South. There was an industrial revolution in the 1800's in the North, which turned to manufacturing. But in the South, the first activity was farming. Southern plantations (cotton, tobacco ) used African-American slaves to work and to profit of this free work. [...]

[...] The South enforced its efforts but in the 1865 the North won the Civil War. III The toll of the War The Civil War lasted in 1865 and was finally won by the North after a terrible cost in lives on both sides including the life of President Lincoln. As the North celebrated its victory, Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, a Southern sympathizer. The America became after the War the United State of America, a federal government, which wants an equal development in the whole territories and provoke an industrial boom in the South, not to stay farmers Three Amendments were published to the U.S. [...]

[...] South Carolina went away the United States. Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed South Carolina in leaving the Union. The Civil War had begun. Originally, the North began the war to preserve the Union, not to end slavery. But President Lincoln became convinced that abolitionism of slavery was necessary to win the war. II The Story of the War The American Civil War raged for four years from 1861 to 1865 and was marked by some of the bloodiest battles of modern history. [...]