America vs Britain civil war..sometime in the past...help please!?
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First of all Americans are Brits, but are in different countries, and civil war occours in the SAME country, but I think I know what you are refering to.\n\nThe American Revolution was a revolution that ended two centuries of rule of the Thirteen Colonies by the British Empire and created the modern United States of America. The Revolutionary era was both exhilarating and disturbing–a time of progress for some, dislocation for others. The American Revolution is the series of ideas, and changes that resulted in the revolution and ensuing political separation of thirteen colonies in North America from the British Empire and the creation of the United States of America with a new political system. The American War of Independence which lasted from 1775 to 1783, was one part of the revolution, but the revolution by the Americans began before the first shot was fired at Lexington and Concord and continued after the British surrender at Yorktown. Years later, in 1818, John Adams wrote: "The Revolution was effected before the War commenced," and "The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people."\n\nHistorians usually agree that the revolutionary era began in 1763 as Britain defeated France in the French and Indian War, and the military threat to the colonies from France ended. The end of the period is usually marked by as Treaty of Paris in 1783. However, references to the "revolutionary era" sometimes stretched to 1789, when a new government under George Washington began operating.\n\nInterpretations about the effect of the revolution vary. At one end of the spectrum is the older view that the American Revolution was not "revolutionary" at all, that it did not radically transform colonial society, but simply replaced a distant government with a local one. The more recent view pioneered by historians such as Bernard Bailyn, Gordon Wood and Edmund Morgan is that the American Revolution was a unique and radical event, based on a new ideology of "republicanism" which produced deep changes that had a profound impact on world history.
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The Citizens of one county fighting each other.\nThere was a huge Civil War in the USA - Citizens from the North fought the Citizens from the South - with a tremendous loss of life.  Most of the men fighting and dying do not really understand what they are fighting for.
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In the early 1980's, I visited England with 2 buddies--one from Alabama, one from California, and myself from Pennsylvania. We apparently got off at the wrong subway stop in London. We were lost. We spotted a bobby (policeman) up the block. We asked him for directions. He spoke very fast "high English". My buddy from Alabama asked him to slow down and speak English!!! He told us that it was us bloody yanks that bastardized the Queen's English. My buddy told him that he would be speaking German if it wasn't for us "bloody yanks" saving their country in WWII. I told my buddys to calm down before he throws our bloody a&&es in jail!!!
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try "The Great War For Civilisation" by Robert Fisk.  You will need to go back further than 20 years too as the current problems are rooted in the decisions made after the first and second world wars.  This book covers other countries in the Middle East too.
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The American Civil War?\n\nThe North and The South.\n\nI believe Kentucky and Mizzou were neutral.  I also think California was in the south (not sure).\n\nEDIT:\n\nThe American Civil war was NOT fought because the south wanted slavery and the North did not.  The American Civil War was fought because the South believed they were not getting a fair shake and decided to break away from the union.  Lincoln said that was illegal and we fought a war to keep our nation whole.\n\nAbolishing slavery was a really great side effect of the war.  BTW, the Emancipation Proclomation did not free all slaves.  It only freed the slaves in states rebelling against the North.  Therefore the slave states that did not secede and fight in the CSA still had legal slavery.
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You can get information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_%281849-1865%29 for the information you are looking for.  I wont do your homework - but I will help you out (what kind of a history teacher would be then - lol)\n\nGood Luck!!!
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http://www.thinkhistory.btinternet.co.uk\n\nmy friend gave me this site...she found it for some politics work we were doing but the name kinda suggests its for history too\n\ntheres one that is www.historylearning but i dnt know if its co.uk or .com or whatever?\n\nhope ya find what you are looking for!
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no one is still alive from the civil war. in my past life i was there, i was a southrener, hiding behind a stone wall. no, i'm studing it and i am not the kind of person who is interested in social studies/ history.
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sounds like the american Revolution?  \n\nYou need to find out all the things that are good about England and being part of british empire.   Talk about loyalty to king....talk ahat bout how the "patriots" are traitors that will be hung for their treason.  (you have to embrace and see it from the perspective of the loyalists)
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i would recommend this wikipedia site.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_war\n\nhope this helps =)\n\n-unpredicktaboh-
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You are going to have to restate your question.  And which civil war are you talking about?  There have been many (not everyone on this service will assume that you are talking about the War of the Roses, like I am).
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Good job! Evidently, you've done your homework! \n\nMany aren't aware that the American Civil War was "NOT" about slavery. Nor are many aware that slaves were still being held as private property in the North during that time. Abraham Lincoln owned a slave during the war, and Union General U.S. Grant owned 4. \n\nThe war was, from the Southern standpoint, over States Rights, i.e., a state had authority over the federal government within it's own borders. And also, to defend against an illegal military invasion from the North. \n\nBut it's always the victors in war that write the history, isn't it?
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There were 2 battles here. It was also called the Battle of Manassass. It was the first land battle of the Civil war. The Union troops were inexperienced,and forced to retreat. For more info I added the link
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This is going to be just a quick summary...\nFor the most part, it was not all about slavery. The states North of the Mason-Dixon line were content with slavery in the South...the problem was the "Westward Expansion." The North wanted the new states to be free from slavery, whereas the South wanted those states to be open to slavery. There were a few compromises made years before the actual war began, however, those obviously did not work. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina announced it's leave from the Union...Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas followed. \nOn February 4th, 1861, the Confederate States of America was formed with Jefferson Davis as the president. A new constitution was drawn up. Key differences were:\n*The president and vice president were elected for six year terms whereas the North had only four years. \n*The protection of slavery in new territories was given. \n*No slave trade with Africa\n*President Davis could take a loan for $15 million for the creation of a military force of 100,000. \nPresident Davis was inaugurated February 18, 1861. \n\nPresident Lincoln for the Union said, "Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face and face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after seperation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends?Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old quesetions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend' it..." (Page 8)\nThe first shots of the Civil War were fired on April 12th, 1861 at Ft. Sumter, South Carolina. The fight lasted for thirty-four hours, and ended by the North surrendering. The war continued until April of 1865. \nAfter it was all said and done, most of the South was destroyed and the loss of lives on both ends, are up to this day, only an estimate (over 100,000). It is said, the number of Yanks and Rebels who died are greater than the loss of American lives in both World Wars, the Korean War, and the Vietiman War...all combined.\n\nI hope this has been helpful to you. Here are some other books to check out if you are really interested in the Civil War:\n-"After the Civil War" by John S. Blay\n-"The Life of Johnny Reb" by Bell I. Wiley\n-"The Life of Billy Yank" by Bell I. Wiley\n-"Embattled Courage" by Gerald F. Linderman\n-"The Civil War: Strange & Fascinating Facts" by Burke Davis
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which democratic nation and civil war are you talking about??? \nedit your question and ill be more than happy to answer
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Britain, France and Spain landed troops in 1861 near the end of a Civil War there (1857-1861) but that was in 1861...so I'm not sure if that's it.  Depends on what you mean by rallied.\n\nThis happen to be a textbook question?
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Other the usual (England, Iraq war, etc.), the only major issue I can think of is the fact that Scottish pareliment's roof almost caved in.\n\nBelow are some newspaper sites. The local internet news is always a good place to check for a countries' current concerns and issues.