what was the civil war about? and was slavery over after this or not?
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The US civil war was about states' rights and how the federal government trampled all over them.  The slavery issue was added by the Union to keep the British out of the war because they sided with the South.
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Well, the civil war didn't end the attrocities being committed against blacks being treated as sub-humans.  I would hope that everyone would be educated about civil liberties which have been perverted by the left wing in this country.\n\nSamuel Adams said:\n\nAmong the rights of the colonists are these:\nfirst, to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; along with the right to support and defend them.\n\nCivil rights is one indicator of how civilized a nation is. Abortion is the most barbaric act against an innocent and helpless human being. In reality, and when compared to slavery, we are far more barbaric than 50 and 200 years ago.\n\nCivility and etiquette are not part of modern society. People of todays generation have perverted natural law and the meaning of civil liberties to mean selfishness. It is appauling and disgusting. When civil liberty is perverted to mean, "I can do whatever I want and have a right to privacy." we have totally ignored our civic duties. \n\nThis is a GOOD QUESTION! Civil rights go in a sequential order as Samuel Adams (father of the American revolution) expressed to the continental congress in 1772.  The recent Supreme Court decision is an example of how we are regressing in civil liberties. Quite often those who want to keep abortion legal would belittle what was written 200 years ago as if it has no relevance.  In effect, they want to play God!
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The context of your question is very broad.\n\nSlavery has existed since the beginning of human history and exists to this very day in certain parts of the world.\n\nIn America, slavery (which President Bush observed recently was America's birth defect) was present at the founding of the nation, and unfortunately incorporated into the Constitution.\n\nOfficially, President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation freed most of the slaves in the Confederate states.  It officially ended at the cessation of hostilities in the Civil War, but technically in 1867 once new legislatures in the newly emancipated South recognized the Federal mandate.\n\nBelow is a reference link to slavery in the 21st century.
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eX-Slaves, which was the result of the war, as all of the slaves were freed by the thirteenth amendment.\n\ndiXie, which was the name of the southern states.  It especially referred to the southeastern states that had slavery before the civil war\n\nappomattoX Court House in Virginia where Lee was cornered by the Northern troops that captured Richmond.  Finally, in the April of 1865, he surrendered to Grant and the war ended.  Grant gave the Confederates very generous terms of surrender as the hungry Southerners were allowed to keep their own horses for spring plowing.
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My first thought was Nero, good choice. As for not listening to the facts, I'm really not sure what our conservative friends are referring to. People that refer to Abraham Lincoln "starting" the Civil War need to get their facts straight. Lincoln's goal in the Civil War was to keep the Union strong and together. The war was "started" by the Confederacy with the bombing of Fort Sumpter.
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There are several.  The main theme is the struggle between freedom and slavery.  \n\nThese links should help.  Good luck with your project.
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They felt that the North was oppressing their point of veiw and not allowing them to keep slavery leagal. The Congress was practiaclly deadlocked for about 20 years before the civil war and nothing ever got done. When Lincoln got elected on the promise of freeing the slaves the South knew the tables had turned government wise and decided to fight it out.
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In the 1840s things started heating up between North and South over general states' rights against the rights of the federal government. The issues adressed generally dealt immediatly with slaves. New states admitted to the Union had to be judged as "slave states" (slaves allowed) or "free states" (slavery prohibited). \n\nBoth sides wanted new states to be whichever side they favored because it would give them more legislative power in the US Congress. This led to bloodshed in many areas, particularly in Kansas, which became known as "Bloody Kansas". \n\nIn 1861, South Carolina seceded from the Union (said they werent part of the US any more) and started seizing federal property, including arms and munitions. \n\nOther states started seceding as well. Soon the seceded states formed what they called the "Confederate States of America", which came to be headed by Jefferson Davis as President. They attacked Fort Sumner in South Carolina and seized the fort, capturing it's inhabitants. This was treason.\n\nAbraham Lincoln (President of the US) immediatly called for 75,000 troops to put down the uprising. Then the Civil War started, eventually involving millions of troops. 600,000 men eventually died in the conflict, and the US was shattered for decades after the war. Remember, this war was fought to unite the Union, NOT for slavery. In fact, slavery was only addressed in 1862 when Lincoln set forth the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves in the Confederate states. By 1863 there were armed black soldiers in Union armies, serving with distinction. In 1865 the CSA tried to use black troops, but they were destroyed before the plan could be implemented.\n\nIn 1865 the final Confederate forces surrendered (General Johnston was the last to surrender, but with the surrender of General Robert E. Lee the war was pretty much over). Richmond, VA, the Confederate capital, was seized. \n\nLincoln began steps to rebuild and reunite the US. He planned to be kind to the newly reunited South and not punish them for seceding. Before he could start, he was killed by a man named John Wilkes Booth. \n\nThe years following became years of anger and hate for Southerners. The North oppressed and punished Southern insurrection with high taxes and legal oversight. This period became known as Reconstruction, and it really only ended around the 1970s, one century after it started.\n\nHope I helped,\nThe Wise One\n\nP.S. For more information check out http://www.wikipedia.com\nThey are pretty good, but it's better to read books...however that takes more time than I think you want to spend.
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Woe.....hey....why stop at WWI .....how 'bout the civil war. The revolutionary war.
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you need to define the parameters of Slavery.  Do you mean during the anti-bellum period? Do you mean just in the years between the Civil war 1861-1865? Do you mena just in America or around the World.  Slavery is as Old as civilzation.  \n\nIf you are asking for a reference during America's history of salvery and defining the terms from the orginal colonies up until the immaciapation proclamation including the entire Slave trade industry, then the numbers are phenomial.  \n\nAre you just asking How many Black American Slaves that resided in the South Died or are you asking about the entire slave trade from Africa through West Indies up to the southern colonies?\n\nRedefine your question, and you can educate yourself by doing Yahoo or Google or Ask Jeeves searchs about the American Slave trade.
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Economics...that's actually what the Civil War boiled down to, as well.  The Northern States had long since embraced the technological advances of their day (hence their having the time to stand back and see how reprehensible slavery was)  The South was still pretty dependent on physical slave labor, and didn't really embrace technologies as readily.  But even if the south had won that war, slavery would have gone away eventually because it would have simply become too expensive compared to the technology...
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Yes it was a justified war.  There were two incompatible ways of life fighting for control of the Nation.  The non-slave states were resentful of southerners disproportionate control of government and constant push to enforce slave-holding rights in the North. Although the concept of freeing southern slaves was not considered  until the war was begun, the northern peoples vehemence in the belief that there should be no expansion of slavery was very much a cause of the war.\n\n The South believed it had a superior economy and culture and feared that the Northern states would damage or destroy that life.\nThe Nation became Industrialized and Free of Slavery.\n\nIt also cemented the concept that the UNITED STATES was a single entity, and not a collection of States.
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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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The origins of the American Civil War lay in the complex issues of slavery, politics, disagreements over the scope of States' rights, Manifest Destiny, sectionalism, economic competition, modernization, and competing nationalisms of the Antebellum period. Although there is little disagreement among historians on the details of the events that led to war, there is disagreement on exactly what caused what and the relative importance. There is no consensus on whether the war could have been avoided, or if it should have been avoided.
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Ok homework question right?????c'mon dont lie.\nOk here it is in a nut shell,\nthe south and north were at odds with each other,some of this was on slavery but most of it was on the economical ideas on where Gov't should place the nations money and interests.\nThe north had more seats in congress at this time(per capita of how many voting persons per state there were living in them)since the north had more voting persons in them they held more congressional seats in the Gov't,while the sourthern part of the United States had fewer people(that could vote)in them giving them less representation in the senate and congress.So the the southerm states came up with an idea of using the number of slaves to get them more house seats but not representing them as a voting population(no rights etc)this was seen as an outrage by the north and the abolisionists in the northern states so the  resentments of north and south increased to a point of attack(Ft.Sumtner) in the south which was the start of the civil war.slavery only became an issue after the fact..but I believe this is what you should be skimming through in your history books and what your teacher is looking for
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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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they wanted to stop the expansion of slavery. this led 2 the confederacy 'cause the south "needed" their slaves. and that led 2 the Civil War. Lincoln did the Emancipation Proclamation to make this war officially about slavery. i have no internet sources about this, i'm just mad sick at history