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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
The Civil War between the United States and the Confederacy was fought over the issue of enslavement. Slavery was the ...
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Causes of the Civil War
More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak ... A key issue was states' rights. The Southern states wanted to assert their authority over the federal government ...
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Southern secession and the outbreak of the Civil War
The South did not want Lincoln to be the President. At a meeting in the town of Montgomery, Alabama they formed a new government called the Confederate States of America.
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Civil War and Agrarian Unrest
Between 1861 and 1865, both the Confederate South and Southern Italy underwent dramatic processes of nation-building, with the creation of the Confederate States of America and ... the Confederacy in ...
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Civil War Toll Much Worse in Confederate States, New Estimates Show
The deadliest conflict in American history, the Civil War, also had some of its worst ... also suggested that the Confederate states fared much worse than the Union, with a mortality rate more ...
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GUEST APPEARANCE: A Hobart student, Christmas, and the 'Lost Cause'
As Christmastime approaches, it is appropriate to recover the surprising role of a Hobart College (as HWS was known in the ...
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The Civil War
37 —Abraham Lincoln The Civil War was about slavery, although both sides sometimes pretended that it was not. The southern states feared that the new Republican Party, led by President Abraham ...