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A 4 page discussion of the changes which occurred in the years preceding, during, and following the Civil War. The author notes that these changes were not related solely to the issues surrounding slavery but included as well concerns over state verses federal control. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPCivWsc.rtf
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The Civil War ripped at every thread which composed the fabric of this country. Although this war is
remembered as having erupted over the issues of slavery alone, in reality the causes behind this devastating affair were much more complex. Those causes interacted with the warfare itself
to dramatically change the social and the political life in both the North and the South. In actuality, social and political life in the United States had begun to
change even before the outbreak of the war itself. The war with Mexico spanning between 1846 and 1848 and the Secession Crisis of November 1860 through April 1861 had
resulted in considerable turmoil both in the political and the domestic arenas of the young nation. Each of these larger factors encompassed many subcomponents such as the annexation of
Texas, the Wilmot proviso, expansionism, the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the Presidential election of 1860 and each of these subcomponents had sent their own reverberations through American society.
The issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation, however, would shake the very foundations upon which the country had been built. Missouri
asked for admission to the Union in 1817. Because she was a slave state this caused considerable disagreement between those who opposed slavery and those who upheld it because
her addition threatened to tip the then even balance of slave states and free states. A compromise was worked out regarding the admission of Missouri to the Union.
The Missouri compromise allowed Missouri in as a slave state while at the same time allowing another state, Maine, in as a free state. This compromise also specified that
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