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Reasons for the Civil War
Title: Reasons for the Civil War
Category: History
Details: Words: 2496 | Pages: 10.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Reasons for the Civil War
Thomas Jefferson once said, “Maintaining slavery was like holding a wolf by its ears. You didn’t like it, but you didn’t dare let it go.” (Civil War) Slavery was apart of this nation’s birth. It would be the deciding factor in the separation from North and South. The separation of the two would cause fear and hatred, which would eventually lead to war.
Future president, Abraham Lincoln said it best, “As a …showed first 75 words of 2496 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2496 total…as opposed to the South, where they were dependent on slavery to keep their plantations going. With further abolition movements in the North, the South became increasingly fearful that the North would take away their property and their way of life. Later, with the election of Lincoln, that fear was at its peak and the inevitability of war hit the troops at Fort Sumter and soon the citizens living abroad in these two separate nations.
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