The Civil War and Its Ending of Slavery


This paper is about the civil war and about how it ended slavery with the
emancipation proclamation
. I will also talk abou the physical loses of the war.


The South, overwhelmingly agricultural, produced cash crops such ascotton,
tobacco and sugarcane for export to the North or to Europe, but it depended on
the North for manufactures and for the financial and commercial services
essential to trade. Slaves were the largest single investment in the South, and
the fear of slave unrest ensured the loyalty of nonslaveholders to the economic
and social system.

To maintain peace between the Southern and Northern supporters in the
Democratic and Whig parties, political leaders tried to avoid the slavery
question. But with growing opposition in the North to the extension of slavery
into the new territories, evasion of the issue became increasingly difficult.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 temporarily settled the issue by......

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Title: The Civil War And Its Ending Of Slavery
Approximate Word Count: 1540
Approximate Pages: 7 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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