1.Significant causes of the U.S Civil War oSlavery was a growing moral issue in the north, versus its defense and expansion in the south oConstitutional disputes over the nature of the federal Union and state rights oEconomic differences between the industrialized north and the agricultural south over such issues as tariffs, banking and internal improvements oPolitical blunder and extremism 2.Key People in the Union and the Confederacy oLee: Commanding the Army of N. Virginia, …
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…Grants administration. 12.Compromise of 1877: As a result of the electoral vote from the election of 1876, Congress created a 15-member bipartisan commission, on January 29, 1877, to resolve the dispute concerning the electoral votes between Tilden and Hayes. The committee consisted of five Democrats, five Republicans, and five Supreme Court justices. Hayes was unanimously awarded the electoral votes from Oregon and South Carolina and the ones from Louisiana by a commission vote of 8 to 7. (ended the Civil War)