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slavery. The North believed slavery was inhumane and cruel. The South was fighting for the expansion of slavery and defended their belief as “positive good”. The influence of abolition literature inspired many to turn against slavery and the election of 1860 angered the South. Abolition Literature was significant in the fight against slavery. Abolitionists used novels, speeches, narratives and other forms of literature to spread…

In 1860s, because the fact of southern states wanted to remain the slavery stable while the North desired to abolish the slavery. Meanwhile Abraham Lincoln led the Union and fought with the Confederacy whose commander was Jefferson Davis. The goal of union was to protect the unity, but many armies were controlled by South, also they owned wide land. It seemed difficult for the Union troops to win the Confederacy drastically. Moreover, the strategy of Confederacy was only to defense, controlled…

An Economic Power Slavery was extremely important in order to grow the nation’s economy throughout the nineteenth-century. Slaves in the nineteenth-century would transform from primarily agricultural to a more industrial way of generating their income through cotton textile factories. These factories were the first factories of the industrial system, and were pivotal to changing the way people worked. Despite this, cheap cotton is the reason why these factories were possible. Thus, slavery had…

As I watched the video, I felt shocked. During the Civil War the U.S. confronted a growing population of refugees and a humanitarian crisis. The refugees of the Civil War were predominantly slaves - and increasingly women and children - who fled slavery hoping to get to Union military lines in the South. By the end of the Civil War, tens of thousands had passed through, and many died in, refugee camps. In today's language, they constituted an internally displaced population and simultaneously, a…

Between 1800 and 1860, the life of the northerners and the southerners differed drastically. The extreme differences lead to such severe tensions that caused the two regions of America to loath one another’s presence. Due to theses tensions ¬¬the north and the south made decisions that satisfied their lives concerning the process of the economic, and political systems. Eventually, as the decisions were being made the closer the nation was leading to the Civil War. The North and the South…

Before 1860s, many Native Americans moved west in a journey called the Trail of Tears. Many Native Americans in the west died due to starvation and disease. The Native American population continued to dwindle. As war and expansion continued throughout history, Native Americans began submit to white rule. Native Americans in the west went from violently resisting whites in the 1860s to appeasing whites by the Reconstruction period because of the Civil War. In the 1860s, Native Americans in the…

Railroad development was paramount in shaping westward expansion and urban growth from 1860 to 1890. Conversely, rapid growth of cities in eastern America eventually led to overproduction of railways based on privatized industry and government subsidies. This symbiotic relationship fueled industrialization and rapid economic recovery for a country so desperately in need. In 1860 railroads hardly expanded further west than St. Louis. Many Americans believed the west to be comprised of nothing…

The twelfth chapter, “Cotton Is King: The Antebellum South, 1800 - 1860”, features the labor-intensive processes of cotton production. Moreover, details the significance of cotton to the Atlantic and American antebellum economy. Apart from these objects, the chapter, more importantly, highlights all aspects of slavery within the United States in the vicinity of the 1800’s to the 1860’s (Corbett et al. 12.1). During the Antebellum period, the South grew cotton and it became a lucrative crop.…

The Reconstruction Era was when North America fought for the blacks living in the South. African Americans were brought into the united states and held slaves for wealthy American families. They were denied their rights and freedom. Abraham Lincoln started the Civil War and was the first one to stand up for the Negro community. Abraham Lincoln was the one that built the “new south”, although he successfully made a new name for the south, equality was not happening. Blacks were still being…

the rights of African Americans. Events such as the election of 1860, and Dred Scott vs. Sanford led to the Civil War . The main reason the Civil War happened was because the North and South couldn't agree on slavery. The South believed that they had the right to own enslaved African Americans, while Northerners believed that it was immoral that a human be enslaved by another human. When Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860, it angered the South. They felt that it was unfair for an…