This is just a small example of the doubt and hatred that was bestowed on the African American soldiers. ... The cause of the Civil War was tension between the North and the South. ... Plantations brought in black slaves from Africa to provide most of the labor required for growing the crop. ... The South regarded the move as a declaration of war. ... The South had only about 1 million white men from 15 through 40. ...

• Word Count: 4026
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

The north and the south had been divided and didn't know how to come back together again without intervention from the government. I believe that Reconstruction helped the African-Americans get some of the freedom that equally deserved. I also believe that Reconstruction helped the north and the south reunite as a country again. ... Ku Klux Clan - The KKK was created after the Civil War as means of rebelling against the Reconstruction plans and the plans to give the African-Americans equal rights. ... It took 6 months to travel from the east coast to the west coast. ...

• Word Count: 1041
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Many of the farmers did not expect the conditions of the west, because they were so different from the east. ... In the beginning the government took no action the helping for equality among African Americans. ... One region that was greatly effected by these changes was the south. The south before and after the was was mainly known for their export of cotton goods, and slavery. ... The south's lack of industrialization, and extreme discrimination did not let them advance as a society. ...

• Word Count: 2185
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

The slave-holding interests in the South denounced this strategy as infringing upon their Constitutional rights. Southern whites believed that the emancipation of slaves would destroy the South's economy because of the alleged laziness of blacks under free labor. ... It was fading in the border states and Southern cities but was expanding in the highly profitable cotton districts of the South and Southwest. ... Sectionalism Sectionalism refers to the different economies, social structure, customs and political values of the North and South. ... The adoption of this compromise likely w...

• Word Count: 6922
• Approx Pages: 28

She was said to be the first African-American woman to deliver a public speech. ... Eventually, women were moving westward in hopes of finding greater freedom in contrast to the East. The excruciating 2,200-mile trail from the East to Oregon was one of many hardships and f...

• Word Count: 2702
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She was said to be the first African-American woman to deliver a public speech. ... Eventually, women were moving westward in hopes of finding greater freedom in contrast to the East. The excruciating 2,200-mile trail from the East to Oregon was one of many hardships and fatalit...

• Word Count: 2704
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The slave-holding interests in the South denounced this strategy as infringing upon their Constitutional rights. Southern whites believed that the emancipation of slaves would destroy the South's economy because of the alleged laziness of blacks under free labor. ... It was fading in the border states and in Southern cities, but was expanding in the highly profitable cotton districts of the South and Southwest. ... Sectionalism Sectionalism refers to the different economies, social structure, customs and political values of the North and South. Pamphleteers North and South rarely men...

• Word Count: 7511
• Approx Pages: 30
• Grade Level: High School