Civil War Was the American Civil War caused by slavery or economics? ... As the south grew into a major agriculture industry, they needed more and more slaves to help produce their goods. ... This would help account for the south's representation in congress. ... The North didn't agree with slavery and resisted this law, which only caused more conflict in the nation. ... But many free states in the Union passed personal liberty laws in an effort to help the slaves escape. ...

• Word Count: 1668
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Yet this was all settled with the Missouri compromise, which said that anything above Missouri (except for Missouri) would not allow slavery. ... He was from the South and knew southern economics but he also had to keep the rest of the countries needs in the mind. ... In the end, it was the Jacksonian policy which help reformed America's economy and financial problems. ...

• Word Count: 1017
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• Grade Level: High School

Individuals discussed within the book provided leadership and were associated with the state of Ohio throughout their lives. ... Vallandigham's anti-abolition and anti- New England views received the applause of three elements of Ohio's diverse population: Irish-Americans and German-Americans who feared emancipation would release a flood of cheap and competitive labor upon their communities and southern "uplanders" that brought their anti-Negro prejudices with them.# As a supporter of state's rights and slavery, he helped form the Peace Democrats. ... He wanted the Union of...

• Word Count: 1748
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• Grade Level: High School

There were also too many people you had to deal with. ... Stampp's next chapter deals with the accomplishment of the radicals. ... What really surprised me with this chapter was it jumped around. ... They disagreed on nearly everything from politics to economics. ... These differences pulled the party together and helped them appear united. ...

• Word Count: 1982
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• Grade Level: High School

This agricultural society left the South with a stronger reliability on the institution of slavery than the more modern Northern states. ... Northerners abuse and denounce slavery and slaveholders, yet our slaves are clothed with Northern manufactured goods, have Northern hats and shoes, work with Northern hoes, ploughs, and other implements . . . ... his son is educated at a Northern college, his daughter receives the finishing polish at a Northern seminary; his doctor graduates at a Northern medical college, his schools are furnished with Northern teachers, and he is...

• Word Count: 2247
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Economics and society factored in the conflict, as well, with the hardness of the taxes and the settler's need for a fair leader. ... With a high tariff, it protected the Northern manufacturer. ... Slaves were used in the South as helpers in the fields in the cultivation of tobacco, rice, and indigo, as well as many other jobs. ... Southerners compared slavery with the wage-slave system of the North. ... Now with all these views the North set out on its quest for the complete abolition of slavery (Dean). ...

• Word Count: 4263
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School