While southerners focused primarily on the farming of cotton, there was production of grain, cattle, and other foods in the North, as well as a developing factory system. ... Another tool of transportation was the river system, in which the South grew on. Cotton, the main stay of the southern economy, was shipped up and down the Mississippi River, north and south, to the rail lines in Ohio to the port of New Orleans. ... Cotton thrived because it grew on the rich soil of the southern river delta and could be shipped from the ports of river cities and towns on the Mississippi away to ocean harb...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the beginning of the book, she shows the Shelby Plantation as the more humane side of slavery, if there was such a thing. ... He manages the other slaves and is married to Chloe, a large, loving and happy woman. ... He can not understand why a female slave throws herself into the river after he sells her child. He is an opening into the darker side of slavery in this story. ... In one of the most memorable portions of the story, she crosses the frozen Ohio River with her baby, leaping from one chunk of ice to another. ...

• Word Count: 1024
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• Grade Level: High School

There is an old English proverb saying, "The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.... However, each faction was greedy for the others and coveted for each other's property. ... The rivers in the South moved slowly so it was easier to navigate, thus it was an excellent choice to make the town near a river for transporting goods. The North had "vast forestshad fast rivers, which made rivers difficult to navigate" (Vibar 1). ... Instead, they produced lumber, textiles, furs, and other useful resources. ...

• Word Count: 859
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• Grade Level: High School

On the other hand, the North's economy was based on industry and manufacturing powered by European immigrants. ... Americans in the early nation agreed that slavery was legal south of the Ohio River and illegal north of the Ohio River. However, in 1819 the issue came up should Missouri be admitted to the union as a slave state or a non-slave state, since Missouri didn't lie on either side of the river. ... On the other hand, the northern ideals flourished. ...

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Huck & Jim A journey sailing down the Mississippi River, escaping your past to find freedom, that brings two people from different worlds, come together. ... This change was from learning to live with each other and dealing with each other's problems. ... Jim starts out as Huck's family slave and basically had no relationship with each other at all, until they actually spend time with each other. ... Now they become more as equals to each other. ... Jim is very loyal and sticks by their side even if he's free. ...

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He lives with his mother a widow, and his sister Betty, his father died, drowned in the Mississippi River. ... The sailors were talking amongst one each other and their names were Claudius and Purvis. ... The only fears the crew had was spotting an enemy ship, the British, Spaniards, and other pirates. ... Rain, thunder, and raging winds rocked the boat from side to side destroying bits and pieces of the ship. ... He saw the African boy who stared at him the other day and went to sit with him, they held each other tight as the waves through them from wall to wall injuring their bodies. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In upstate New York, a man made river is cutting through the wilderness. ... On the other hand, it was called Clinton's big ditch, but it will change New York forever. ... If you are a free slave they still can sell you to who ever want to buy you weather they lived up or down the river. ... Brown had his five sons fighting by his side. ... On the other hand, the North was one hundred percent behind Lincoln to get rid of slavery. ...

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Huck and Jim's journey down the Mississippi River allows the reader to examine the attitudes, actions and beliefs of a southern community during the mid to late nineteenth century. ... Twain's underlying message for humanity is to be brave enough to break from what others assume is correct and just, and make decisions for yourselves and the ability to stand on your own and do something about it. ... Jim allows the readers to see the human side of slaves and acknowledge the love, friendship, and goodness that they are capable of when given the chance. ... Twain uses Jim as a ...

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Whitney had one sister and two other brothers, who all lived in one house. ... But instead it would have side effect that no one foresaw that would lead the United States to be torn into two parts. ... But this method would only work if the plantation was by a river or stream. ... The most obvious and important side affect was that slavery would increase and that the end of slavery would be delayed. ... Another side effect that would eventually happen later in history was the Civil War. ...

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It had hot weather with long growing seasons, quality soil, and navigable rivers. ... The most famous was the use of whipping and other forms of punishment given to slaves who did not complete their jobs successfully. ... Textbooks offer too little information on the subject and the only other slavery books I have read are from the slaves" point of view. ... Stampp incorporated all of these other works to better explain, in full depth how slavery worked, and why it was successful. ... It chronologically shows the changes made in slavery from all sides and points of view. ...

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She became a roving minister, traveling around the Connecticut River valley to preach, sing, pray, and evangelize at camp meetings, in churches, or wherever she could find shelter and an audience. ... (from source#5 of bibliography) If I were to take a side in the argument I would take Sojourner's side. ... I believe Sojourner Truth was an inspiration for other civil/human rights leaders such as Malcolm X and Oprah Winfrey because of her will to stand up for what she believed in and be one of the first African Americans in history to do it. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The issue of slavery is significant and affected many other aspects of American life, specifically the culture of the South. ... In Northern vessels his products are carried to market, his cotton is ginned with Northern gins, his sugar is crushed and preserved by Northern machinery; his rivers are navigated by Northern steamboats . . . ... It will become all one thing, or all the other." ... The difference between their views was that Seward believed the Union would become all one thing or all the other, but it would come "at the cost of civil war, if necessary....

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In time, other plantation crops such as cotton, sugar cane, indigo, and sugar beets were to thrive in the South. ... Five other states - Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana - followed in January 1861. ... Virginia had long been undecided about which side to join. ... We had been repulsed at Fredericksburg and at Vicksburg, and at tremendous cost had fought the battle of Stone River. ...

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