The struggle between state and federal government is a large part of American history. ... The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments aided the North's vision of reconstruction. The amendments provided a series of advantages for the North's ideal Union. ... The amendment's most important provision, was to defined an American citizen as anyone born in the United States or naturalized, thereby automatically making African Americans citizens. ... Slavery had been a part of life in America since the early colonial period and became more acceptable in the South than in the North. ...

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When the war started the confederate states over powered the north almost with continuous winning, the north struggled in the beginning due to the inexperienced volunteers and soldiers, but soon the battle of Gettysburg was a tremendous turning point victory to Lincoln. ... Although the confederate army started to weaken, while the day of the war went by the north achieved a tremendous winnings that forced southern generals to surrender to the north. ... The south kept its word by keeping loyal to the north without any further rebilling. ... Abraham Lincoln should be a role model to eve...

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When Americans didn't agree on things, the outcome was always violent, and the altercation was the Civil War. ... Documents A and B both show the areas of the union and how there was an unequal balance of economical systems in the north and south. In the year 1860, it can be seen that the North had way more railroads than the south, showing the importance of trade in the North rather than the South. ... The North wanted to advance and form a thriving country without the use of slavery, separating themselves from the South. ... Douglass said, in document G, "What, to the American sla...

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The Civil War The American civil War is sometimes called the War Between the States. It the most memeriable war in American history, 3 million fought - 600,000 died. It was the only war fought on American soil by Americans, and for that reason we have always been fascinated with The Civil War. ... But by the 1830s the market revolution had tied Northeastern factories and Northwestern farms into a roughly unified, commercialized North. ... An antislavery Republican Party became dominant in the North and elected Abraham Lincoln president in 1860. ...

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Also, many African-Americans were the victims of intimidation by racist, anti-black groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. ... The Southern Democrats were the main advocates of the Black Codes and fought to overcome the perceived image of North ruling South. Moderate Republicans from both the North and South, pursued a strategy of gentle reunification of the two sides, but made it clear that slavery was forever gone from American soil. Finally, there were the Radical Republicans of the North. ... Also, Andrew Johnson could be considered the fourth political element, because of his unpartisan views a...

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It officially declared the independence of the thirteen British North American colonies. ... Also, English common law stops being effective in American courts on July 4, 1776. ... Additionally, American citizenship is regarded as anyone living in America on July 4, 1776, not 1787 which was the year in which the Constitution took effect. If the Constitution was America's founding document, why was citizenship status defined as 1776 when the Constitution is not written until 1787? ...

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Territorial Issues Before the onset of the American Civil War, a great debate was raging among the citizens, and politicians of the Untied States. ... Slavery was not only an institution in the Southern states, but it was part of a lifestyle that had been going on since the founding of the United States of America. ... One particularly famous African American who was freed from slavery was Fredrick Douglass. ... "The fugitive slave law plunged Negroes of the North into the bitterest anguish. ... It turned out to be the calm before the storm; which was to become the bloodiest war in w...

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The Compromise of 1850 infuriated the South, as it greatly tipped the scales in favor of the North. ... The struggle between the North and the South over Kansas threw the territory into chaos. ... The South paralleled her situation to that of the thirteen colonies prior to the American Revolution. ... The seven states formed their new government, the Confederate States of America before electing Davis as president. ... During the late 1850s, sectional struggles mounted, contributing to the widening schism between the North and the South. ...

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The Compromise of 1850 infuriated the South, as it greatly tipped the scales in favor of the North. ... The struggle between the North and the South over Kansas threw the territory into chaos. ... The South paralleled her situation to that of the thirteen colonies prior to the American Revolution. ... The seven states formed their new government, the Confederate States of America before electing Davis as president. ... During the late 1850s, sectional struggles mounted, contributing to the widening schism between the North and the South. ...

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The Compromise of 1850 infuriated the South, as it greatly tipped the scales in favor of the North. ... The struggle between the North and the South over Kansas threw the territory into chaos. ... The South paralleled her situation to that of the thirteen colonies prior to the American Revolution. ... The seven states formed their new government, the Confederate States of America before electing Davis as president. ... During the late 1850s, sectional struggles mounted, contributing to the widening schism between the North and the South. ...

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Some of the first settlers in seventeenth century America were British revolutionaries escaping religious prejudices back home. ... The north was against slavery spreading into new states. ... By 1861, seven Southern States had seceded from the Union and created the Confederate States of America. ... Arguably, historians have loosely compared slavery in America to slavery in other countries. ... Slavery has been simplified to a part of our gruesome past that everyone - including African-Americans - wants to forget. ...

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This meant that Lincoln, even before being sworn in as president, was faced with the rebellion of 7 southern states who left the Union to form the Confederate States of America, and later four more who joined as hostilities began between the North and South. ... Up until the war the North and South had operated on very different economic systems. ... They grew and harvested cotton only for it to be shipped to the North, woven into cloth and sold at a profit. The North also imposed taxes on the South, which they felt was unfair. ... More Americans died in the Civil War than in all other wars Am...

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Changes in America's two-party system can be broken up into five distinct systems. ... Jackson's image of the average man appealed to many Americans and created as shift in the party system, by giving a greater voice to the lower and middle class of America. The third party system came about during the American Civil War. ... The north came out as the winner and thus enjoyed the spoils of victory. ... Due to wide spread poverty in America, the nation blamed the controlling Republican party. ...

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The controversial issue of slavery further divided the North and the South based on their views; the north viewed slavery as a morally wrong practice, and the south viewed slavery as a part of their life style.  ... The North had a cooler climate and rocky terrain, which did not allow for a focus on agriculture; however, the north was able to focus more on trade. ... A major resource that the north had that the south did not was fast flowing rivers. ... Dred Scott, an African American who was born a slave but had lived on free soil for four years, tried to sue his master for not granting him ...

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The period in American history which we now refer to Reconstruction began in 1863 when Abraham Lincoln first outlined his Reconstruction program, but its inevitable end and lack of success had been predetermined more than two centuries before, with the arrival of the first Europeans and their slaves in North America. ... Although slavery existed predominantly in the South before the Civil War, the morals and ethics perpetuated by the racism associated with it had an effect on all of American society, the North as well as the South. ... Born in North Carolina, Johnson eventually moved to T...

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It was originally drafted with the intent of unifying the newly formed nation, the United States of America. ... However, by 1850, the Constitution had become not only a point of sectional disunity, but it had influenced a split politically and morally between the North and the South. ... He stated, in Document G, that "The Southern States, standing of the basis of the Constitution, have a right to demand this act of justice from the States of the North." ... Although it was originally constructed as a sign of unity for the United States, it ended up resulting in the disunity and tensions betw...

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The Reconstruction Era was a very trying time for America. ... This plan did not go well with the radical republicans who wanted the south to pay for causing the north to go through complete hell. ... The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed citizenship to all African-American born people, the fifteenth amendment which guaranteed the right for a black male to vote. ... But this did not nearly end the struggle for African-American freedom. ... The Federal government did not provide the complete aid that was promised and the South kept up the tradition of devolving the African-American struggle. ...

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The Civil War, the greatest conflict to occur on American soil, took place from 1861 to 1865 because of the secession of the southern states of the Union. ... They seceded directly after the South Carolina convention that followed Abraham Lincoln's election to the Presidency of the United States of America and their states voted tremendously for secession. ... These states: North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Arkansas seceded only after Lincoln's call for troops forced them to choose between secession and fighting against their sister states of the Lower South. These states did n...

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Lincoln establishes this by using optimal diction through how he invokes a sense of togetherness and intermutual ground for both, North and South, to find a compromise. ... The optimistic tone encourages all Americans to end the Civil War and progress to tending the wounds as a nation, calling the American people to action with phrases like, "Let us all strive on to finish the work we are in" and "to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace.... Through this, Abraham Lincoln allows for his argument for uniting America to truly come full circle. Lincoln'...

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Reconstruction in the context of American history refers to the time period after the Civil War, specifically from 1865 to 1877, in which the United States began to rebuild from the pandemonium and chaotic aftermath of the Civil War. ... During the Reconstruction period, thousands of teachers, missionaries, and philanthropists from the north helped found hundreds of schools for the blacks in the south. ... For such an important event in the American history like Reconstruction, it always has its own pros and cons. ...

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The Civil War left America broken and disunited, and the following Reconstruction period between 1865 and 1877, was meant to put America back together socially and economically, and accomplish the unity pursued by the central governing body. ... Even though the Republican Party was only a decade old, they benefited from the Civil War as veterans; they sought to have a strong support from the North and the newly-freed men from South. ... This move by Congress implied the shifting power within American politics system. ... Overall, Reconstruction did bring America back together as a whole coun...

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Many documents drafted during the Civil War period were stepping stones to the abolishment of slavery in America. ... Seward advised that such an act would seem hollow without a military victory showing the North's superior strength."" ... The north's military power sharply increased and with it so did their advantage in the war. ... "The Emancipation Proclamation was a pronouncement to the British "indeed, to the world "that the North was fighting against the institution of slavery. ... African Americans are still free today; their freedom still h...

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Under the umbrella of democracy the American States and the federal government have grown politically and socially. The foundations of the democratic process in America were completely different from anywhere else on the globe at that time. ... The only government the Whigs favored was the "American System." ... This spirit wasn't just within the American people, this also happened with many immigrants who came to America because they were unsatisfied and unhappy with the way things were run in the country they came from. ... The Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854 reopened the possibility of sla...

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His achievements in government had cleared a path for other African Americans to follow. ... Immediately he was recruited as a speaker of the Anti-Slavery Society and would continue to distinguish himself as on orator throughout the North. ... In October of 1847, Douglass created a newspaper called The North Star. This newspaper finally gave the black people of America a voice. ... Frederick Douglass fought for the equality among all humanity and wrote, "The real question, the all commanding question, is whether American justice, American, Liberty, American civilization, American law and Ameri...

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How did the different social and economic characteristics of the northern and southern colonies later play a crucial, and tragic, role in American history? The northern and southern colonies had various social and economic differences, all of which eventually contributed to a tragic event in American history. ... For instance, the importance of education in the northern colonies reflects why various school of prestige are found in the north. ...

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