Slavery indeed would help even further boost America's new found economy until the American Revolution. ... Unlike how the American Revolution affected America's economy, America's economy throughout the Union in the North played a great hand in helping them defeat the Confederacy of the South. ... This shows a distinct difference, as the North had the same amount of factories as the South had laborers, along with over nine times as many workers than the South had; a clear advantage in the North. ... The South depended on exporting their cotton to the North and Europe, howe...

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Although it wasn't until the 1860's that national unity had been split between North and South, national unity started to fade as the United States was expanding in the early 1800's. ... Document C is starting to explain some of the tension between the North and South with the Nullification Crisis where South Carolina nullified the Tariffs the Government put on the states. ... Southerners' resentment is growing exponentially towards the North and the government to the point in Document K where James Hammond writes about how the Southern states can hold their own without th...

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According to Perman the major difficulty for the North in reconstructing America was the resentment of the South towards the North and their uncooperative behavior in the Reconstruction policies. ... Perman discusses the role of African American in Reconstruction and says that one of the biggest challenges for the North was to provide educational facilities to the black population. ... Perman says that the federal government in the North knew that without educating the African American they cannot achieve the total emancipation of the slaves and the Reconstruction of the South, as the Southern...

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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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Failure to live by the statement, "All men are created equal," and honor the inalienable rights of people following the American Revolution, is not the main precursor that doomed the United States to a Civil War. ... The Federalists in the North, wanted a strong central government and chose to take a loose interpretation of the Constitution. ... Quarrels between the two parties continued, until eventually 11 states made a resolution, and finally disaffiliated from the United States in 1860-1861, and formed the Confederate States of America. ... The North was proceeding to become more...

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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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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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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 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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The longer term causes discussed will be economic differences between the North and South, failure of Congress to compromise and the slavery and territory issues. ... The economic climates of the North and South differed a great deal. The North's economy depended heavily upon industry. ... The actions of the North and the South and their failure to compromise lead to the most costly war in human casualties ever. ...

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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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These reasons were based on population, the south was made up of more people than the north, but the actual physical population was large in the south. This was caused by the way population was calculated; in the south every three slaves were counted as one man, thus a new state in the south with no slaves would not give the south the power they have been seeking to rival the growth in the north. ... Secondly, the compromise excluded slavery from all new states in the Louisiana Purchase north of southern boundary of Missouri. ... The compromise, although deemed fair, was seen as just a way ...

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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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The civil war created incredibly high tensions and an extreme dichotomy in beliefs between the 10 or so ex-confederate southern states and the victorious states of the north. Reconstruction of the south was now going to be based on what the north wanted, since they had won the war. ... Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Florida were all readmitted to the Union in 1868 which makes sense because it was the same year that the Fourteenth Amendment was passed. ... It "gave the federal government responsibility for guaranteeing equal rights under the law to all Amer...

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When Texas to joined the Confederate States of America several changes were done to the government. ... Since the north no longer trust the south with their ruling power, it disenfranchised former Confederate soldiers and all other persons who held public office under the Confederate system. Also one of the most important changes was the fourteen amendment granting African Americans suffrage and made al persons born or naturalized in the United States citizens of the nation and provided federal protection for their rights. ...

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For Lincoln, the concept of a democratic America symbolized "the last, best hope of earth." ... By the end of the war, nearly 200,000 African Americans had fought for the Union cause, and Lincoln referred to them as indispensable in ensuring Union victory. ... And in the process it would deter both British and French intervention--the former by making plain the Union's antislavery agenda, the latter by removing a key support beam, the slave-holding South, for the new French empire in North America. ...

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In 1860, Lincoln Abraham was elected as president of the United States of America. The election prompted several southern slave states to secede and later a four-year long civil war between the North and the South was triggered. ... Facing the possibility of more states seceding and more splits emerging between the North and the South, he tried to eliminate the concerns of slaveholders by clarifying that he had no inclination to free the slaves. ... Many historians, such as Allen Guenzo, the author of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, give Lincoln full cr...

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Slavery was at the root of the problems; its existence had gradually come to influence all aspects of American life. ... Specifically, twenty one million people resided in the North while only nine million resided in the South, four million of which were slaves . ... As soon as he crushed a company of Union soldiers, the North used its population advantage to immediately send fresh reinforcements. Lee, an avid reader of the Union newspapers, knew that Lincoln had been facing tremendous pressure from some powerful people in the war-weary North to allow the South to secede. ...

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In Jefferson Davis's first inaugural address, as president of the Confederate States of America, the sole reasons for secession was resistance to Northern tyranny and the defense of state's rights. ... That submission to the North meant the end of slavery and annihilation of the South. ... The North was already on the road to abolish slavery, and would pass a constitutional amendment emancipating the slaves (65). ...

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Who freed the slaves? Slavery was a big issue in America for very long time. Some people thought to leave it alone, like Southern plantation owners or any people who owned slaves. Then there were persons who opposed slavery, like Lincoln and most of the northern people. Some historians say that ...

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By the spring of 1864, Atlanta, Georgia existed as the last connection between the western and eastern halves of the Confederate States of America. ... In order to distract Johnston from the Union troops marching south to cut off the Confederate supply line, Sherman engaged in small skirmishes attacking from the north and west. ...

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All of these men, including Chamberlain, who was a Lieutenant Colonel for the North, played important roles in early Confederate victories such as, the Battles of Manassas, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. According to Daniel McCarthy, a 2003 graduate student in the classics at Washington University in Saint Louis and now the editor of The American Conservative, "This is as much his [General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson] story as it is the story of the war itself. ... (Gods and Generals) With all of this in mind, the film ties in well with American History I with specific re...

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Abraham Lincoln is considered one of the best presidents in American history. He had a great impact on American history that still impacts us yet today. Lincoln is considered the savior of the union during the Civil War and emancipated all of the slaves living in America with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. Without him the north likely would of been defeated by the Confederacy, and African American's might still be slaves. ... This prompted many African-Americans to volunteer in the Union army and more than 180,000 joined, making up ten percent of the Union forces by the end of the...

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