The North and South in the nineteenth century were different in lifestyle and economy. The north had a booming industrial economy while in the South, cotton was king. ... Americans sought to resolve their political disputes through compromise in the early nineteenth century, yet by 1860 this no longer seemed possible because of the many differences between the North and South. nThere were different factors that prevented the growth and compromise of states. ... Americans sought to resolve their political disputes through compromise in the early nineteenth century, yet by 1860 this no longer se...

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This shift to the North became known as the Great Migration and is presented in Document D where the population of African Americans in major northern cities reached to over 100 percent of their previous African American population in some cities. By moving to the north African Americans were hoping to gain loyalty from the country by working in factories that produced war-time materials. They were also attempting to leave the cruelties of the South behind but unfortunately they run into many of the same cruelties in the north from anti-black rioters. ... The war had allowed for many African...

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Besides people who were going westward, white manufacturers and hand-craftsmen in the North also benefited from these social developments. ... On the contrast of the market revolution in the North, however, white planters in southern colonies were still relying heavily on their profitable "King Cotton"" and thus relying on slavery, making no responses to social changes at all. ... Though theoretically, things were better in the North because of industrialization and accordingly lack of slavery, the way that society treated African Americans were still far from equal. ... It turned out that t...

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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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According to Nell Painter in Creating Black Americans, there are particular factors which drove black southerners to the North. ... As the increasing number of black southern immigrants populated the North, black southerners began to transform both black and white America. According to Joe Trotter in "The Great Migration", the mass migration of black Southerners to the North reflected not only their quest for freedom, but also caused an emergence of new patterns of race, class, and ethnic relations in American culture (31). ... In fact, Trotter points out African Americans beginning ...

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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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These tropes can be seen throughout many of African American works of literature. ... Dubois and is defined in the focus of African American literature and the African American experience as "an individual whose identity is divided into several facets.... African Americans have the task of taking the two selves, the African and American, and combining this person into one. ... African Americans are faced with the challenge of identifying themselves with not only their African home land and traditions but also with their American upbringing (Ndi and Ndeh 2013). ... Among African Americans,...

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The Civil War pitted Americans against each other. ... In fact, she says, "cotton productivity, no doubt due to the sharecropping system that replaced slavery, remained central to the American economy for a very long time Cotton was the leading American export from 1803 to 1937." 1. ... Whenever you have two people-or peoples- [the North and South] joined in politics but doing diametrically opposing things, it becomes almost inevitable that at some point tensions and jealousies would break out." 3 Alexander points out that tensions between the two sides of America were inevitable. ... As Ameri...

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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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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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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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They were underprivileged compared to the white Americans in many areas such as political, economical, and social situations. ... Socially, African-American's faced countless examples of discrimination. ... In the North, law didn't enforce this segregation, however De Facto segregation was still present, as white people still saw themselves as essentially better and superior to black men. Those in the North also experienced high poverty and those in the ghettos, which were at least 90% entirely populated by blacks, still had higher rent prices than areas of white living. The econom...

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The colony of North Carolina served as a haven for poor farmers and rejects from Virginia. ... This, however, did not allow North Carolina to establish a strong plantation economy. ... The colonists of North Carolina were thought to be irreligious and immoral. ... The large tobacco plantations of Virginia made it among the first southern colonies to exploit African Americans for the purpose of slave labor. ... North Carolina was settled by poor drifters and rejects from aristocratic Virginia. ...

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Throughout the novel, "Black Boy," Richard Wright addresses the many effects of racism on the black American. White America has more power through education than Black America; however, black America has more power and knowledge through experience rather than education. ... Through systematic racism, discrimination of blacks is pursued and kept alive in the American society. ... Another benefit of the Great Migration North was in the North the blacks had undergone the discrimination as a group rather than having to deal with it by themselves. ... In the novel, Black Boy, Wright acknowledges an...

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Abstract this paper will explore the histories of both Native American and African American cultures and their interactions with the dominant white population in America. ... A Comparison of Native American and African American Cultures Native American and African American cultures each have had their own long rich histories from before the white majority arrived in America. ... This treaty closed the land to all non-Native Americans; however the Texas ranchers driving their herds north to Kansas would look with envy to graze their cattle on that land. ... African American History with Native ...

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A final blow to the hopes for national protection of African American civil rights was dealt with The Force Bill of 1890. ... As the opportunity for economic advancement increased after the Civil War, the North felt as though it had done its part and both the President and Congress hastily turned their backs on the new, colored American Citizens. ... While, for the most part, blacks continued to vote in the North, blacks in the South saw an immediate attack on their franchise. ... The white Southerners had effectively disenfranchised the African American by the turn of the century. ...

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States Rights Living in the North or the South gave exceptionally different recompenses and exposure to the political atmosphere for the women in the early republic. ... The justification of this was that women were incapable of making a logically decision instead driven by emotion they would follow the persuasions of their husbands.Thus giving their husband double the votes per household and that went against the freedoms fought for in the American Revolution....

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This book was one of the first works of literature that provided the north with which they thought was an accurate look at the institution of slavery. ... Many people did not even realize that the institution of slavery is wrong, because they were raised being taught that that's why African American people were put here on earth. ... If the north would force the south to put an end to all slavery, then the south would be forced to succeed, because they would have to save their economy. ... Uncle Tom's Cabin was an event that lead to the start of he American civil war, because it s...

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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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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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