Rationalism Published during the mid 1800's Uncle Tom's Cabin was a controversial book among both Northerners and Southerners due to it's anti-slavery issues, but it also provided a point for slavery. ... The south's economy was dependent on slaves, without slaves who would pick all the cotton and plant all the tobacco. 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 i...

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The primary purpose of mercantilism, an economic system that developed during the transition of America from colonies to states, was to unify and increase the power and financial wealth of a nation through strict government regulation of the national economy. ... (Abbott) Nevertheless, despite widespread questioning of its morality and a surplus of private liberation's in the Upper South during the revolutionary era, bondage actually expanded in the southern states. ... Between the North and the South, on the eve of the Civil War the country held almost 4 million slaves, confined enti...

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During the era of the Atlantic trade, slave importation had become an extremely popular commodity among colonists. ... Although this method of labor seemed immoral and inhumane to most, the South's economy had tremendously increased through slave labor. ... Although the major confrontation, the United States Civil War was not until 1861, the events of the seventeenth century and the early nineteenth century started the movement to end slavery. ...

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