But didn't it violate America's very own Constitution? ... As America expanded, and new states joined the Union, the conflict grew.Territories in the North entered as free states, and territories in the South entered as slave states. ... The North and South could not agree on power either, the north was afraid of slavery spreading and the South did not want it to stop. ... The North was scared that slavery was spread throughout America, while the south was pleased by this. ... The North and the South's opposing views divided America, causing secession and the Civil war....

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America is filled with much diversity. ... With this, abolitionists posted poster warnings to the African Americans in the North that they could be captured and taken to the South (Document 4). ... After the War, the African Americans received more rights. ... Many Abolitionists taught African American students (Document 9). ... The War was a big win for the North, although they had more casualties. ...

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In the North, the economy functioned very differently. ... In the North, prior to 1850, if you were an escaped slave, and you managed to get to the North, you would be considered a free person. ... These differences caused tension which eventually helped lead to the American Civil War. ... In the North, most people had a completely opposite view. ... In the end, all of these tensions were very important, and ended up being some of the causes of the American Civil War....

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While the Civil War was a triumph for American prosperity as well, referring to it as the 2nd American Revolution does not equally fit. ... Northern politics forced the South to buy their manufactured goods, which aided the north, but proved to be a detriment to the south. ... The output of southern industry in proportion to that of the North was cut in half by the war; the value of southern agricultural land in relation to that of the North was cut by three-fourths." ... But even with slavery gone, racism persisted in the South, and even in the North. ... If Americans exited the Civil war ...

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"At the root of all the war was the institution of slavery, which had been introduced into North America in early colonial times," says James F. ... There were many arguments between the North on the South about slavery and about ending it. ... After Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, eleven states left the Union and proclaimed themselves an independent nation, the Confederate States of America: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. The American Civil War had begun. ... "At the root of all the w...

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Through amendments and acts, the American government has worked towards reducing racism towards African-Americas. ... The American government began taking actions against racism during the times of the Civil War, when a war was waged between the North and the South over whether or not the South could secede from the Union and permit slavery. The North eventually won the war, and with the 13th Amendment, slavery was outlawed in the United States. This was the first step towards equality for African-Americans. ... African-Americans rights were further strengthened with the 14th and 15th Amendmen...

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The United States of America has undergone a lot of changes over the years. ... The first event to be discussed is the civil war, more known in the history books as The American Civil War, a war in the 1860s that was to determine whether the survival of the union; known as the North, or the independence for the confederacy, which was the south. ... In the past, south had millions of black slaves put to hard labor, unlike the North, where slavery was illegal. ... The north had been positively affected by the fall of the south. ... As I pointed out earlier, slavery in the north was forbidden, an...

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" The North and South in America in the 1860s had wanted each other's faction, yet wanted different societies. ... Different climates and locations had a huge effect on both the North and the South. ... The geography and the climate played a huge role on the lives of the North and the South. ... The South is quite similar to the North, but it has different features. ... Farming for the North was not as productive as the South. ...

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Would you agree that African culture survived more strongly in the Caribbean colonies than in North America? ... North American slaves lived together in buildings near to their place of work. ... Links via relations to other family members in other villages created the kinship ties and the same sense of identity similar to slaves in North America. ... However, in both the Caribbean and in North America it would appear that a certain amount of assimilation took place if the slaves were to survive in their new "homeland". ... Like America the Caribbean h...

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America as well wanting to benefit in a financial way also the pride in every single American that lives in America and America itself. ... The government in the North tried to protect blacks even after the civil war but they weren't doing the best they could do. ... The economy during this time was also hard on the South because the war was lost and reconstructing was hard to do so there was still a lot of anger built towards the north. ... Expansion was also on American's minds. ... In the end America got what they wanted. ...

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African Americans were found mainly in the North and South, while Native Americans were sprinkled all over the United States. ... In the North where slavery was increasingly marginal and looked down upon, it was not very important and serious as it was in the South. According to American Slavery, Kolchin states; "in the North, slaves were few and slaveholdings were typically tiny. ... During the eighteenth century slavery in the North became increasingly less necessary and industrialization became a lot more important to the North. ... The South needed slavery in order to function and ...

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"Drawing the Color Line" by Howard Zinn chronicles the beginning of slavery in North America (Gallagher, 2012). The beginning of slavery in North America developed into a regular institution, into the normal labor relation of blacks to whites (Gallagher, 2012). With it developed those special racial feelings - hatred, contempt, pity, or patronization - that accompanied the inferior position of blacks in America for the next three hundred fifty years, that combination of inferior status and derogatory thought we call racism. ... The discipline of hard labor, the breakup of the slave family, th...

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However by 1860, roughly two-thirds of all New World slaves lived in the American South. ... Racial hatred dramatically grew in North and South which resulted in physical violence. ... In Latin America, the Catholic Church gave slaves more rights than any other region at that time (Anthony: African American Registry). ... At that time, Spanish and Portuguese colonists were thought to be less infected by racial prejudice than North Americans, As a result, Latin American slavery was less subject to the pressures of a competitive capitalist economy. ... For a slave, access to freedom was much ...

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In America's history slavery and economics go hand in hand. ... The economic systems that dominated slavery reflected the transitions in Americas economic system. ... According to Carl Abbott, in the years following the American Revolution, slavery, which had never been so prevalent or economically important in the North as in the South, became the South's "peculiar institution." ... To please the North, slavery would be prohibited forever from Louisiana Purchase territories north of 36 30'. ... This served to further divide the North from the South. ...

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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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There simply cannot have been to countries within America with different lifestyles. ... The north felt a sense of anger against the south to rely on slaves. ... In conclusion, the Union and Confederacy held different dogmas in America. Each faction thought its methods to be the best for America. ... At the price of some 600,000 fatalities more than all American wars combined, the Civil War finally came to a halt. ...

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African Americans are an "at-risk" population. ... Systematic oppression of African Americans has become part of the everyday tapestry of the US society. ... Since the early 17th century, discrimination of African Americans has been an immanent part of daily life. ... During the 20th century, many from the African American population were forced to move up north and to the Midwest by blatant discrimination, permissible in the south. ... This will allow the lives of African Americans to be psychologically healthy....

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The North wanted to ensure that western land would be settled by free white labor, and not by black slave labor. ... They became two nations: The United States of America (known as the Union and the North) and The Confederate States of America (known as the South or Rebels). Yet from 1863 forward, the North had fought and won a war in defense of free labor, which they insisted the South adopt. ... Even though the North was victorious, the freedmen celebration was short lived. ... Once the North reached their goal of stopping the South from expanding slavery west and bringing the South back int...

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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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Antebellum America was a time of tremendous turmoil and oppression. ... The south agricultural economy was based almost entirely on slave labor and the north,a industrial economy was fighting for abolishing slavery. ... The arguments grew thicker as America began to move west in the 1840's and 50's. ... African Americans were thought to be to ignorant to be considered as people. ... Even as the north fought to abolish slavery they still viewed blacks as an inferior race. ...

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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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At the close of the American Revolution many slaves felt they too would be given their freedom. ... Emancipation in Northern states meant the furthest thing from equality between black and white Americans. ... States in the North did not have an economy that demanded such a need for agricultural slavery as say Maryland did with 111,502 slaves in 1810. ... Whether a black man or woman was free in the North had little to do with how they were treated, and essentially accepted, by society. ... At the close of the American Revolution, the new country of America faced a very strange predicame...

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As America entered the 19th century, America's size grew immensely. ... So it was Missouri which began a slave state, which technically stopped the reverse of anti-slavery in the North considering that Missouri was along the same level of north as other northern states. This led to the North trying to stop the South from bringing Missouri into statehood. This would split the political factions into strictly North and South at the time. ... Then the Bank of America had become a problem. ...

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In addition, the North wanted to develop a tariff. ... The time of reformation swept over the North and West. ... Education changed in the North. ... On February 4 delegates from all these states met in Montgomery, Alabama where they drafted a constitution for the Confederate States of America. This outraged the North and which led to the Civil War. ...

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In addition, the North wanted to develop a tariff. ... The time of reformation swept over the North and West. ... Education changed in the North. ... On February 4 delegates from all these states met in Montgomery, Alabama where they drafted a constitution for the Confederate States of America. This outraged the North and which led to the Civil War. ...

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