During the antebellum years Northerners spouted ideas of anti slavery and chastised the South because of it. ... In actuality Northerners did help African Americans achieve freedom but did not "do away with" slavery. ... Cotton culture moved rapidly from the Tidewater states on the East coast through much of the lower South to the delta region of the Mississippi and eventually to Texas. Sugarcane, another labor -intensive crop, also contributed to slavery's extension in the south. ... The northerners opposed slavery's extension to the west but accepted its existence in the Sou...

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The north and the south had been divided and didn't know how to come back together again without intervention from the government. I believe that Reconstruction helped the African-Americans get some of the freedom that equally deserved. I also believe that Reconstruction helped the north and the south reunite as a country again. ... Ku Klux Clan - The KKK was created after the Civil War as means of rebelling against the Reconstruction plans and the plans to give the African-Americans equal rights. ... It took 6 months to travel from the east coast to the west coast. ...

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