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Economy also falls into the "measurable" category because the things that make up economics, such as, import and exports, gross domestic product, industry, national debt, are all computable and recorded information. After the fall of the South in the war, the American economy boomed for several reasons. The North had a bigger market allowing railroads to connect vast state boundaries allowing for increased transportation. Industrial and technological advancements like Andrew Carnegie's first steel plant, Rockefeller's organized Standard Oil, and Alexander Graham Bell's telephones also helped the economy flourish. By the mid 1890s the United States was the world's number one industrial powerhouse (Lichtenstein, Strasser, Rosenzweig - p.21). It was necessary for the North to parent southern states after the war, because the South was left very unstable and the exploitation of free-slave labor was no longer an applicable tool for the South. This disabled the South to be self-sufficient, putting them economically at the mercy of increasing industrial northern states. .
Politics and culture are parallel to one another because there is no clear cut formula to measure the amount of culture or politics. Politics for instance, is the ideology of people or a group of people or in other words the way one thinks. During that time period, there were two immerging political views, that of the northern radical republicans and of the southern conservative democrats. The Republican Party in 1854 was made directly as a result of the southern power wanting all states to become slave states. Finally Reconstruction followed the war initiated President Lincoln's emancipation proclamation. This provided colored men and women many more constitutional rights with the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution (Lichtenstein, Strasser, Rosenzweig - p.4). As the two parties began to form elections voting became much more important.
