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Civil War: The Causes Of The American Revolution

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Farmers in the south needed people to manage their economy on the farms. They used it in the form of slaves. Slaves were easy to purchase at low prices. They were used by their “masters” with long days of work, bad clothes and shoes, poor housing, and fear of being wiped or killed with no repercussions (Brogan 282). During the American Revolution, both the South and North used the labor force of slaves that were coming from Africa and the Caribbean. However the north quickly outlawed slavery. In fact, the last state in the north to end the idea of slave usage was New Jersey in 1804 (Brogan 280). This was due to a flow of immigrants from Ireland and Germany that were prepared to work for very low wages (Causes of the Civil War).
The South’s

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