Class I railroads in North America

of the North and South were vastly different leading up to the Civil War. Money was equivalent to power in both regions. For the North, the economy was based on industry as they were more modern and self-aware. They realized that industrialization was progress and it could help rid the country of slave labor as it was wrong. The North’s population had a class system but citizens could move within the system, provided they made the money that would allow them to move up in class. The class system

and they murdered about 60 white people in two days before they where stoped by the militia forces. the 1780 a movement had started called the underground railroad. The purpose of the underground railroad was to free slaves from the south. There were blacks and whits apart of the underground railroad. In the 1830 the underground railroad was moving, somewhere between 40,000- 100,000 slaves were set free. Harriet tubman was one of the leaders of the underground rail road. She would travel to the

event in American History. It started by many disagreements between the North and the South. For blacks as for other Americans, the Civil War was a strong voice preaching the needs for devotion and allegiance to form a justified nation. After the war ended there were many results that would forever linger throughout America and the world. The South was known as the Confederate States of America, seceded from the North, which was known as the Union. The seceding of the South was because of four

Ever look at all the railroads and big manufacturing companies and think where could something so big be started? Well the gilded age is highly responsible for these manufactures and creation of railroads. The Gilded Age took place 1869-1901 in the United States giving a whole new perspective, in 1877 to 1893 the economy nearly doubled. The Gilded Age took place in between Civil War and the World War 1 where the US economy grew drastically resulting in lots of political corruption. The Progressive

History of the United States, Howard Zinn described the development of slavery by stating the contributing factors. For instance, settlers coming from Europe would station in Africa to force Africans to go to America and work on the colonists’ plantations. African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 to aid in the production of such lucrative crops as tobacco. In addition to being plantation workers, slaves would also work in the houses of their owners as butlers

inspiration emanated from an older ebony man whom would sing and dance in Louisville, Kentucky. Rice’s skit ended in the same chorus as the old ebony mans musical composition which went like this "Wheel about and turn about and do jis so, Eb"ry time I wheel about I jump Jim Crow.". In 1832 Rice’s musical composition and dance routine took him through Louisville to Cincinnati the through Pittsburgh and Philadelphia then conclusively to Incipient York City. Determinately, Rice performed throughout Europe as

improving health, and trying to conserve natural resources. The Progressives “offered an impressive array of reform proposals” because the United States of America needed reforms and changes in order to complete improvements in the country. The citizens of America need rearrangement of providing and distribution of wealth to the hard-working class of America, because they would work extremely long hours in a day, they were paid very little in order to support their families due to the reason that it hardly

of the populist party was for the government to have ownership of transportation such as railroads. The western farmers hated the railroads because of the unfair exploitation in the cost of shipping their products, and the costs depended on each railroads' owner to decide the price so the populist wanted an even and fair railroad system.

Harriet Tubman’s success in freeing hundreds of slaves through the Underground Railroad is recognized throughout the world. As an escaped slave herself, she still traveled to the southern states many times to free other slaves. A normal fugitive slave would not put themselves in danger and risk imprisonment, but Harriet Tubman did. Although Harriet Tubman is very popular and every school teaches her life story, not many realize that she had a spy ring and had enormous influence on the Union during

in the North. The Missouri Compromise of 1820, the Mexican American War, the Industrial Revolution, the Compromise of 1850, the Abolitionist Movement, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, and the election of Abraham Lincoln were some of the events that contributed to the start of the Civil War. In the following, I will discuss these events in order of their importance and explain their significance in the struggle between the opposing slavery ideologies of the North and the