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    North VS. South The ways in which the north and south had become far different cultures in the areas of politics, economics, and social customs are they believe that the way of life should be the way they envision and they'll try to enforce policies that promote their style of reasoning into the government. The north is more lenient to an industry economic and the south is based on agriculture.The north and south are differently social by their thoughts on slavery. Firstly the North has always

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    Slavery was a major turning point of American history, and is a greatly debated topic. In the Civil War it is seen as the cause or whether it was just a part of it. The Civil War’s act with slavery was just another issue not the cause.The act of slavery in south was the cause of the great civil war , however due to it was a planned much later on to emancipate slavery as a military tactic by Abraham Lincoln, Horace Greeley urged President Lincoln in 1862 to transform the war into an abolitionist

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    The North and the South stood as two distinct regions during the antebellum period in America. The North and the South were rapidly diverging in all aspects: cultural, economic, and technological. The Northern industrial sector was modernizing the North, and the economy was starting to become more dependent upon manufacturing. Culturally, the Women's Rights movement was advancing as more and more women fought against the Cult of Domesticity. Women entered the "man's sphere" and began to work in factories

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    Couple of recorded contentions are more emotional than that between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas. Beside their physical contrasts, the two men were very comparative. Both were transients to Illinois, both were independent men, and both conceded to the majority of the issues of the day, aside from bondage. Their physical contrasts, be that as it may, were self-evident. Lincoln had no yearning to awe individuals by his appearance. His garments were dusty and looked as though they had not

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    Why the Civil War was fought is a question that, to this day, is still not entirely clear. Many people say that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery, while others believe that the South seceding was the prominent issue. While slavery was the original issue that started the war, the secession of the Southern States is what mainly drove the Civil War. The reason the Southern States were fighting for secession was because the Northern States were not giving the South equal say and power

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    North and South: Both Killed Reconstruction. When the slaves were freed problems arose either the North or South who was to blame? Reconstruction either to rebuild the infrastructures in the south and what to do with the now free slaves, many had to deal with this situation. For one where would the slaves go now that they’re free. Then what will happen with the south after is has gone through a tough war. The North and South needed to cooperate as they help each other out with their businesses. South

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    After the Civil War took place in the South there was an immense attempt to rebuild it. People had a lot of questions regarding the newly freed slaves and what they were going to do and how they were going to fix the south from the destruction from the war. The north was putting their efforts into helping the slaves and make them equally accepted as whites, however, the South disagreed with what the North was doing and wanted to keep blacks as slaves. This argument went back and forth because no

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    By 1860, the United States seemed to be divided into two very different cultures — Northern and Southern. Write a five-paragraph essay that explains the differences between the social structure, economy, and political goals of the North and South. Though the U.S. civil war itself spanned only four years, the wide-ranging social, economic, and political differences between the northern and the southern states had existed long before the firing of the first shot at Fort Sumter. In the social sphere

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    Civil War DBQ The Civil War started because of the states wanted more independence than the federal government was willing to give them. The states wanted to be able to do whatever they wanted to do, even if it went against what the federal government was telling them to do. For example the Confederate states wanted to be able to choose for themselves whether slavery was abolished or not in their state. But on the Union side the federal government wanted to give the states some independence, but

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    Introduction During the mid eighteen hundreds there were high tensions between the Northern United States and the Southern United States. One of the main causes of the tensions between the Northern and Southern States of the United States was Slavery. After the United States won the United States-Mexican War there was a large portion of new land for the United States but there was one problem. The Northern part of the United States did not want to have slavery but the Southern part of the United

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