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    The North and The South After 4 grueling years‚ The Civil War finally came to an end on May 9th‚ 1865. Most believed the Civil War was started was because of the “Free states” (The North) and the “Slave states” (The South) couldn’t come to a compromise over the power of national government to stop slavery in the territories that had not yet become states. Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860 and vowed to keep slavery out of territories. The Civil war is an incredibly crucial part of history

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    In both the North and South colonies the populations grew phenomenally. Colonists of all different backgrounds lived in varied environments under thirteen different colonial governments. “[In the south] slaves made the most striking racial composition of the population. Slavery became the defining characteristic of the southern colonies during the eighteenth century‚ shaping the region’s economy‚ society and politics.” The economic‚ political‚ and cultural differences between the colonies of the

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    and the southern states were known as the “slave states.” The division of the northern and southern states led them to develop differently in the years leading up to the Civil war. Among the United States the north took the first and deepest step into the industrialization era. The north noticed how other countries were changing economically and becoming more modernized. Commerce between the United States and Europe was very popular and that is how the United States acknowledged Europe’s modernized

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    how they were to go about in their trading and farming economy. The south and the north may have been comparable but they were also two totally diverse colonies at the same time. After Columbus found the new world‚ the pilgrims and the Puritans came over to receive religious freedom. That is what many new settlers came to do. They wanted to escape the intolerance of the church in Britain and start a new church. Even if the north was very religious and the middle colonies were more religiously tolerant

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    Audrey Hepburn March 4‚ 2013 Mr. Miller AP U.S. History South vs. North 1800-1850 FRQ: In spite of sharing a country‚ the Northern and Southern areas of America had many differences and distinctions‚ which ended up dividing the nation. During the first part of the 1800’s the North and the South grew in different ways. In the North‚ cities were centers of wealth and manufacturing. There were many skilled workers. In the South there was not much manufacturing. There were not many skilled workers

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    The novel North and South by John Jakes is a near-heartbreaking tale that illustrates the tensions amounting between the Northern and Southern states of the United States of the America from a new perspective –– a personal one. The two protagonists of the story are George Hazard of Pennsylvania and Orry Main of South Carolina‚ who became best friends with an unbreakable bond which they established during their attendance in the United States Military Academy at West Point. Their relationship extends

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    A CASE ANALYSIS ON NORTH-SOUTH AIRLINE I. CASE BACKGROUND Northern Airlines merged with Southeast Airlines to create the fourth largest U.S. carrier in which it inherited both an aging fleet of Boeing 727-300 aircraft and Stephen Ruth. As the new president of the airline‚ Stephen’s first concern is to create a financially solid company since it is a common presumption for airline industries that maintenance costs rise with the age of aircrafts. He noticed that there have been significant differences

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    cotton farming‚ while the North’s economy was based on manufacturing. Because the South did not manufacture goods‚ they were forced to purchase products from the North to‚ thus adding to the North’s economy. Then‚ with the South’s money the North would purchase cotton from the southern states. Also‚ in the South‚ there were hardly any job opportunities for whites since slaves were used on the fields‚ but unlike the North‚ where job opportunities were great and mainly were abundant in factories for the

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    major cities in the North. By 1860‚ the population stood at 23 million compared to the South’s nine million. By contrast‚ 80 percent of Southerners were employed in agriculture‚ compared to just 40 percent in the North. The South’s slave economy supported their agriculture. Towards the end of this period‚ only one-ninth of the United States’ industrial capacity was situated in the South. According to Towner (2011)‚ both

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    social classes; the upper class were snobbish and shallow‚ and the lower or working class were dirty‚ illiterate and uneducated. Two historic and popular novels that examine Victorian life are George Elliot’s Middlemarch and Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South; in both novels the writers try to portray the essence of the society as a whole‚ not merely of one class‚ sometimes more or less successfully than the other. The two texts both reinforce and contradict the clichéd representations of Victorian

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