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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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    to a cause equally‚ something the North and South could not do! North and South could never agree on many things‚ causing the Civil War. The Civil War includes some of the most cruel‚ bloody wars anyone has ever seen. The reasons of the war affected so much‚ the country is split into two. Reasons for South fighting One of the reasons for the South fighting against North is slavery‚ one of the main reasons for the war. In the split of the North and South‚ the South developed tensions and is angered

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    war (Civil War) between the North and South was a major war that included more than 100‚000 troops. North and South had to turn to their neighboring countries to find more men willing to fight with them. Both started to developed strategic plans. The south wanted their independence and the North wanted to preserve their Union. Believing that a time for negotiating has passed Lincoln believed the North had to physically conquer the Confederates to gain control of the South. The North had more man power

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    beloved country broke out in a bloody massacre of the North states against the South‚ they called it the Civil War. hen it was over and the North won‚ the bonds weren’t as strong as before and the war had hit the USA harder than expected. President Lincoln made a plan to save our country called REconstruction‚ he wanted 10% of white southern men to take an oath of loyalty and they were off the hook for almost destroying the country. North or South: Who killed Reconstruction? The definition of reconstruction

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    Between 1492 and 1763 the colonies were growing and improving their conditions from before when they had lived in Britain. Although the colonist all came for a similar reason of escaping religious persecution and had the same idea when it came to organizing their colony‚ they did however have a difference in class organization and 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

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    English Citizens who came over to the New World either ended up in the North or the South. As the people began to thrive there; differences‚ especially in the economy‚ began to become more prominent between two. They type of land the English landed on was the driving factor in the separations of the economy between the North and the South. The climate in the North was very different from the climate in the South. In the North you had four distinct seasons‚ which limited farming abilities. Which

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    to a plethora of locations‚ most notably North and South America. These slaves would go on to form their own individualized communities within their bondage and shape the very countries that had enslaved them in the 18th and 19th centuries. Slaves in North and South America played similar roles but developed independently of each other and thus shaped their own individual social‚ economic‚ and political advances. African Slaves living in North and South America

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    The North and the south are like a teacher and student‚ the North can teach the South as a student how lead the reconstruction era for it to become successful however‚ its up to the South as the student to see what they think is best. As so the South did act foolish and led to many missed out opportunities for its lands to become successful with allowing the blacks to live as an everyday white person. Now‚ “the better man is the person who learns from their mistakes” and so that is why I placed

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    Notions of freedom differed widely between the North and the South‚ mostly on the issue of slavery. This became such a difficult issue that Parties were split‚ the differences between parties grew much larger‚ and the North and the South were divided along geographical lines on slavery. James Shannon describes this when he says “Besides‚ were it at all allowable to apply ridicule to subjects involving such momentous issues‚ it might justly be called supremely and contemptibly ridiculous to characterize

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    though the North and the South were part of the same country‚ the societies‚ economies‚ and geography made it so that they were like two different nations. One of the things that shaped every aspect of life was the geography. The fertile soil and warm climate of the South made it ideal to plant crops like tobacco‚ cotton‚ rice‚ and indigo. Because farm work was so profitable to the Southerners‚ 80 percent of the southern population was working on farms. The northern soil and climate did not favor

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