Kellie Bowden Mr. Strough APUSH 1 April 2013 During the period of the Civil War‚ the typical American business was a small‚ family owned company and it usually produced goods for a smaller‚ regional market. However‚ as the Civil War ended‚ big businesses began to dominate the corporate world. Many businesses‚ such as the Standard Oil Co. and Carnegie Steel‚ became monopolies and owned all parts of one particular industry. These huge firms were able to mass produce their products and sell them
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Harriet Tubman lived her life helping others achieve freedom. She was a conductor on the underground railroad and a leading abolitionist. She was viewed as a hero of the African-American community and more. Imagine being twelve and separated from your family. As a young child‚ Harriet was sold at least five times. Each time she was beat up giving her scars for the rest of her life. Even though she was a child she was doing jobs of an adult. For example‚ at the age of five Harriet was given the
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The Minie ball greatly influenced the Civil War‚ causing many people to die‚ and changes in many other areas. Like all the wars before it‚ during the Civil War many large technological breakthroughs occurred. One of the biggest‚ and most influential changes for personal weapons was the evolution from the smoothbore muskets to rifles‚ and even more so‚ the Minie ball that allowed the rifling to realistically be used in a battle situation. The bullets also had another plus: causing huge damage to anyone
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The Civil War and Reconstruction made significant progress towards creating a more equal society. First of all‚ after the Civil War‚ the 13th‚ 14th‚ and 15th Amendments not only freed the enslaved‚ but gave them rights and allowed them to vote. The progress made was incredible and it was really done in a very short amount of time. The enslaved were now able to participate in government‚ work‚ own land‚ etc. We see‚ firstly‚ the 13th Amendment‚ which abolished slavery. Immediately‚ the Amendment
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The Great Migration was about mostly former slaves who move from the south to northern cities‚ like New York and Chicago.This all started before World War I which was technically the first migration.This also took place during prohibitions . The migrations also led to the Harlem Renaissance. The Great Depression came in during the 30’s and that’s when it ended the first wave of migration because everyone was suffering. The second wave of migration came in after the second world war.They mostly
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enterprises as well. Just before the civil war "nearly 4 million slaves with a market value close to $4 billion lived in the United States." These slaves were very valuable property. For their labor is what allowed the United States to flourish economically. This valuable property required rules to protect it‚ to maintain the economic progress that resulted from slave labor. The legal status of slaves were based primarily on their owners and their owners decisions. Slave owners had the choice of allowing
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In the early stages of America’s life‚ not all races benefitted from the new country’s promise of freedom and opportunity. Beginning in 1619‚ white european settlers shipped‚ bought‚ and sold Africans in order to “meet the colonies’ need for cheap labor” (Barkley 59). Know today as the Transatlantic Slave Trade‚ this forced exchange of human labor “helped build the economic foundations of the new nation” by providing an enormous amount of workers for specifically southern rice‚ tobacco‚ and indigo
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*Why did the South secede? Would the North have acquiesced in peaceful coexistence if the South had not fired on Fort Sumter? Today everyone says the reason the South left the Union was; Slavery. Slavery was not the only factor that led the South to secede. In fact‚ some of the wealthiest slaveholders opposed secession. They believed‚ for good reason‚ that slavery would actually be safer in the Union than out of it. Most people aren’t aware that‚ even as president‚ Lincoln supported a proposed
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Between 1915 and 1920 African Americans saw the greatest changes since the Civil War. In those five years‚ over 700‚000 southern African Americans moved northward‚ lured by the opportunities presented to them in cities such as Chicago and Detroit. As the U.S. geared for the first World War‚ African Americans filled the labor shortages created in the North. The U.S. entered the Civil War in 1917. Thousands of Black soldiers enlisted. They believed President Woodrow Wilson when he said "out of this
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Less than one hundred years after the United States gained independence‚ the American Civil War began. This fight was between the North who at the start wanted to reestablish the Union and the South who wanted to create their own country so they could do as they pleased. In the end‚ the North won. This was not without hundreds of thousands of casualties on both sides‚ the Civil War is widely known as the war with the most American deaths of all time. By the end of the war‚ the North was fighting for
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