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    In “How Different from Each Other Were the Antebellum North and South”‚ Edward Pessen argues that the North and South were similar but fundamentally different. They were similar in most of the aspects of common life such as; economy‚ social structure‚ and politics. The North and South were both centered around agriculture. They were both centered around a‚ agriculture‚ which supported most of the economy before the market revolution. Northern farms mostly grew grains and corn‚ while the southern

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    Slavery and the Economy Over the course of history‚ historians have viewed slavery as an immoral and unjustifiable institution. At the beginning of the antebellum period‚ around 700‚000 slaves were unjustly imported and sold into slavery. New land discovered in America was seen as profitless and pointless without an inexpensive source of labor. By the end of this historical time period‚ that number increased to over 4‚000‚000 slaves brought into the United States. The institution of slavery helped

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    and Treatment in GB 1986 Sudan Crisis (1884-1885) 1987 Literacy in Old Regime France 1988 Gin Act in G.B.; 18th c. social history 1989 Women’s Status/Suffrage in late 19th/early 20th c. 1990 Spanish Civil War 1991 Anti-slavery during the Enlightenment and French Revolution 1992 Pan-Slavism 1993 Renaissance Education

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    DBQ            As the Second Great Awakening sprung up in Antebellum America during the early 1800s‚ a time of new ideas and change came upon the nation. The religious revival promoted emotionalism in Americans‚ sparking a chain of social reforms. These reforms sought to shape the moralities of Americans and gain liberty for those in need of it--expanding democratic ideals. In political aspects‚ major reforms such as the abolition movement and the women’s movement aspired to lawfully gain natural

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    Antebellum America (Educational Reform) During the Antebellum period‚ education was not a primary focus. Education was not all that important because everything seemed to be set in stone. The children of the wealthy would get the best possible education in private schools and academies‚ and would learn about business. This would prepare them for their inherited future. The children of the poor on the other hand would go to public schools which taught trade and industrial skills‚ which would prepare

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    PERIOD FEATURES REMARKABLE CHANGES PRE-SPANISH PERIOD Do not have an organized system of education as we have now. They followed their code of laws “the Code of Kalantiao and Maragtas. Ideas and facts were acquired through suggestion‚ observation‚ example and imitation. The youngsters learned by experienced and the learned more in occupational. The inhabitants were civilized people‚ possessing their system of writing‚ laws and moral standards in a well-organized system of government

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    Development of American Slavery Colonial Period First‚ American slavery has been credited with the persistent racism especially targeting the black people or African Americans. It is worth noting that one of the key aspects of slavery during the colonial period revolved around consideration of Africans as inferior human beings whose intellectual capabilities were regarded lower than those of other races such as whites. Indeed‚ African Americans could only be used for carrying out the tasks

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    At the beginning of the antebellum age Christianity was heaven bent on reforming sexual attitudes to be rooted in righteous dogma. In the eyes of Christian leadership young‚ innocent‚ growing America had the chance to create a true idealized Christian society. As the Christian leadership noticed that people were losing their bearings on the path toward an idealized holy purpose‚ they armed themselves with rhetoric and searched for the perpetrators that caused the degradation. As time passed and the

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    Gender and Slavery in America Deborah Gray White’s “Ar’n’t I a Woman?” attempts to illustrate and expose the under-examined world in which bonded‚ antebellum women lived. She distinguishes the way slave women were treated from both their male counterparts and white antebellum women by elucidating their unique race and gender predisposed circumstances‚ “(…) black women suffer a double oppression: that shared by all African-Americans and that shared by most women” (p. 23). In all‚ black women suffered

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    Essay #2 Origins of Anti-slavery and Pro-slaver The origins of the anti-slavery and pro-slavery arguments during the antebellum period and even ongoing into the Age of Jackson had to do with religious‚ moral and economical conflicts and differences in the North and South of the United States. Many of which were caused by new inventions that lead to industrialization‚ the new constitution that created new parties and strengthened the Nationalist. In the anti-slavery argument early abolitionists

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