In the later 1700’s to 1863, slavery was an intricate part of the South. Slaves were needed for plantation work like planting, caring for, and harvesting crops to maintaining the land. After Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, more slaves were needed to keep up with the increased cotton production. In the South their belief was African-Americans were property. On the other hand, the North’s economy was based on industry and manufacturing powered by European immigrants. They believed slavery was wrong and inhumane and African-Americans are just as human as everybody els

On the other hand, the northern ideals flourished. Northern industry expanded during the war and continued to grow stabling the economy. The northern political party, Republicans, became the dominant political party because of the Union army victory. With the North’s victory, their thoughts and ideas took over all throughout the nation.

At the end of the Civil War, the Union army over powered the Confederate army and won. This brought the end to slavery in the South and all throughout the nation. With no more slaves to work the southern plantation crops, their economy was devastated. Their economy was based on farming and agriculture, leading to homeless and jobless Confederate soldiers and slaves.

In May of 1856, Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina entered the nearly empty senate chamber and beat Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner with a cane. Brooks felt violated by Sumner’s “Crime against Kansas” speech, which provoked the retaliation. This attack spread the idea that violence might be able to solve the problem of slavery. In

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