... languages. Many others are often spoken but not widespread. English is generally understood across the country. It is one of the eleven common spoken languages but it only ranks 5th out of the eleven spoken languages. During the 15th and the 19th century major changes had happened to the African and North American continents. Europeans ventured to Africa where they began a trans-Atlantic slave trade. ... slaves worked on tobacco plantations and large farms. Working in a tobacco plantation was one of the hardest things to do. It was an eleven month crop, which had four different stages t...

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... , creating the middle class. The middle class represented almost 65% of the population of the North, until the start of the Industrial Revolution. The South's economy revolved around the plantation. Plantation owners were wealthy, but few in numbers, yet they held the majority of the land in the south. Slave labor drove the plantations of the South. The differences between the regions were small and insignificant during the colonial era ... in Congress and on the American people. During the election of 1848, political parties were divided on voting. They voted strictly along sectional li...

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... was no use for these advantages. Westward expansion and colonization defined sectional differences even more. The Southerners were now a cotton economy with Negro slaves, and this was the biggest difference from the North. The spread of cotton and slavery was more profitable to the Southern states being united with the industrial North. "The South, "said Alexander H. Stephens, vice-president of the Confederacy, "is my home ... compared the American Revolution to the Civil War and called the Battle of Big Bethel, "The Lexington of the war." (Norris, 5) Big Bethel was soon overshadowed by t...

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