The North's economy was based on Industry and Trade. ... The South's economy was based on Agriculture. ... The political issue which divided the north and south were: Who strong should the central government be? The South wanted a weak central government and more control in the states North wanted a strong central government which could help regulate trade and promote inducstry. ... Slavery was abolished; however, the balance of power between the states and the Federal government remained a problem that had to be solved in the United State's Reconstruction period. ...

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Government some type of reparation for slavery and it was never received by slaves. ... Why should the government make a promise that it does not keep? ... That's what the government did to African-American's. ... Others forms of reparations include formal apologies and changes in government policy. ... However, American slavery was based on race (news.org). ...

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Another plan was President Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan, which allowed a government to be based on the faithfulness of one-tenth of the white males. ... It was "an act to provide for the more efficient government in the Rebel States." Radical Republicans refused to recognize the Southern state governments, and decided to draw up the Reconstruction Act of 1867. This act stated that there was no legal government in any of the Ex-Confederate states except Tennessee. ... All of these acts of courage paid off when the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964 to guarantee civil liberties, and to p...

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On the other hand, the northern economy was based more on industry than agriculture. ... The South was based on the plantation system while the North was focused on city life. ... The thirteen states formed a loose confederation with a very weak federal government. ... The federal government denied states this right. ... The north had a base of manufacturing which the South lacked. ...

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Another problem that we have been experienced is that we North Carolina think that the votes should be based on population. ... I don't believe that North Carolina lacked national unity and I strongly believe we had no strong federal government. ... I"m going to stand my ground on that I think voting should be based on population because we have a lot of people in our community and I"m sure the people here in North Carolina may have different opinion on a law. ...

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It prohibited the federal and state governments from preventing a citizen from voting based on their race, color, or condition of servitude. ... After it was over four years later, the confederacy collapsed, slavery became abolished and the United States government occupied the south. ... This case narrowly defined the terms of the 15th amendment that probated the government from stopping anyone to vote based on their race, color, or condition of servitude. ...

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George Washington once said "The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitution of government.... Another example would be the Lebanese Civil war, in which both the Sunnis and the Shiites, two religious communities fought for government control. ... In the book The Epic of America written by James Truslow Adams in 1931 stated that The American Dream was one many immigrants have of a land in which life should be better for each person based on their ability and their achievements. ... Being an American, also means you have an equal chance a...

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Smith delves into how levels of government operate to mediate conflicts with the struggles of interest groups and elected officials. ... Political officials, state, local and federal government officials, commissions, and other parts of the American bureaucracy were features. ... He sees the American government as a complex machine that has a high degree of maintenance from its citizens. ... Felix's constitutional based arguments are particularly interesting. ... I found it hard to find parallels between his thoughts and the government today. ...

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The Civil War became inevitable with the election of Abraham Lincoln during the 1860 presidential election. Due to Lincoln's victory, South Carolina secede from the nation. As South Carolina seceded, other southern states began to secede. The secession of southern states lead to an alliance called t...

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Any interfere would be threat to our government. ... In 1873 U.S and Hawaii government signs a commercial treaty. ... So government pass the law that stop tax free on sugar. ... Cuba has to lease their naval base to U.S. ...

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I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. ... "In the year 1765, that portion of the British Empire embracing Great Britain undertook to make laws for the Government of that portion composed of the thirteen American Colonies. A struggle for the right of self-government ensued, which resulted, on the fourth of July, 1776, in a Declaration, by the Colonies, "that they are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; . . ."" ... The colonies at that time feared a strong Federal Government, and worked to assure states rights ...

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The industrial based economy of the north, they were able to produce finished goods, and exported heavily. ... The North, being more industrialized had a greater need for a stronger, more centralized government which would benefit them. The South, always being strong state rights advocates felt that the states should remain more powerful than the central U.S. government. ...

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Even though there was not a lot of access to files owned by the government, the files that he could get his hands on were Winkler's best sources. ... He tries to form his opinions based solely on hard facts. ... Winkler formed this conclusion based on factual evidence and not just his personal opinions. ...

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One of the definitions of the adjective social is of, or pertaining to or based on rank of status in a particular society. ... They wanted to grant the federal government increased powers. ... The North also wanted internal improvements sponsored by the federal government. ... Based on an inspiring true story, The Lost Battalion recreates the life and death action of the first Great War, however seems to focus on death and negativity. ...

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In the south, Reconstruction meant rebuilding the economy, establishing new state and local governments and a new social structure between whites and newly freed African Americans. ... The Freedman's Bureau was an agency of the Federal government set up in 1865 to help former slaves and other persons suffering from the effects of the Civil War. ...

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I understand why it did take so long to figure out what we should do about this issue because everyone does have there own opinions and it is the governments job to make the right decision not based on emotion. ...

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Calhoun said that the North has the unfair advantage in every aspect of the federal government because they have more states and a bigger population, which gives them an advantage in the House of Representatives. He stated the South couldn't protect itself in government the only solution for the South was to succeed. ... Calhoun believed if the North refused to cooperate and share government powers with the South then there will be a peaceful succession. ... Seward believed California to be a state strictly based off of its size, which was another country compared to Rhode Island. ...

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The north and the south had been divided and didn't know how to come back together again without intervention from the government. ... Once that state reached ten percent of the people taking oath, the state could form a state government. President Johnson's plan was based mostly the same as President Lincoln's except he didn't think that the southern states had ever been out of the Union, and there were to be no trials for treason. ... These new immigrants were darker skinned then the old immigrants, were illiterate and were unfamiliar with constitutional governments. ...

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The following quote is from blacks who passed a resolution: "Our feelings urge us to say to our countrymen that we are ready to stand by and defend our government as the equals of its white defenders; to do so with our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor, for the sake of freedom, and as good citizens; and we ask that you modify your laws, that we may enlist "that full scope may be given to the patriotic feelings burning in the colored man's breast."" ... During World War civil rights groups pressed the government to provide training for black pilots on an equal basis with whit...

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A rural way of life that supported an agrian economy based on slave labor was quickly established in the South. ... They enjoyed a prosperous agricultural economy based on slave labor and wished to keep their old way of life. ... Many Southerners favored secession as part of the idea that the states have rights and powers which the federal government cannot legally deny. ... over all departments of Government and now, as our reward, this slave-holding power comes with sword, gun, and cannon to take the life of the nation and overthrow the great American Government (Long 26). ... At the clos...

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Civil Disobedience is the refusal to obey the laws which are seen as unjust in an effort to bring about a chnage in governmental policy. ... Slavery was not said to be illegal by the government until January 1, 1863 in the middle of the Civil War by President Abraham Lincoln in an document known as the Emancipation Proclamation. ... In the 1940's and 50's things changed, not because attitudes in the south wsa changing, but because the government forced them to. ... Practitioners of Civil Disobedience basing their actions on moral right, and usually employ the ...

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The Republican Party, dominant in the North, secured a majority of the electoral votes, and Lincoln was elected the first Republican president, but before his inauguration, seven slave states with cotton-based economies formed the Confederacy. ... Rejecting the arguments for federal authority or self-government, state sovereignty would empower states to promote the expansion of slavery as part of the Federal Union under the U.S. ... These states agreed to form a new federal government, the Confederate States of America, on February 4, 1861. ...

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Simmons was influenced by the film, Birth of a Nation, which was a film based on the Thomas Dixon's book," The Ku Klux Klan". Once white government was established in the South Klan members began wearing white masks and white cardboard hats and draped in white sheets and started killing African Americans who returned from the dead to get revenge against their enemies. ...

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The United States government highlighted an ambition reconstruction plan. ... (Escott, Goldfield, McMillen, & Hayes-Turner, 1999, p. 91)" Grady, as well as other minds of his time, prophesied an agricultural society based around the growth of several crops rather than one. ... (Escott, Goldfield, McMillen, & Hayes-Turner, 1999, p. 339)" In addition to the push for industrial improvements and the spread of government contracts to build southern military bases, they would both be integral to the spread of northern philosophies and culture to the South and the same for the South spreading to the ...

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Barton eventually received a Congressional appropriation to run what was known as the Missing Soldiers Office and became the first woman to head a government bureau. ... The Commission set up a training base for the female recruits at David's Island Hospital in New York, and Gibbons was among them. ... When a site opened for the government at Point Lookout MD, a hotel and 100 cottages were refurbished to create an elaborate hospital complex with accommodations for 1,500 soldiers. ...

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