... , most notably the Tara set, Scarlett's family and spiritual home. When designing the sets, researchers consulted period photographs particularly for the 1864 Atlanta set, whereas the Tara set was more free to the producers imagination. Despite the novels depiction of Tara being a fairly ordinary home, as opposed to the stereotypical grandness usually associated with the south, Selznick had grander ideas in ... over the years from lo0ckets, chocolates, brooches, perfume, nail polish and Rhett Butler bow-ties. The die-hard Gone with the wind fan could purchase dolls, cookbooks, jigsaw puz...

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... 1860 the figures were 26 percent and 10 percent, respectively. In 1800, 82 percent of the Southern labor force worked in agriculture compared with the 68 percent in the Free states. By 1860 the Northern share had dropped to 40 percent while the Southern proportion had actually increased slightly to 84 percent. Southern agriculture remained traditionally labor intensive while Northern ... but from choices of Southerners who had money to invest it in agriculture and slaves rather than human manufacturing, according to James McPherson. Due to this difference in industrialization, the Free s...

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... and by limiting its expansion, it would leave the federal territories as a "whites-only preserve", although another argument from Lincoln is that it threatened to limit opportunity of free white labor which was also delivered in his Coopers Union Speech. His thoughts on race did influence the expansion of slavery into the territories, however at the end of the ... territories. This act replaced the 36' 30' Line from the Missouri Compromise of 1820, to the idea that popular sovereignty could be decided into which state would come in as a free state or a slave state. This ended the contai...

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