... considerations. Individualistic political culture promotes strong party organizations, with long-term party loyalty expected of voters and political office seekers. Millions of Americans moved westward during the nineteenth century. Along with these people, political cultures also spread towards the west. By 1840, the frontier of settlement had reached as far west as southern Michigan and Wisconsin ... , Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas. Many westward migrants were motivated by the availability of cheap land. Throughout the nineteenth century, government policy encouraged the distribut...

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... who favored the abolition of slavery. Abolitionists came from various types of backgrounds and many were Caucasian and women. Black and white abolitionists in the first half of the nineteenth century waged a biracial assault against slavery. Their efforts proved to be extremely effective. Abolitionists focused attention on slavery and made it difficult to ignore. They heightened the rift that ... the earliest to protest the African slave trade, the perpetual bondage of its captives, and the practice of separating enslaved family members by sale to different masters. As the nineteenth cen...

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... critical to the Southern economy, and the critical need for cotton came with the urgent dependence on slavery. The economies of the North and South had developed differently over the nineteenth century. Although both economies started as mostly agricultural, the North, unlike the South, began developing industry and commerce. The growth of industry in the North helped lead to the rapid growth ... developing for decades. As America evolved Southern states and their representation argued for powerful state rights to protect the interest of farmers. The Southern representation at the turn ...

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... was a government based on a charter that said that all men are created equal with an equal right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but a society which by the nineteenth century was the largest slave holding country in the world (qtd in Ferris 9)". The institution of slavery had been introduced into America in the Colonial times. We had fought the Revolutionary ... ...

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