Today we continued with our final blog discussions. I went first.
17. "Describe major events, compromises, and instances leading up to the Civil War." There was lots of slavery in the 1770s, and the United States was split North and South. The North didn't want slavery but the South did, so it caused an argument. In 1787 every state north of the Mason Dixon line couldn't practice slavery. The North became the free states and the South the slave states. Whenever a state wanted to join, it disrupted the balance, or equality, of slave and free states. Maine became a free state and Missouri became a slave state. Popular Sovereignty is where new states could vote whether they could be free or slave. The Kansas-Nebraska act, deciding whether to make the states free or slave, came along with that. Nebraska was considered North and Kansas considered South. In 1854 there were 3 million slaves in the United States. Many people from Missouri moved to Kansas trying to make it slave state, and were successful. Kansas gained the nickname ‘Bloody Kansas’. Forts were set up in the South by the North. Firing started at Ft. Sumter. When Lincoln was elected president, the South started to leave the United States because they were afraid he was going to get rid of slavery.
18. “Describe the advantages of the North and South during the Civil War.” The North was more industrialized than the South. They had more cities and factories. They had better weapons and had more population than the South. They had a lot of railroads that deployed troops and supplies faster. They also had more food and farm anchorages. The South had a bigger advantage in the war because most of it was fought on their territory and they had better generals. The South had better connections with other countries, especially Britain. They also had a better cause to fight, because if they lost they would loose their slaves, although the reason wasn’t the greatest for all. The North won the war.
19. “Give positive and negative effects reconstruction had on the Untied States.” Reconstruction after the Civil War included that the South had to be rebuilt physically (cities and farms were destroyed), socially (husbands were lost, slaves were free), economically (the whole economy, slavery, is gone), and African Americans were now free and they can’t read or write. Freedman’s Bureau was set up shortly after the Civil War. It helped African Americans get medical degrees, educational degrees, give them food, shelter, etc. Some African Americans got elected to state and federal government thanks to it. Northerners took over the southern government and did some re-writing to allow African Americans to be more like whites. The thirteenth, fourteenth (made blacks U.S. citizens) and fifteenth (gave minority males the right to vote) amendments are very important.
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