Today we started with blog discussions
16.Describe reasons why people moved westward:
-wanted adventure
-wanted own space
-East was crowded
-purchase more land
-less competition
-Gold Rush
17.Describe major events, compromises, and incidents leading up to the civil war:
-slavery
-Missouri Compromise
-Compromise of 1850
-new states could vote to be free or slave, popular sovereignty
-Kansas, Nebraska act
-election of Abraham Lincoln
-South succeeded
18.Describe the advantages of the North and South during the civil war:
-North- more industrialized, more populated, better weapons
-South- familiar with land, better generals
19.Give positive and negative effects reconstruction had on the U.S.:
-Positives:
-cities and farms
-socialy
-economically
-Freedman Bureau- train, educate, house, and feed African Americans
-13th amendment abolished slavery
-14th amendement made African Americans U.S. citizens
-15th amendment gave African American men the right to vote
-Negatives:
-kkk developed
-reconstruction ended after 12 years and southern racists took back power
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