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1. Compare and Contrast the labor systems of the Northern and Southern United States.
2. Compare the various forms of anti-slavery movements: slave uprisings, abolition, and gradual abolition.
Kelsey Minick
Topic 12
The North and South differed in their work production with the north being focused on factories and industrilization; whereas the south focused on agricultural and growth in plantations. “By 1815, cotton was the most valuable export in the United States; by 1840, it was worth more than all other exports combined. But while the southern states produced two-thirds of the world’s supply of cotton, the South had little manufacturing capability, about 29 percent of the railroad tracks, and only 13 percent of the nation’s banks. The South did experiment with using slave labor in manufacturing, but for the most part it was well satisfied with its agricultural economy” ( US Department of the Interior). The impact on the north was done via the immigrants coming in by shiploads for the “american dream.”
Pressure had been placed on the government officials to push for slavery to abolished in the current states and following ones to come. Uprisings were formed by slaves which began placing fear and pressure on the owners especially in the deep south. The first movement for abolishment was the gradual abolition lead by the General Assembly, but in a way to please the owners on the plantations. It would overrule slavery but at a slow and almost unnoticable pace to the less educated. the abolitionist movement ran from 1830 to 1870 and was the largest movement going against slavery at the time. They took the ideas of how shameful slavery was all the way up to the polititans. “Historians believe ideas set forth during the religious movement known as the Second Great Awakening inspired abolitionists to rise up against slavery. This Protestant revival encouraged the concept of adopting renewed morals, which centered around the idea that all men are created equal in the eyes of God” ( History.com).
Sources:
History.com Editors. (2009, October 27). Abolitionist movement. History.com. Retrieved April 30, 2022, from https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/abolitionist-movement
U.S. Department of the Interior. (n.d.). Industry and economy during the Civil War (U.S. National Park Service). National Parks Service. Retrieved April 30, 2022, from https://www.nps.gov/articles/industry-and-economy-during-the-civil-war.htm
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