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U.S. History
The time up to the mid 1800s was not easy for early america. The divide between the
north and the south were growing day by day and the two were starting to fight against each
other. The only way this would end was not with words but with war. There were many causes to
The main difference between the north and the south is how they made there money and
their status on slavery the north found slavery to be cruel and horrible and the south saw it as an
everyday part of life. These two perspectives lead to lots of propaganda being spread against
each other. An example of this can be found in station E were Abolitionist fighting for the
freedom of slaves in virginia created posters stating that all men were created equally and that
people should participate in a no slavery fourth of July. filler was there even before this with
things such as the missouri compromise happening in the early 1820s. During this time the
territory of missouri wanted to become a fully fledged state in the United States. The problem
with this is that if this were to happen then there would be a imbalance meaning that there would
be more slave states than free states. This lead to the compromise were missouri would be
allowed to become a state if maine could as well. Another part of this compromise was that any
new state added below thirty six and thirty minutes latitude. A part of compromise can be found
in station A where it states “That in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under
the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude,
not included within the limits of the state, contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary
(forced) servitude”
At this point the north and the south were different in so many ways but I feel than on of
the more impactful dirences was the political stance that each half of the country took. An
example of this turing into action between the two can be seen in the election of abraham lincoln.
Lincoln's main objective was not to end slavery; he aimed to unify the us into either fully
backing slavery or eliminating it. As the north had a greater population and more influence than
the south the more likely of the two was elimination. Lincoln was more favored in the north for
this reason but not everyone in the north liked him, not because they were for slavery but
because they felt that Lincoln wasn't being hard enough on slavery. Lincoln's presidency was a
far bigger deal in the south were they took him as a direcrect threat to the way the south made its
money. As a result states started to secession from the United states. The first state to do this was
South Carolina apart of this decoration can be found in sation I where it states this “The people
of the State of South Carolina…[have] declared that the frequent violations of the Constitution of
the United States, by the Federal Government, and its encroachments upon the reserved rights of
the States, fully justified this State in then withdrawing from the Federal Union”