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The North and the South had many economic differences. The biggest difference was that the North was more on factory and manufacturing. Meanwhile, the South was about farming and crops. -
Abolitionists were people from the North who believed that slavery should be banned. They thought slavery was a horrid thing that was going on in the south and wanted to stop it no matter what even if it meant war. -
The Compromise of 1850 made California a free state and legalized slavery in New Mexico and Utah. It also allowed any territory gained from the Mexican-American war to choose if they wanted to be a free or slave state. -
The fugitive slave act is a law passed that allowed escaped slaves to get returned to their owners even if they escaped to the South. -
It was during the election that Abraham Lincoln became president. The South didn't like that because Abraham was an abolitionist. They thought he would ban slavery and then they wouldn't have any slaves to pick their crops or take care of them. -
The civil war started with Confederate troops firing in Fort Sumter in South Carolina´s Charleston harbor on April 12, 1861. -
The end of the civil war is when the North finally beat the South. The civil war accomplished more than 4 million slaves were free and were able to get an education and be with their families. -
Five days after the war Abraham Lincoln attended a play. It was the Ford Theater in Washington, D.C. His murderer was an actor named John Wilks Booth. He thought if he assassinated Lincoln he would somehow save slavery and the Confederacy. With Lincoln dead, the nation was put in the vice president's hands, Andrew Johnson. -
It was hard getting the states back together but after some time they were at peace. Even though the southern states still wanted/needed slavery they had to work around it and start paying people to work on their crops. -
The Reconstruction Act of 1867 separated the southern states into 5 military districts each governed by a general. They required Southern states to guarantee black suffrage and to disfranchise many former confederates. The southern states were required to ratify the 14th Amendment in order to show their loyalty to the Union. -
These laws were a collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation. It also took away the right to let colored people vote, and get a nice job, a better education, and more opportunities. All of these laws took away most of the African American people's rights. -
The Panic of 1873 triggered the first great depression in the United States and abroad. It lasted a year and then was known as the long depression after the stock market crash in 1929.