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THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR - Coggle Diagram
THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
NORTH AND SOUTH
North: industries, more population (more white people due to immigrants from Europe), emancipation (1830)
South: plantation of tobacco and cotton, slavery, less population (4 million black slaves), rigid class system (aristocracy of plantation owners)
conflict between
abolitionists (writers, intellectuals, religious assosciationss) attacked the exploitation of slaves, the separation from their family, cruelty
supporters of slavery: claimed that slavery was an istitution that gave blacks employment, protection and taught them the principles of Christian faith
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THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY
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some moved to the North, others stayed in the South with their old masters (who could not affort to pay wages, but provided them with tools and a cabin)
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creation of the "black code": segregated blacks in schools, hospitals and means of transport
THE AMERICAN DREAM
in the North factories increased (coal, copper, iron, oil were fully exploited)
the "American dream": the myth of the self-made man who went from "rags to riches" (ex. Cornelius Vanderbilt, John Rockefeller)
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