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 * 1) What was the differences between the North and the South? ~ Northern cities had more wealth and manufacturing that attracted skilled workers. In the South farming was the major activity. The South grew tobacco, sugarcane, rice, and cotton these products were usually exported to Europe, however most of the work was done by slaves.
 * 2) Reasons for these differences? ~ T he Northern states had more factories while the Southern states had better land to grow crops on. The North didn't believe in slaves while the South believed heavily in slaves. The North also had a bunch of rail roads while the South had very few.
 * 3) How did slavery led to the war? ~ The South wanted the North to become slave states to but the North refused. When Abraham Lincoln was elected president running off of a platform opposing slavery the South started to secede from the Union.
 * 4) The Emancipation Proclamation? ~ On September 22, 1862, Lincoln had issued a preliminary proclamation that he would order the emancipation of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States of America that did not return to Union control by January 1, 1863. None returned, and the order, signed and issued January 1, 1863, took effect except in locations where the Union had already mostly regained control. The Proclamation did not compensate the owners, did not itself outlaw slavery, and did not make the ex-slaves citizens. It made the eradication of slavery an explicit war goal, in addition to the goal of reuniting the Union.
 * 5) Abolitionists? ~ Some Abolitionist are William Lloyd Garrison who published The Liberator. He used The Liberator to tell people that slavery was wrong. Harriet Tubman who lead the slaves on the Underground Railroad to freedom was also a Abolitionist. An Abolitionist is a person who wants to end slavery.
 * 6) Changes to the Constitution? ~ 13th amendment states that slavery was to be outlawed. The 14th amendment states all blacks have the right to a citizenship in America. The 15th amendment stated that black men had the right to vote.

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 * What caused the differences between the North and the South with issues of slavery? ~ The south believed that slavery was acceptable and that slaves were property and did not consider them people. The north thought that people should not be kept as slaves so, they made their states free. The south, however, did not make their states free and in the south it was still legal to own and work slaves. People in the North were paid while people in the south were forced to work.