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Transcendentalism is the fact that people should go beyond the thinking of other people and use their own logical thinking to create a true understanding.

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One of the most famous transcendentalists was Ralph Waldo Emerson. In Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson found answers to his spiritual doubts.

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Many people knew the fact that alcohol abuse is tied with domestic abuse. So people tried to get people to stop drinking alcohol and made them sign petitions. After alcohol was made illegal crime rates went way up so the government decided to legalized alcohol again.

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People could be put in prison because of their mental illness and not acting normal which was not right. Dorothea Dix wanted to make prisons more sanitary and humane she also built asylums for the mentally ill instead of sending them to prison.

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Public schools were started so people who were not rich could go to school too.The public schools were also not about religion. People came upon this decision after learning that many Americans could not read or write. Horace Mann was a famous education reformer. Colleges were created to train teachers and create textbooks.

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The leaders of the women's rights movement were mostly women and were always seen as the lower class so nobody cared or toke them seriously.

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New inventions revolutionized the way people live, like the telegraph. The Erie canal was opened for trade and the steam boat was created South was beginning to grow cotton which brought them to buy more slaves. People were worried that the south would gain more power from states wanting slavery.

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The North was developing a lot, with a ton of railways which led to efficiency in transportation and they had the Erie canal which could transport things and no slaves. In the south they had none of these things.

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Abolition reform was to fight slavery. The reason this one worked so well us because the leaders were all diverse in this group, black white rich poor women and men could be leaders.

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Life in the the North was not great, it was overcrowding with Irish and German settlers, There were many diseases being spread because of the poor sewage systems and filthy streets, and Their were many fires and not trained fireman.

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Many new Inventions came to the south that would help people become more efficient, like the Erie Canal, the telegraph and the sewing machine.

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In the south was the perfect land for farming, so they grew cotton which led them to want slaves to work for them so they could make more money.

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The north had hot and humid summers and freezing cold winters. The different areas in the north had different distinct features.

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The south were farmers and provided clothes and food for the country. Because of this the south got really rich and it was because the  slaves were doing the hard work.

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River travel was the most common form of transportation most southern cities and towns sprang up on waterways.

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When a slave ran away signs would show up everywhere. The descriptions on the signs were terrible they would call them terrible words too. And people would get money for turning in the slaves.

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About 6% of African Americans in the south were free. These 6% had few rights and had a hard life as well as the slaves. The difference was the free African Americans had to find one of the few jobs they were allowed to do. Free slaves could also not testify in court and is still not considered a person.

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The Missouri compromise happened when Missouri wanted to become a slave state The north did not want their balance to become uneven so they added Maine to the free states.

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because of the 1850 compromise the south wanted in return the Underground railroad in the north to be shut down, slaves to not testify in court and slave catcher were allowed to catch runaway slaves in the north.

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In 1850 the North wanted to solve some things. So henry Clay preseted to the representatives the terms which were California was a free state, Utah and New Mexico territory voted on if they were a slave or free state and no slave trade was allowed in Washington D.C.

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Many pro slavery activists and anti slavery activists came to Kansas. These people went to Kansas to vote because after the Nebraska Kansas act the slave issue was determined by popular sovereignty and so both sides on slavery went to vote. This erupted violence and for two years people fought and eventually Kansas joined the union.

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Lincoln, who was elected in 1860 refused to give any government forts to the confederate states. Fort Sumter located in South Carolina caused a fight to happen and the confederate states and union states fought over fort Sumter. The union surrendered and the confederate won fort Sumter.

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They had a large number of people, 22 million. One more Advantage the Union had was 90% of industrial goods were made there and the union controlled the military.

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One of the confederate advantages were they had excellent generals and farmers were better in the military than the industrial workers that the Union had. Also the Union knew they had to fight a offensive war and defensive was always easier because of familiar land etc.

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People believed that the war would be very quick but they were wrong. Many people packed picnics to watch the first battle. Fight to keep the nation together and free slaves.

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The Union victory had come with a price, more American losses than the Vietnam war, WW1 and WW2. The Southern territory was also ruined.

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Easy victory expected on both sides and the North ran away and the south were too tired to run after them. People realized that this was not going to be an easy war, the people who brought picnics were in danger of dying and many did.

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This was the bloodiest day of the war, with no clear winner because both sides were devastated. about 12,000 Union and 14,000 confederate soldiers died

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Lincoln freed the slaves in the south, which was a different country. But, it helped by allowing African Americans to fight in the war, gave Lincoln power and helped Briton not side with the south.

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1/3 of the Confederate army died, the Union won. the Union had a full frontal attack and the south took the union out line after line.

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Women would dress like men and fight in the war as a man this is more dangerous for them because if they were caught they were in danger. About 400 women did this

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The Confederate surrendered after four bloody years. after this people sent the message to the south that war was bad and they demolished the southern land to send the message.