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5 days ago · Before the Civil War, the economic differences between the North and South were significant. The North had a more diversified economy, with sectors such as agriculture, commercial, manufacturing, financial, and transportation.
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3 days ago · Defined by both cultural vibrancy and widespread poverty, and marked by a long and complex history of trade, migration, cultural exchange, and slavery, the literature of the U.S. South is born of the intricacies of a complex, polymorphous history and culture. The 19th century was a particularly tumultuous period, as the region experienced the ...
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2 days ago · Slavery, Capitalism, and the Politics of Abolition. By. Alec Israeli. Slavery in America, Brazil, and Cuba relied on capitalist markets, which supplied credit and demand for slave-made goods. The Reckoning, Robin Blackburn’s monumental history, offers a dizzying account of the politics behind this system’s rise and fall.
3 days ago · History. Starting in the early 1600s and lasting to the mid-1800s, slavery played an outsized role in shaping the culture, politics, and economy of the South. This included its agricultural practices, the outbreak of the American Civil War, and ensuing segregation in the United States.
5 days ago · The sudden influx of gold into the money supply reinvigorated the American economy; the sudden population increase allowed California to go rapidly to statehood in the Compromise of 1850. The Gold Rush had severe effects on Native Californians and accelerated the Native American population's decline from disease, starvation, and the California ...
- January 24, 1848–1855
- 300,000 prospectors
1 day ago · The Southern United States, sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States of America. It is between the Atlantic Ocean and the Western United States, with the Midwestern and Northeastern United States to its ...
4 days ago · The city directory for 1900 listed six forewomen in the mills, the majority employed in the smaller hosiery and knitting mills. Only one of the six, Vermont-born Ida E. Brown, worked in one of the city’s larger cotton corporation factories, the Merrimack Mills. Brown spent nearly 40 years as an overseer finally retiring in the early 1930s.10.
