The Civil WarAlmost 55 years ago, America as a country witnessed the Civil War. The war divided America into two separate groups, the North (Union) and the South (Confederacy) who fought against each other for 5 years straight. Blinded by their ambition to succeed in their goals to ultimately change America, the war was sparked by many indifferences. Although the most important and know problem between the North and the South was slavery, many other problems were taken into consideration. Taxes, tariffs and internal improvements were just some of the issues that could not have been resolved by words. This problem within our country leads us to think, is this country a solid, unified country or a country made up of many individual sections of the country?
America in twoThis cartoon represent The United States of America in the midst of the Civil War. America was split in half at this time into the Union (the North) and the Confederacy (the South). The reason for this separation was that the South, with the election of Abraham Lincoln, thought that the North would soon "run" the country. This caused the South to leave, or secede from The United States. The reason for this nearly 4 year battle was all because the South had different beliefs and opinions than the North.
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Racism In americaRacism is one of the greater problems in America, but is slowly being resolved. Knowing about the civil war, it can be concluded that Southern States tend to be more racist than the Northern States. After all, one of the main reasons Southern America decided to secede was because they wished to keep slavery as the north fought for racial equality. But even after the Civil War 150 years ago, "there's social-science evidence that Southern States do have bigger racism problems than states outside the South." Yes there are many racist people in the north, but the majority of racist people are located in the southern states. So the big question is: Why does geography have to do with racism? It's not actually the geography that causes the South to be more racist, it's the beliefs that have been held for many, many years. The beliefs are held onto and the states grow up with them.
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