North/South History

During the first half of the 19th Century, zealous firebrands of North and South broadcast abuse on economics, politics, and morality of the other until no reasoning between them could be heard. History books say the war began April 12, 1861, when forces under Confederate General Pierre Beauregard fired on Ft. Sumter in Charleston, SC. In reality, the war between the beliefs of the North and the South began many years prior to this date. Ft. Sumter was the opening of Pandora=s box (Levine, Foner, 12).

At the beginning of the United States in 1789, the South was an important part of the country, which was already different from the mid-Atlantic states and New England due to the differences in colonial immigration patterns and the economic domination of the region by the plantation system of agriculture. Slavery existed in both North and South before the Revolutionary War. Freedom from slavery probably began in 1775, when Rhode Island gave freedom to any child born of a slave mother. In 1787, the Northwest Ordinance barred

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ates and 15 slave states. California wanted to enter the Union as a free state, which would destroy that balance. After long and bitter debates, the Compromise of 1850 emerged and California entered the Union as a free state; the South got a tougher fugitiveslave law in return. New Mexico and Utah gained territorial status with the right to decide the question of slavery on their soil, whereas another law forbade the slave trade in the District of Columbia. The conflict of principles remained. For the South, it was not that entities were to have slavery, but that they had the "right" to have slavery. Slaves were considered property, and the South believed that the Federal government should not by law, dictate what property one can or cannot own (Levine, Foner, 132). The South was continuously on the defensive. In 1854, Congress passed the KansasNebraska Act that wiped out the old Missouri Compromise line and opened more of the West to slavery. The new Republican Party dedicated itself to repeal this law and to place limits on the spread of slavery. In 1857, Abolitionists of the North and South were enraged when the United States Supreme Court gave their decision in the case of Dred Scott. Dred Scott, a Negro in Missouri, sued
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