What was the US like in the 1870's?
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Actually, there WAS a lot of industry.  The civil war had ended, slaves were emancipated (but still very poor and discriminated against).  Most states in the West weren't states yet, just territories with no proper government.  Things were pretty busy in large cities and in Industrial New England and New York and Pennsylvania, but if there wasn't a railroad nearby, you had to take a horse or boat or just walk, so people didn't move very far away if they could help it.  I don't think there were labor usions in those times, so work conditions were pretty bad, and since medical science was pretty scarce compared to today, people died fairly young of diseases like smallpox, typhoid, cholera, etc.
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The German states united after they fought together in the 1870/71 Franco Prussian war vs France....
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It was the traditional family structures that made the United State of America.\n\nFor over thousand of years the family structure had work.  For only 60+ years the liberal family structure had been implemented in the United State and we have a crisis!  Even our US President is a drunk!
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Without a dought back 100 years ago. They had more hardships but they had more respect for everything back then. We have it good now but maybe its too good. We tend to take everything forgranted. Back then was just a simpler time.
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I do not think an independent Southern Republic (ie: Confederate States of America) would be easy going or even terribly stable. I think it would be a continuing problem to the peace and prosperity of the Western Hemisphere.\n\nThe antebellum leaders of the American South were extremely expansionist, looking to add at least Cuba and Nicauragua as new slave states. The fast-profit method of cotton cultivation in the south was so wasteful and inefficient that the ariable land available would have diminished very quickly with the requirement for even more of Latin America to be seized. Because of the growing worldwide trend against Negro slavery, the traditional supply sources would have been unavailable. This would have inevitably required the extension of slavery to the indiginous Indian populations.\n\nThe Southern economy, again because of the quick-profit mentality, was dependent on outside sources for capital and for manufacturing. As a one-product economy, the CSA would have been the victim of the fluctuations of the foreign market for cotton. The federal blockade during the Civil War forced Europe to develop other sources of cotton (Egypt and South America) and this would have made those fluctuations even more traumatic. Transportation and Energy production in the South would have continued to lag with obsolete technology, again because of the quick profit mentality - and small government thinking. Public investment would have continued to be discouraged.\n\nEmancipation would never have happened, and the flight of runaway slaves to the USA would have increased. As a separate and unfriendly nation, the CSA would have very little influence on US policy. The USA would never condone the return of runaways to slavery and probable torture (although George W was born in Connecticut). This would have led to the requirement of a long and fortified border between the two countries, a further drag on both country's economies.\n\nThere is a definite possibility that the two countries would have fought on different sides in WWI (South with England, North with Germany). Imagine trench warfare along the Tennessee River. Regardless of outcome, South would probably have become a partial protectorate of England, certainly would depend on the Royal Navy for protection.\n\nNo, this would have been a bad thing.
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Remember your 7th grade history....people were moving beyond the fall line and into Kentucky earlier than the 1840s. The land beyond the Miss. R. was given with the Homestead Act - 1862. See the following\n\nhttp://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/reproducibles/profbooks/histmap.pdf#search='frontier%201800%20map'\nhttp://home.hiwaay.net/~givensod/giv40ky.htm
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how do you compare the lifestyle of today to your time period? \nwhat is your view on todays goverment compared to your time period?\ngas and economy?\nrace?\nwar?\nemployment?\nworld affairs?
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Sounds like homework... \nProbably should do some of you own thinking here... but here are a few ideas to get started with...\n(a) What sort of state were the former Confiderate states in? Had they used their manpower and economic resources to better economies or to fight the war?  What was their infrastructure like? Were there roads, towns, etc. left after Sherman's March to the Sea?  \n(b) What was the South's economic system like? With slaves freed, how was the economy (which required lots of manual labor on large plantations) going to function?  How were the white and black citizens in the south going to live together / work together after one class of people were literally property?\n\n(2) You might find starting information on Johnson's reconstruction plans here:\n(This is wikipedia, so you need better sources, but it's a start)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction
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The U.S. was one, a newly discovered continent.  It was a grand adventure.  Also, the newly formed government was a grand experiment.  Never before had a government been formed on the theory of democracy in such a large scale.  It afforded freedoms almost unheard of around the world.  Freedoms like, no matter what economic status you came from, you could make yourself better in America.   And, no matter what status you were born to, whether a prince or a pauper, you could succeed in America.  The struggles over racism weren't only over blacks, but included Irish, and Italians, and Asians.  Even with these racial struggles the opportunities afforded every individual were far better than most folks could find in their home countries.
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our country was as divided as it is today about major issues and at the time geography had alot to do with because of the economy (farming without slaves etc..)  Where as today even in the red/ blue states there we are still to evenly spread out to divide geographically
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_(1988-present)\n\ntry to find a answer in that site ..
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Manifest Destiny  \nIn the early 1840s, the American people were no more stirred by the quarrels of ... To broaden their appeal, the Republicans chose Abraham Lincoln as their ...www.emayzine.com/lectures/man.htm
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The Iron Curtain as we knew it is gone.\n\nAnd yes, there still are large differences between North and South in the USA.
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The American Revolution was long, slow and hard, for both\nsides.  But now we have freedoms, that were not imagined\n4 or 5 hundred years ago.  50 or 100 years from now the\nIraqis will look back on this period with great gratitude.  And so\nwill the rest of the world.\nI Corinthians 13;8a, Love never fails!!!
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This was a period in which the former States of the Confederacy were impelled and coerced through a societal transformation.  During this period 10 to 15 percent of the white voters were disfranchised as the local Republican Party united illiterate blacks, “scalawags,” and northern “Carpetbaggers” into an unscrupulous political triumvirate that indulged in an orgy of extravagance, corruption, and debauchery.  (from “Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men,” by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel).  \n\nDuring this same period, the Union military occupation forces made elected members of some State legislatures removed from office because they would not support ratification of the 14th Amendment.  They then replaced these legislatures with hand picked individuals who would vote the way they wanted.  While this is clearly extra-Constitutional, in the 1869 case of Texas v. White these acts of the Union were justified as legitimate “by right of conquest.”  \n\nThese acts of reconstruction were far outside the intent for Reconstruction of President Lincoln (prior to his assassination) further destroying the culture of these States and building resentment which would last for generations into the future.  For those interested they could find interesting such books as:\n\n“The Tragic Era: The Revolution after Lincoln” by Claude G. Bowers;\n“History of the United States From the Compromise of 1850 to the Restoration of Home Rule in the South in 1877”, by James Ford Rhodes;\nAlso by William Archibald Dunning, “Reconstruction: Political and Economic, 1865 – 1877; and,\nEssays on the Civil War and Reconstruction,” 2nd edition.
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What time period in American History are you dealing with, how old are you and I might be able to answer.
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go on this link:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930