If the South had won the Civil War, what would the 2 Americas be like?
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The war would have ended with a long and bloody stalemate, meaning that both countries would have continued from there with huge and crippling defense budgets with an enormous fortified border. South would have almost definitely become a protectorate of England because their economy was based very heavily on agriculture for export only. The north would not have had the excess investment capital for railroads across the west and intense industrialization. \n\nIt would be a very bad history for both sides.
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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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reconstruction in the south
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England, France and Spain colonize N. America.  England's colonies do the best, and they rebel and form their own country (USA) and slowly take over the rest of the country.  During this time, the south decides they don't like the national govt. and rebel.  The south loses and the country is unified.  WWI and WWII, now the US is a superpower.  The USSR collapses and the US is the most powerful nation in the world.  Terrorists fly planes into Trade Towers/Pentagon and then we invade Afghanistan and Iraq.  To be cont...\n\nEach state gets the number of electors equal to the number of senators and represenatives combined.  All electors vote for whoever the popular vote of the state chose.  Whichever candidate gets the majority of the electoral votes, wins.\n\nThere are three branches.  The executive (prez.), legislative (congress with two houses), and judicial (courts).  They each have power over the others in some way (balance of power) so that neither can control the nation by itself.
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The US/Mexico war was going to happen anyway.  There was room for only one major continental power.  The US also was sure of its Manifest Destiny Doctrine and that meant that the two nations had to duke it out.  We won and took the legitimate spoils of war in the eyes of the people of that era.  There was even some debate about annexing ALL of Mexico but it was not viable at that time.
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Presidential Reconstruction\n\na. the South was the main battleground of the Civil War\n\n  I.The War’s Aftermath\n\na. war had destroyed property, cities, men, morale, etc.\naa. 2/3 of southern shipping and 9,000 miles of railroad destroyed\nab. 1 out of every 5 white men in the South had been killed\nb. farmers and other poor whites returned home to find their farms in ruins, their livestock dead, no jobs available, and no way to make a living\nc. plantation owners lost slave labor worth about $3 billion\nca. many lost their plantations and all of their money\nd. newly freed slaves had to provide for their needs for the first time in their lives\nda. this was difficult in the South’s wrecked economy and climate of racial discrimination\ne. Federal government’s effort to repair the south and restore southern states to the Union was known as Reconstruction\nf. two issues lay at the heart of Reconstruction:\n1. the future of political & economic power for freed slaves\n2. the future of North-South political and economic relations\n\n  II.Two Reconstruction Plans\n\nLincoln’s Plan\na. Prodigal Son Plan/Ten Percent Plan\naa. tone of forgiveness\n1. offered a pardon to any Confederate who would take an oath of allegiance to the Union & accept federal policy on slavery\n2. denied pardons to Confederates who had killed black war prisoners\n3. allowed each state to hold a constitutional convention only after 10% of the voters who voted in 1860 had sworn allegiance to the Union\n4. states could then hold elections and resume full participation in the Union\nb. Radical Republicans in Congress saw Lincoln’s plan as a threat to their authority\nba. wanted to punish the south\nbb. offered their own plan called the Wade-Davis Bill\nbc. required southern states to repudiate Confederate debt\nbd. required ex-Confederates to take an oath of loyalty\nJohnson’s Plan\na. Andrew Johnson somewhat followed Lincoln’s plan\n1. pardoned southerners who swore allegiance to the Union\n2. allowed each state to hold a constitutional convention\n3. states were required to void secession, abolish slavery, and ratify the 13th Amendment\n4. states could then hold elections and resume full participation in the Union\nb. Johnson’s plan made it possible for former high ranking Confederate officials to hold positions of power in reconstructed southern governments\n\nIII.The Taste of Freedom\n\na. to help the black southerners, Congress created the Freedmen’s Bureau\nb. gave out clothing, medical supplies, and meals to black and white war refugees\nc. built schools and helped provide education for freedmen\n\n\nChapter 13 Section 2 [p.p. 385-390]  Congressional Reconstruction\n\n  I.Black Codes\n\na. southern legislatures passed laws restricting the rights of blacks\nb. North saw black codes as evidence the South sought to keep freedmen in a legally inferior and economically dependent status\n\n II.Turning Point: Fourteenth Amendment\n\na. Radical Republicans in Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 outlawing black codes and giving black men “full and equal benefit of all laws”\naa. Pres. Johnson saw the Civil Rights Act of 1866 as an instrument to provoke racial disharmony\nab. Johnson vetoed it\nb. Radical Republicans began to take over Reconstruction\nc. June 1866, Congress passed 14th Amendment\nca. gave citizenship to blacks\n\nIII.Radical Reconstruction\n\na. moderate and radical Republicans began to form an alliance against Johnson after his vetoes of the Civil Rights Act and the Freedmen’s Bureau bill\nb. Radical Republicans like Charles Sumner believed the Confed. states had ceased to exist as states and must be treated as conquered territory\nc. Congress passed Reconstruction Act of 1867\nca. divided the South into 5 districts\ncb. placed the South under military rule\ncc. ordered southern states to create new constitutions\ncd. gave blacks in the South the right to vote (universal manhood suffrage)\nce. temporarily prohibi
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It's kind of like that now. We've got those dang hillbillies holed up in the oval office. The South might as well have won.
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which civil war?  north or south of what?
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Some historians have said that the Southern states missed their best chance to win their independence by not seceding in 1850, when the North was less prepared to deal with a crisis of that magnitude.  By waiting until 1861 to try to leave the Union, the Southern states gave the North too much time to grow stronger, and their defeat was almost inevitable.
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As President Grant said in his memoirs, the South stopped working for compromise when they could no longer command political dominance of the country. Back in the early 1980's, the Commerce Department put out a series of books on the economic history of the United States, which brought up many aspects of early US history that are now forgotten.\n\nAfter the revolution, when the country was a bankrupted swath of states along the Atlantic Ocean, there seemed no way the country could survive economically. Then, the industrialization of the American Northeast was financed in large part by hard currency achieved through the export of cotton and tobacco. These were the only resources the US had in large quantities that had a monopoly throughout the world, and this was of course produced exclusively in the South. The grains produced in the Northeast and later in the Midwest were largely barred from European markets because of the British Corn Laws and other agricultural protective measures across the world.\n\nYou must remember, this was before the advent of sectionalism, and many across the country gave their political loyalty to the Whig Party, which represented Business both large and small. As a result, the South would reap huge profits on cotton (which thus became an industry only for those rich and powerful enough to hold large amounts of land and large numbers of slaves) and then invest those profits in the North to build industry. This also gave the South a certain amount of extra influence in how things were done across the country.\n\nAs the North began to also grow rich because of its expanding industrial base, leaders in the North began to also throw their political and economic weight around. In the 1830's, Northern and Midwestern sections brought about a very protective tariff against foreign manufactured goods and European luxuries (hence the name Sectionalism).\n\nAs we have seen all throughout our history, when a domestic industry is protected by increasing the price of foreign competition, rather than using the protection to increase their market share and long term health, American business will simply increase their prices to maximize their short term profits. This was the case here as well. The leaders in the North, because they needed semi-skilled labor which is not condusive to slavery, started to fund the political movement to abolish slavery which, when gold was discovered in California and people had to travel through Missouri and actually see the way slaves were treated, became an uncontrollably emotional issue. The South found themselves now having to pay higher prices for goods they could not produce themselves, even though they had made those goods possible, and found their peculiar institution which was the basis of their own wealth attacked as being immoral.\n\nThe two sections of the country had found themselves growing farther apart, and the differences were becoming too stark for the Southern leaders to deal with. While they defended African slavery as moral and humanitarian, they lived in mortal fear of becoming slaves themselves. The Whig Party began to unravel, with those in the North going to the Republicans and the South going to the Democrats. With the very idea of slavery being called into question, the South demanded a concession in the Compromise of 1850 that they felt would force the whole country to recognize the institution of slavery, the Fugitive Slave Act. This completely backfired on the South, because now to the people in the North, slavery was no longer just some bad thing that was happening far far away that you could pretend was someone else's problem (like Darfur today). The new law now required Northern communities to arrest and hold captive black people in their local jails with their local police for no other reason than because someone in the South said the black person was a runaway slave (there was no hearing, and no evidence allowed other than the statement of
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Technically he died before the hostilities were over, however it has long been considered that when the Confederate Army of Virginia under General Robert E. Lee surrenderred to U.S. Grant on April 9, 1865 that the war was over.  The final Confederate Army surrenderred in late May in the Deep South.  However in April we had siezed the Southern Capital At Richmond, Va. and sent the government running so the war was really considered over with that occurance, Hostilities ended about 6 weeks later.\n\nWhen you study the Civil War you can see that the Northern Forces had many setbacks during the first few years of the war and it looked as if the South were going to win the war.  However with Lincoln's resolve to reunite the Union he kept changing Generals until he found one that was up to the task.  The first major setback for the South was at Gettysburg, Pa. when the South's invasion of the North was turned back and Lee's Army retreated back too Virgina suffering many losses along the way.  With General Grant being placed in charge of the Union Army the tide of the war turned to favor the Union Forces.\n\nThe Civil War was fought over States Rights, each state was sovereign from each other and could pass their own laws and the Southern States wanted that right to be placed before the Federal Governments Rights.  The Southern States wanted strong state government and the North wanted a strong Federal Government.  140 years later and this sometimes is still questioned by people all over the country as to how much right's a state does indeed have.  The freeing of the Slaves became a part of it when in 1862 to obtain political advantage over the South Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation which went into effect January 1, 1863.  This was done to keep European Nations from recognizing the South as a free and Independent country.  Slavery by the 1860's had been all but eliminated by the rest of the world and from a humun right's standpoint this made it difficult for any other Nation to give aid to the South by recognizing them as free and Independent of the Northern States.  Only one country had Slavery longer the the U.S. and that was Brazil and they also did away with it in the 1860's.
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Slavery had little to do with the Civil War. The prime issue was balance of power between Federal and State. Slavery happened to be the issue that fell along this divide. Could also throw in north-south economic disparacy.
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I think he had a goat he liked to have sex with. He had dogs, cats, some abolished slaves, and parakeets.  He had a number of farm animals when he lived in the country.\n\nMany Southern states made it clear that if Lincoln was elected, they would secede (leave the Union). The South was against Lincoln because he opposed slavery. South Carolina was the first to secede in December 1860. Six other Southern states followed: Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. After Lincoln's inauguration, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina also left the Union. These states became known as the Confederacy. The secession of the Southern states led to the first shots of the Civil War when the Confederates seized Fort Sumter in South Carolina in April 1861. \n\nLincoln faced the greatest national crisis of any U.S. President. He hated war and the death and destruction it would bring. However, he accepted war as the only means of saving the Union. He warned the South in his Inaugural Address:\n\n"In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it." (Abraham Lincoln Web Site) \n\nAs the nation neared the third year of the bloody Civil War, President Lincoln issued the historic Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." \n\nThis proclamation actually freed few people. It did not apply to slaves in the Border States of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware; nor did it affect slaves in southern areas already under Union control. Naturally, the states that had seceded did not act on Lincoln's orders. But the proclamation showed Americans — and the world — that the war was being fought to end slavery. \n\nAlthough the Emancipation Proclamation did not immediately free a single slave, it changed the way black men were accepted during the war. Black men could join the Union Army and Navy. The liberated could become the liberators. By the end of the war, nearly 200,000 black soldiers and sailors fought for the Union and freedom. \n\nOn November 19, 1863, President Lincoln gave his famous Gettysburg Address in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The speech dedicated the battlefield to the soldiers who had died there. The battle site became a military cemetery. Lincoln stated in his moving speech: "...we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." (The National Archives.)\n\nBush needs to learn from this guy although he already has goat. He should not give part of America to the arabs.
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The Reconstruction era scarred the South (the results can still be seen today). It was a glaring example of why a one party system does not work, and how forcing reparation or reparation type laws on the losing side of a war will spark dissension and possibly future violence.\n\nBecause they completely lost their pride and their power, certain elements in the South radicalized. Their mistreatment of minorities (namely blacks) caused widespread debate, hatred, and racism.
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during the civil war many of the stated split into two.  Half of the state joined the Union, and the other half the Confederacy.
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Civil war made us a country instead of a bunch of states, the Spanish American war established our control of the America's and the First World War turned the US into the center of world instead of Europe.
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Well, one difference is that the U.S. Civil war began over the issue of State's rights.  The federal government wanted more control over what went on in the states and the southern states believed that the Federal government should have limited power (as outlined in the U.S. Constitution).  Although it is often thought of as a war over slavery, the real issue was whether or not the Feds could control the states.\n\nThe "civil war"  (not really offcially declared at this point) in Iraq has to do with groups of people who flat out don't like each other and don't want to live with each other.