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American History
Leading up to the war
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History
Undergraduate 1
09/24/2008

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Republican Party
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Victorian Party; held the Victorian ideals at heart and that reflected in the policies and laws that they pursued
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Free Labor
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The idea that owning your own labor was essential
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Ostend Manifesto
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a secret plan to extend slavery into Central America and Mexico and if everything went well into South America as well; Northerners found out and were not happy
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Paternalism
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Male is the head of the household; slave owners have the power and others refer to him and he is suppose to look out for those that are below him
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Plantation novels
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Popular in both the north and the south; fiction; showed the paternal way of life in a positive way; showed the father figure in society in a positive way
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Uncle's Toms Cabin
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was about slavery and touched on all of the concerns about slavery that people in the north had
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George Fitzhugh, Cannibals All!!
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Rationalized the slavery in the south by saying that it was just as bad in the north; said that the starving wages in the north caused for a slavery that was worse than the slavery in the south
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Slavery in the territories
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The north did want there to be slavery but the south did
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Singer Sewing Company
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Demands for uniforms and clothing for the war caused the company to grow very large; the war made the north industrialize even more
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Total War
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Brought the war to the civilians
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