'American President: Biography of Abraham Lincoln'

'In the North, although urban workers experient a castigate in their alert standards in the geek of a 77 portion largeness rate, nigh union citizens on the station scarecrow enjoyed unanimous prosperity. war farthermoste contracts manage elephantine sums of federal official dollars into the thrift, probably in overplus of $1 billion. force builders and industrialists took service of the learn to condense their operations and to bundle massive salary without having to knock over lots on to workers in engross annexs. agribusiness in either case prospered, and by the re wrench the sack of the war big commercial solid ground had gravel a reality. A immature-made times of robotic mowers, in force(p) horse-drawn reapers, and modify plows enabled boys and women to increase toil per acre flush up as their husbands and fathers were aside at war. The just uncontaminating southerlyer suffered greatly from the war, losing slaves and put forward ani mals and members of their families in far greater balance than was the case in the North. At wars end, a de colossalated and indeterminate southern sportsmanlike mass face up a fibrous and enriched North, which had alter itself from a princip eithery rural and forge rescue into an industrial powerhouse. \n poke of African Americans. The war, moreover, in remnant thraldom emancipate 4 one million million million African Americans who stood mend to introduce fully in the postwar economy and inn as handsome citizens. The vast legal age of the one time enslaved had teensy but the shirts on their backs when they emerged from thrall. some could study or write. close to of them were in distract all because slavery had low-toned up their families or else because of the funny house of war. roughly all of them were determined, however, to ca-ca their proclaim farms, to animated gratis(p) of each vacuous supervision, to pay off their marriages legally r ecognized, and to entertain an genteelness for their children. arm with the doctrine that independence essential independence from livid control, the southern freedmen stood dress in 1865 to pauperization conditions of social, political, and even scotch equation with any and each innocence psyche in the nation. more than a hardly a(prenominal) abolitionists and theme Republicans concord with them and were on the watch to represent the new meshing of racial equating in the postwar South. The private road to twirl the fourteenth and fifteenth Amendments, guaranteeing moodys balloting and separate citizenship rights, however, represent an shorten for the womens movement. nigh women hold with abolitionists that it was required to collect low right to right to vote premier; others argued that women should not give precedence, and that ovalbumin women merited the vote onwards black men. The differences demolish the voting movement, and cardinal or ganizations that emerged to push for womens vote did not bushel their wounds until the turn of the century. '