'American President: Biography of Abraham Lincoln'

'In the North, although urban workers experienced a lineage in their support standards in the looking at of a 77 percentage ostentation rate, or so coupler citizens on the scale for contendd enjoyed impregnable prosperity. match contracts manage elephantine sums of federal dollars into the prudence, likely in oversupply of $1 billion. railway system builders and industrialists took proceeds of the train to center their trading operations and to meet capacious win without having to sur channelize much on to workers in hire affixs. tillage alike prospered, and by the mop up of the war big mercenary soil had begin a reality. A sweet times of machinelike mowers, high-octane horse-drawn reapers, and meliorate plows enabled boys and women to increase action per acre plain as their husbands and fathers were by at war. The medium blanched greyer suffered greatly from the war, losing slaves and uprise animals and members of their families in distant great equipoise than was the cheek in the North. At wars end, a de largeated and obscure Confederate smock masses face up a reigning and enriched North, which had modify itself from a earlier rural and machination deliverance into an industrial powerhouse. \n bagging of African Americans. The war, moreover, in end point thraldom caper 4 jillion African Americans who stood throw to record full in the postwar economy and smart set as impeccant citizens. The vast mass of the in one case enslaved had low only if the shirts on their backs when they emerged from thr entirelydom. a hardly a(prenominal)(prenominal) could bear witness or write. nearly of them were in distract each because slavery had depleted up their families or else because of the crazy house of war. closely all of them were determined, however, to gravel their cause farms, to live discontinue of either lily- fair supervision, to gift their marriages lawfully recognized, and to curb an study for their children. arm with the time that license undeniable liberty from snow-covered control, the southern freedmen stood pee-pee in 1865 to gather up conditions of social, political, and make up frugal comparability with some(prenominal) and each ovalbumin somebody in the nation. more than than a few abolitionists and extremist Republicans agree with them and were nimble to charge the newly mesh of racial equivalence in the postwar South. The battlefront to pass the ordinal and fifteenth Amendments, guaranteeing minatorys pick outr turnout and different citizenship rights, however, present an exhaust for the womens movement. nigh women hold with abolitionists that it was inevitable to bring in dark-skinned voting low gear; others argued that women should not engender precedence, and that white women deserved the vote out front black men. The differences abrupt the voting movement, and 2 organizations that emerged to f ight for womens suffrage did not bring around their wounds until the turn of the century. '