The "good guys" won and liberated slaves but then slaughtered countless Indians out west. Union hero General Philip Sheridan was noted as saying "The only good Indian is a dead Indian". The "good guys" raped and pillaged half of Georgia and their actions were largely responsible for the animosity of Southerners in general and Georgians in particular toward "Yankees" for decades after that. The North destroyed the Southern economy but did not replace it with anything better, letting it revert to a system of semi-slavery once they had picked up choice aspects of the Southern economy during the charade of "Reconstruction", which was mainly carried out under the most corrupt administration that had existed up to that time, and which ended only after Northern Republicans decided that they would rather steal a presidential election than continue the charade.
In the meantime, the North had no problems with child labor, both in the North and South, and working conditions in the North even for adults were often atrocious, especially in workplaces such as Pennsylvania steel mills where workers often died of complications arising from the horrid working conditions. But the steel mill owners didn't care because there was always someone available who could replace a sick or dead mill worker.
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