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4. Prior to the Civil War, it was the North that was attempting to impose its values on the South

Reply to nadinbrzezinski (Original post)

Mon Aug 13, 2012, 12:54 PM

Aug 2012

Slavery had been legal, if not very common, in many of the northern states in the early 1800s.

The attitudes towards slavery changed first in the northern states because of the abolitionist movement. Then the northern states attempted to prevent the establishment of slavery in the new states in the west, even when those states were populated by settlers from the south.

So the imposition of values came from the north. The values in the south had not changed much at all.

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A The Civil War... and modern day parallels [View all] nadinbrzezinski Aug 2012 OP

What makes '12 different than '08? nc4bo Aug 2012 #1

What led to Fort Sumter? nadinbrzezinski Aug 2012 #2

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Prior to the Civil War, it was the North that was attempting to impose its values on the South FarCenter Aug 2012 #4

The South was attempting to expand slavery nadinbrzezinski Aug 2012 #5

Right on point and factually correct. SlimJimmy Aug 2012 #7

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