Slavery

Slavery

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Slavery was only in the south. If you wasn't white and you lived in the south there were no question asked, you were a slave. Looking back in history it's funny that we end up in the south, the south was basically a slave place. Cotton made slaves important, cotton also spread west and that increased slavery even more.Slave was treated worst than an open wound before there was medication. =====

The North was anti- slavery while the South was pro-slavery during and before the war.The North was more densely populated than the rural South.The North had more resources in terms of money, men and supplies than the South.In terms of political parties, the North was predominantly Republican while the South was Democrat.

The reason for the differences is because the south is were the slaves and the north want them free.

The issue was that the slave was running north getting away. 

**15th Amendment.** This amendment, ratified in 1870, said that no citizen's vote could be taken away because of his race or color or because he was once a slave.

**19th Amendment.** After this amendment was ratified in 1920, all women in the U.S. were allowed to vote.

**22nd Amendment.** This amendment limits a president to two terms in office. George Washington started the presidential tradition of serving for two four-year terms.

**2****6th Amendment**. This amendment was passed in 1971, and it gave people 18 to 20 years old the right to vote. The national voting age had been 21.

John brown: attempt in 1859 to start a liberation movement among enslaved African Americans in Harpers Ferry, Virginia electrified the nation. He was tried for treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia, the murder of five men and inciting a slave insurrection. He was found guilty on all counts and was hanged.He led small groups of volunteers during the Bleeding Kansas crisis.