First Book Of Frederick Douglass Pros And Cons

Fredrick Douglas was a man born into slavery from a slave and a white man which led me to believe that the white m an was his mother master. Douglas was born in Maryland in 1818 which isn’t really an exact date who did a lot of manual labor. Frederick Douglas was an abolitionist which means he was obviously anti-slavery and joined the anti-slavery society. Douglas became famous by giving thousands of lectures on women’s rights and slavery. Fredrick Douglas was very successful because he was a writer and a publisher which was called The North Star. The only reason he became successful in writing books is because the Sophia, the wife of Hugh treated Douglas with respect and taught him to read and write. After the wife was caught teaching him,

American settlers wanted to expand from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean for more opportunities. The settlers decided to make an expansion far west because they believed that there would gain more money, they believed in Manifest destiny because they felt that it was there tight to expand if they wanted to. Some reasons for the settlers to move West were mining opportunities, adventures, expanding railroads for easier access for trade and transportation, and a great deal of land for cheap. Also,” During hard seasons, when crops failed or when farm prices fell, many headed for a new beginning in the West” (Walter Havighurst, First Book Of Pioneers). There are many pros and cons with the expansion, for example some pros are… created new jobs, it was discovered that they could get medicine from plants, they had new ways of trading goods through mining and new transportation, and the people of the South wanted to move slavery to the North but the people of the North did not want slavery to become legalized. Some cons were that native Americans were forced to live on reservations and many of them died from diseases which is also known as the trail of tears, deforestation because of the mining and transportation, travelers that wanted to move west had to be careful cause it was considered dangerous. Manifest destiny was a belief that the United Sates should own territories for Pacific to Atlantic. Due to the Manifest Destiny, people believed that they were destined to

The Civil war was a war that was fought with the North and the South from 1861 throughout 1865. This war killed about 618,000 lives. Some reasons for the civil war were economic issues because the North was all about business and the South was all about farming, another reason was because of slavery because the people of the North banned slavery and the people of the South depend on it for produce. Also, because Abraham Lincoln was president at the time of the civil war era, Lincoln did not want to identify the South as being independent which started the war in 1861. Lincoln was all for the emancipation proclamation and freed the slaves. In the end the war ended with the North winning because the South basically went bankrupt and almost all men died. The reconstruction era after the civil war is basically rebuilding and brings back together the south because it was left in ruins, With the reconstruction came many rules such as leaders in the south were not allowed to public office, Northern soldiers supervised the south instead if the soldier of the south, Also many Northerners moved to the South during the reconstruction era which was known as carpetbaggers and they took advantage which upset many southerners. Due to the reconstruction, there were no laws, all banks were ruined, and rival money was basically worthless. Towards the end of the war, the Southerners’ passed “Black Codes” which is basically a law that wanted to limit the freedom for the African Americans.