Key Points:
- Slavery was the issue dividing the nation
- The North had many advantages over the South because of their strength of industry
- Very deadly because of fighting tactics, technology and diseases
- Lincoln was determined to reunite the country throughout the entire war
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Key Points:
- Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment prohibited slavery in the US
- 2nd American Revolution, re-devoted Americans to the country
- Industrialization began to spread
- Strengthened national government & encouraged growth
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Key Points:
- Misplaced people needed a place to live and a sense of unity
- Sharecropping and tenant farming emerged throughout the old South
- South divided into districts and ratified 14th Amendment to be readmitted to the Union
- Rebuilding created more divisions in politics
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