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| Perhaps the most important of the many causes and occurences leading up to the Civil War were the differences in views and way of life between the North and the South. Aside from partisan differences [The antislavery Republican party held power in the North, while most Southerners followed the Democratic party started by Jackson over 50 years before], there were major differences in way of life between the heavily commercial and industrial north, and the entirely agricultural South. As you can imagine, there was no great bond between these two completely different groups of people; the two regions probably felt like two different worlds. As this disunity continued to grow, the rift between the North and South grew as well, eventually ending up in secession, and the outbreak of the war. |
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| In the Sectional Differences section of the wing, I'd like to illustrate these differences with dioramas, paintings, and displays of Northern and Southern daily life, as well as the 1860 platform statements of both the Democratic and Republican parties. | |||||||||||||||
| An African-American family trying to survive the strong opposition between the north and the south in their daily life | |||||||||||||||