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This 3 page paper considers the way in which the U.S. and the Confederacy defined themselves.
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paper discusses how the two halves of the country defined themselves. Discussion Brinkley doesnt actually come out and label each nation as "industrialized," "agricultural" and so on, so its up
to the reader to take what he says and organize that into a picture of the U.S. and the Confederacy. Doing so reveals that the North was far superior to
the South in industrialization; most of the major manufacturing plants were in the North which gave it a tremendous advantage when it came to manufacturing weapons of war. It also
had a well-developed transportation network, and a larger population. The South remained largely agricultural with few transportation hubs; in addition, much of the southern population was made up of slaves,
and no one was sure how they would react if war came. President Lincoln had delivered the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, freeing the slaves. A number of them joined the
Union Army, increasing the numerical superiority of the Union forces over those of the Confederacy. Perhaps the most basic definition of the two countries can be found in their attitude
toward central government. In the North, the idea of a strong central (i.e., federal) government was greatly favored. This was the government envisioned by the Founders, who felt that a
strong central authority was possibly the only way to cut down on factionalism, which they felt would be deadly to the new nation because factions could get together and overwhelm
the majority. In the South, however, the nation was a supporter of states rights; that is, they felt that most of the power of government should be left to the
individual states to determine. The federal government was seen as essentially too overbearing and liable to enact measures the states would not approve, so they sought to keep the central
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