Summary of Bill O'Neill & Dwayne Walker's The American Civil War Trivia Book

By IRB Media

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#1 The American South was facing a problem during the nineteenth century. The rich were realizing that the money wasn’t in farming, but in factories and manufacturing goods. The plantation owners were in danger of being judged by their Northern counterparts.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 16, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822534681

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Insights from Chapter 1

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The American South was facing a problem during the nineteenth century. The rich were realizing that the money wasn’t in farming, but in factories and manufacturing goods. The plantation owners were in danger of being judged by their Northern counterparts.

Insights from Chapter 2

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There has always been tension between the southern states and the northern states. The southern states were great farmland, and people could run large mega-farms or plantations there. The northern states were more successful in industrial projects.

Insights from Chapter 3

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The South needed a lot of workers, so it was cheaper to buy them than to pay them. Slavery made sense in this economy.

Insights from Chapter 4

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Only a third of people in the South owned slaves, and of that number, a lot of them owned just a couple, and they were domestic rather than plantation slaves. The majority of slaves were owned by a small group of extremely rich families known as the planter