COLONIZATION TO CIVIL WAR

America after Colonization Till the Civil War



America after Colonization Till the Civil War

By the middle of the XIX century slavery in the American South became increasingly brake on economic and social development. In the north, developed rapidly capitalism, the industrial revolution came at a critical stage, covering all major sectors of industrial production. U.S. along with Britain, France and Germany has become part of the four advanced industrial countries in the world. At the same time south of the country remained extremely backward area dominated slavery here (Sam, 2011). By this time, it changed alignment of class forces in the country. If the old commercial bourgeoisie, bankers, cotton manufacturers were economically linked with the South, the new industrial bourgeoisie constantly faced with the planters on customs tariffs, the "internal improvement" - financing the construction of railways, canals, harbors, etc.

In 50 years of increased antagonism between slave-owning planters and farmers. The two streams - farm and slave - are now faced with the colonization of the "free" land of the West. Democratic resolutions of the issue of land in the West and the destruction of plantation estates in the South have been impossible without the abolition of slavery. Determined opponents of slavery were the American workers. They also sought a democratic solution to the question of land, which stood in the way of slavery.

Decade preceding the Civil War was a time of rapidly growing revolutionary crisis. Exacerbate the issue of slavery contributed to political factors. For several decades, slaveholders controlled the central element of political power in the country: the presidency, Congress and the Supreme Court. First of all, they began to lose influence in Congress (Sam, 2011). Rapid population growth of the northern states (the flow of European immigration was directed here) led to a predominance of northerners in the House of Representatives. Not wanting to avoid the predominance of the northern states and in the Senate, the planters sought to maintain an equal number of free and slave states.

Even more important was the law to provide people of the Territories of New Mexico and Utah law to decide the question of slavery (Fearon, 2004). Douglas and adopted in 1854 a bill "Kansas-Nebraska," testified about it openly. The vast territories lying north of the line Missouri compromise, the question of slavery was declared a matter of "sovereignty settlers. Externally, the law appeared democratic but in ...