Dominant themes

    Out of every thing we have learned from the 1600s to the 1800s the most important themes that we is slavery and the civil war. Slavery made a huge impact on America's economy but also tore out country apart. It was also one of the most brutal events that has ever happened on American soil. Americans treated slaves like property, beat them, and mistreated them. This caused major disagreement in the America which lead to the Missouri compromise that said for every slave state, there would be a free state. Slavery was the Souths main source of income so it was major part of economy because the south was mostly agriculture. The north had much less slaves and wasn't a major source of income for them because they mostly had industry. This caused the south to strongly disagree with the abolishment of slavery and eventually succeed from the North and start the civil war. Slavery was a major reason for the civil war starting. The north was at an advantage in the war because they had more industry, this more weapons and they had many more soldiers than the south did. The civil war was won by the north and caused slavery to end. This great for the slaves but because all they ever knew and ever did work as a slave, so most didn't know what to do and some even stayed and worked for their former owner.