Period 5: Comparison (jan 1, 1844 – jan 1, 1877)

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Civil war on American Values
- Life, Liberty and Property
- Civil war gave values to more of the country, including African Americans
- prioritized human rights of more people, and paved way for other minorities to fight for their rights.

Federal government
- substantial increase
- highly opposed and remain through history as modern day republicanism

W.E. DuBois
- believed Civil war had little significance in overall culture shift
- people still racist after war
- While slaves free, they were still segregated in most of the country

Politics and Values
- drastically changed the citizenship process
- gave citizenship rights to all men born within the country

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