During the war, it was the rebels
The British news oscillated the American public opinion(s) in favor of the Allies. They also had like cultural 'bonds' too.
Slavery ended when President Abraham Lincoln delivered his iconic Emancipation Proclamation. This would eventually free black people so they could become ordinary citizens and NOT slaves. So basically, slavery was ended all thanks to good ol' Lincoln :)
Socialism - means of production owned by the people and the government for the welfare of society
Socialism is actually a middle term between the free market and the communism. The State has a lot of power and is supposed to use it to redistribute the wealth among the people.
Capitalism - small percentage of private individuals have ownership over means of production
It generally is like that in our world, but it doesn't necessarily need to be true. Capitalism is a system that is all about free trade and anyone can produce and sell their services or products. Generally, there is always someone who gets big enough to employ thousands of people, but it isn't necessarily a bad thing. Even though many of the means of production might end up owned by few people, generally speaking, capitalism made the world richer and more technologically evolved.
Utopianism - Ideal society in which everyone is treated fairly and taken care of
The word Utopia was first used by Sir Thomas More in his book Utopia (1516). By definition, a utopia would be "an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.
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The Black Codes, sometimes called Black Laws, were laws governing the conduct of African Americans (free blacks). The best known of them were passed in 1865 and 1866 by Southern states, after the American Civil War, in order to restrict African Americans' freedom, and to compel them to work for low wages. However, Black Codes existed before the Civil War, and many Northern states had them. In 1832, "in most of the United States, there is a distinction in respect to political privileges, between free white persons and free coloured persons of African blood; and in no part of the country do the latter, in point of fact, participate equally with the whites, in the exercise of civil and political rights."
