USA trade intrests in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic were severely affected, and any effort to secure those intrests meant war. In addition, after the war, the world became polarised and the Soviets who were communists were aggressively expanding around the globe, which implied that American system of free trade and democracy was being threatened.
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Attitudes about the role of women in the workplace needed to change. In order to make up for the men who have went to war.
Lincoln goals for civil war changed during the war, at the beginning the war was about preserving the union, but it later changed to ending slavery. This was clear during the Gettysburg Address, in this speech he talked about the principles of human equality and need to end slavery.
After slavery ended African Americans still had to face many problems, such as Black Codes that were laws that restricted legal rights to blacks, like the right to marry, own property and others.
Because of this, many African Americans used sharecropping that was a system of work that exchanged labor in return for housing, land and other commodities. Carpetbagger was a name that people called people who went south with cloth bags with goods from the north.
