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Gandhi returned to India in 1896 after spending 21 years in South Africa because he wanted to fight for the civil rights of Indians in both South Africa and India. He felt a strong sense of duty towards his country and its people, and believed that he could make a significant impact by leading the struggle for Indian independence.
pretty much smashed both of them for a few years
It was because of the South that the Civil War started, because they seceeded from the Union and started the first battle. So you can say the general was Robert E. Lee of the Confederacy.
States rights, slavery, western expansion, trade, property and taxation, cause many of the debates.
Thirty five years after the end of the US Civil War, the economics of the agricultural based South was in bad shape. By 1900, the main part of Southern economics, its farmlands, had only reached approximately 75% of the strength it had before the Civil War.
describes how slaves were regarded in the South in the pre-Civil War years?
an agriculture economy overly dependent on cotton and slave labor.
The leading differences between the North and the South leading towards the US Civil War was their respective economies. The North was rapidly expanding manufacturing while the South was primarily an agricultural economy. Also, the Southern economy was driven by slaves. For the most part the North had few slaves at all.
the union was winning the civil war
There were indeed stark social differences between the North and the South in the years leading up to the American Civil War. The South was an agrarian society that largely relied on slave labor and a plantation system to drive its economy. ... Unlike the South, the North had a larger urban...
Three major causes leading to the Civil War were: 1) Economic differences between the industrial North and agricultural South, particularly related to slavery; 2) States' rights versus federal authority, with Southern states advocating for more state autonomy; and 3) Political tensions over the expansion of slavery into new territories and states.
a popular cattle drive route in the years after the Civil War
Ulysses S. Grant
The North - which was trying to protect its own manufacturing industry by taxing imports. As it was mainly the South that needed imports (having no manufacturing industry), this looked like the North levying a tax on the South, and it caused a lot of bad blood.
House of Deputies
Mexican War
In the years leading up to the American Civil War, both Southerners and Northerners sought cheap, if also usable, land in the West. For the South more generally, however, the key was finding tillable soil that could be used to grow cotton -- and be worked with slave labor.