This era of reform brought forth many new ideals, such as manifest destiny, Mormonism, transcendentalism, and women's rights. Nevertheless, all of this reform would eventually bring forth a new ideal of thinking, a more progressive ideal of thinking. Those in the north began the abolitionist movement. Those who supported colonization believed that the only thing that would rid the nation of slavery was actually bringing them back to Africa. However, it never got off the ground as even slaves did not support the idea. This idea was the worst of the bunch, but it provided new insights on civil rights. The rest of abolitions that wanted to keep African-Americans in the USA accomplished their task by spreading their message. Their message and argument was that all slaves once freed should not only be free in the eyes of the law, but enjoy every civil liberty a white man has. The north was changing very fast and their ideals on how the black man should be treated changed, instead of seeing them as people who made products for them to profit off of, they saw them as people without a true voice of their own. However, after this age of reform the abolitionist movement was exactly as strong as before, instead the main argument the north had about slavery was preventing its …show more content…
As for slavery across the USA Texas was the first new state to be slave. This provided the south with the opportunity to create even more of a profit off of what they thought was normal (slavery.) When it came to the rest of the new states in the union some in the south thought that they should be slave, and some thought that slavery should be decided by the people of the state. Nevertheless, the central ideal was that slavery would have a very great chance to continue its course. In the following years the south would be turned into a group of secessionists as they were not able to expand upon slavery as free as they wanted too. They believed that the north did not respect them, and this convinced them to secede from the union after Abe Lincoln was elected after not winning one electoral vote in any southern state. The north and the south during the time leading up to the civil war had vastly different opinions when it came to slavery. The north as a majority wanted to stop slavery and free the black man making them part of the USA's culture, while the south wanted to maintain their steady economy and expand upon it creating more profit for their already profitable staple of slavery. Both of these clashing ideals would eventually lead to the civil war where a catastrophic amount of