Comparing Film: Twelve Years A Slave And Lincoln

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On Twelve Years a Slave and Lincoln Both of these films deal with the darkest side of American history, I have to admire the United States will never hide their own history, they always take a critical attitude to shoot a lot of thought provoking film. I found out that Solomon Northup was kidnapped in 1841 he sold to the South as nigger, 1853 rescued after eight years in under the leadership of Lincoln who freed the slaves and started the American Civil War. The war started because state of eleven states in the southern the United States use Abraham Lincoln became president in 1861 on the ground as a reason to secede from the union, set up another with Jefferson Davis as "President" of the government, and the expulsion of the federal army stationed in the South. So Lincoln ordered the attack of "rebel" states. This war not only changed the US political and economic situation, but also led to the abolition of slavery in the American South, which also have an enormous impact on the future of civil society in the United States. …show more content…

In a few years, the number of free states and slave states in the Senate were compromised gradually to a balance point. Followed by the rise of large-scale revolution and the northern industrial democracy wave of industrialization, the old bipartisan pattern lift, increasingly intense and hostile ideology led to a gentleman's agreement made in the past in order to avoid crises, while the southern states made use of slave northern states had become the preferred destination for new immigrants, so that Congress and the presidential elections in the northern part were advantaged according to population size becoming lager and

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