In the 18th century (1700s) United States, how did conflict and compromise help to unify the new nation. Write in a paragraph

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In the 18th century (the 1700s) the United States, conflict and compromise helped to unify the new nation in that the 13 North American colonies set aside their differences and had to work together, defending their interests against the oppression and heavy taxation imposed by the English crown.

The colonists were tired and angered for the heavy taxation such as the Navigation Acts, the Tea Act, or the Stamp Act, and the fact that they had no voice or representation in the British Parliament. This and other events such a the Boston Massacre, were causes of the American Revolutionary War of Independence, when the Continental Army led by General George Washington, defeated the British troops, and finally get independence from the English government.

after the civil war, and with the termination of slavery, the south was faced with a big problem; what was supposed to happen and how they were supposed to deal with the freedom and the rights that black people and freed slaves had gained as a result of the north defeating the south and forcing the end of slavery. first, most, if not all, of the workforce of the south came from slaves and they did not have an option to replace the loss of said workforce. second, particularly in the south, people were convinced that black people were lesser, less intelligent, less capable and less smart than whites. this posed a huge problem for them. also, southerners were faced with another issue; freed slaves now had a say in how their lives would be lived and the right to politically choose the way they would be governed. people in the south did not want to accept this, none of this and this opposition and the conflicts that arose from it, not to mention the afereffects of the war, forced the congress of the time to enact and enforce the reconstruction plans that had been proposed by president andrew johnson.

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