journal #9

In today's economy many are trying to save their assets and plan accordingly for the future in an attempt to prevent another fall out. I find that this is somehow related to the politics of the United States after the war. The Civil War was a huge dispute that tore the nation apart and caused the people to change their way of life after it ended. This reminds me of the economic depression that our nation is currently trying to pull out of. When the economy crashed the entire nation was in a panic and everyone had to change the way they lived their daily lives. Ever since the government has been doing whatever they can to pull the nation back together and bring the people back to normal. Bailouts, new laws, new healthcare/welfare systems have been put in motion to try to get the country back to the way it was before. Similarly the industrialization and expansion was a way to bring the nation back together as a whole. After the war many had to change they way they lived. Slave owners had to adjust to life without slaves, the freed slaves had to adjust to life on their own. Many had to struggle to get an education or a job, weather it was a slave in the south unable to get hired because of their skin color or a poor white worker who could not get an education because of the schools set up solely for those freed slaves. When the nation began expanding and developing all of these new technologies, the nation grew together. This time period was so exciting for the people, everything was changing and everyone was a part of it. Today these changes are not nearly as exciting, but they are all in an attempt to try to bring the nation back together and build a better future for its people.