Empathy vs Sympathy

Empathy is putting yourself in someone Else's shoes, while Sympathy is feeling emotion for someone Else's trouble.  Empathy is essential for Historians because they need to be able to look at things through different perspectives not just go off of their emotions to learn about history.

US History look back, 1600's-1860's

The US went through a lot of changes from the 1600's to the Civil War. The US started out as small settlements in the 1600's, one of the most famous of these was Jamestown founded in 1607 by entrepreneurs. Later in 1620, the pilgrims arrived and become the first self-governing colony. By the 1700's the 13th colonies had been established and a population had boomed to 1.6 million by 1760. After the Declaration of Independence in 1776, We denounced that we were apart of Great Britain and now we were not a country yet but we were close. After the Revolutionary War we gained our independence from Britain and were now a country!
     After our first form of Government failed, The US decided to revise it in 1787. One of the issues they faced was over Slavery, The slave holding states wanted to count them as part of the population which the non slave states didn't agree. They decided to count slaves as 3/5th of the population. Another issue they tackled was the import of slaves which they decided to let people import slaves until 1808. In 1801, The US decided to expand and bought more than 800,000 square miles of land from France, this purchase would later be known as The Louisiana Purchase. But the "ole" US had another slavery issue soon and in 1820, they decided to prohibit slavery north of a certain latitude  (36 degree, 30 minutes north). This began the "Era of Compromise" where Congress began keeping the number of slave and free states equal. It wasn't all drama in 1820 as the US added Missouri and Maine as states.
                 From 1829 to 1848 The US now had   Texas after they declared independence from Mexico and also during this time frame US was in the Mexico war which after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo The US now had California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and parts of Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, and Wyoming for only 15 Million dollars. 1850 saw more Comprise as California enters as a free state, and the slave trade is banned in Washington D.C. to make sure slave states were happy they don't ban slavery in other Territories from Mexico and runaway slaves must be returned to their master.  1853, US gets more land from Mexico, gaining Southern Arizona and New Mexico. In 1854, The Republican party is founded they are founded by opponents of slavery. In 1857 Supreme court overturns the Missouri Comprise, claims Congress had no right to regulate spread of slavery. Congress can no longer make comprises. 1860 Civil war starts.