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1. Slavery and the problems (short)2. Civil war- timeline, basic info and causes3. Lincoln- background, snapshot of career (very brief), his republican philosophy i.e belief in amendment, emancipation proclaimation of 63 in short and it's failure (till the part from where the movie begins).4. Then i can give the brief of the movie in 2..3 sentences (optional)Slavery and the problems (short)Slavery in the United Stateswas the legal institution of chattel slaverythat existed in the USAin the 18th and 19th centuries after it gained independence and before the end of the American civil war.Economic Efficiency: InTime on the Cross,Fogel and Engerman equate efficiency to Total Factor Productivity (TFP) the output per average unit of input on a farm. Using this measurement, farms that employed slaves using the Gang System were southern farms were 35% more efficient than Northern farms which used free labor.Short & long Term: "the colonies in which there were no slaves became more populous and richer than those in which slavery flourished