...The North and South were very different. The South was based on agriculture, while the North was more of a manufacturing economy. Since the North and the South were different, a lot of auguring broke out. Most of the augments were based on the Missouri Compromise of 1820, Nat Turner’s rebellion, The Wilmot Proviso, the Compromise of 1850, slave uprisings, and Tariffs. During the time leading to the Missouri Compromise of 1820, tenseness was created between pro-slavery and anti-slavery around the country and within the U.S. Congress. They began to get mad when Missouri asked the Union if they could become a slave state in 1819. This would have unbalanced the number of slave states (the South) and free states (the North). To keep order, Congress arranged a two-part compromise. First it granted Missouri’s request, but it made Maine a free state. The compromise also drew theoretical line between the slave and free states. Nat Turner was born on October 2, 1800, ever since the age of 20-21 he had been having visions that would tell him to run. At the age of twenty-seven he had his third vision that told him to run and kill the white men with their own weapons. In February, there was a solar eclipse which he thought was the sign, he a four of the most trusted men he knew got ready but then had to cancel it because Turner got sick, then On August 13, the sun looked bluish-greenish and so tuner took that as the sign and met his men in the woods for dinner. They went to the Travis’...
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...The Senate Campaign of 1858 Introduction The Senate Campaign of 1858 was called the one of greatest Campaign of the century. In the summer of 1858, two candidates campaigned across the state of Illinois for a seat in the United States Senate. That belonged to Stephen Douglas from the Democratic Party. He was seeking reelection. His opponent was a lawyer from the newly established Republican Party. His name was Abraham Lincoln. Out of this great campaign birth the Lincoln-Douglas debates which was a series of formal political debates in 1858 between the two candidates, but also received national importance. The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a defining moment in American political history, affording Abraham Lincoln a major opportunity to create an image for himself on the wider public stage. Stephen Douglas was an established political figure and had distinguished himself in numerous congressional battles, while Lincoln was not known in this arena. Discussion In 1832, Lincoln decided to run for the Illinois State Legislature. Lincoln was to campaign for local improvements such as better roads and canals. However, a war with the Black Hawk Indians broke out before Lincoln’s campaign could get going, in response he joined the Army. After his...
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...Introduction The Senate Campaign of 1858 was called the one of greatest Campaign of the century. In the summer of 1858, two candidates campaigned across the state of Illinois for a seat in the United States Senate. That belonged to Stephen Douglas from the Democratic Party. He was seeking reelection. His opponent was a lawyer from the newly established Republican Party. His name was Abraham Lincoln. Out of this great campaign birth the Lincoln-Douglas debates which was a series of formal political debates in 1858 between the two candidates, but also received national importance. The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a defining moment in American political history, affording Abraham Lincoln a major opportunity to create an image for himself on the wider public stage. Stephen Douglas was an established political figure and had distinguished himself in numerous congressional battles, while Lincoln was not known in this arena. Discussion In 1832, Lincoln decided to run for the Illinois State Legislature. Lincoln was to campaign for local improvements such as better roads and canals. However, a war with the Black Hawk Indians broke out before Lincoln’s campaign could get started, in response he joined the Army. After his short wartime, Lincoln returned to politics and lost the race of Illinois Legislature. In 1834 Lincoln made a second attempt to maintain a seat in the state legislature, which he was successful in winning the seat. Lincoln was elected in 1834, 1836, 1838, and...
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...modernism, technology, and academic classicism. Renaissance technological advancements include wire cables supporting the Brooklyn Bridge in the State of New York, along with cultural advancements found in the Prairie School houses, Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in architecture and sculpture. The political heir of American nationalism evolved with the Gilded Age and New Imperialism school of thought. The American Renaissance produced major influential literary works from some of the most brilliant minds in U.S. history, including Ralph Waldo Emerson's the "Representative Man (1850)", Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlett Letter (1850)" and "The House of Seven Gables (1851)," Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick," Henry David Thoreau's "Walden (1854)," and Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass (1855)." American Renaissance Literary Masterpieces The American Renaissance, a literary and cultural period circa extending from 1820 to the mid-1860s, gained inspiration from the unresolved issues of the American Revolution. The American Renaissance literary style was coined as "Romanticism," an international philosophical movement that redefined the perceptions of Western cultures, and seldom refers to the preconceived notions of love. Some important authors arising out of this era include: James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Jacobs, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allen Poe, and Herman Melville. These brilliant scholars herald with American literature's...
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...It eventually turned into an economy depended on cotton and required mass labor forces known as slaves, which was the backbone of its economy. As time went on the South began to feel more and more greatly threatened by the North. The South began to become dismayed with the lack of acknowledgement concerning federal control over state rights. Many southern states felt that the new constitution did not fully acknowledge if at all the rights of states to act independently. This was an exponential concern with right of slavery. As America began to expand with the addition of new states from the Louisiana Purchase and the victory of the Mexican War, the fight arose between slave and non-slave state proponents. The Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and Kansas- Nebraska Act of 1854 were all based around the use or freedom of slaves in new territories causing rising tensions between the North and South. The growth of the Abolition movement twisted the nerves of slave owners throughout the south. The movement was influential for abolitionists against slavery that grew especially after the publishing of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and The Raid of Harpers Ferry. The election of Abraham Lincoln was the final straw for slave states. Lincoln was seen as an anti-slavery activist, causing the secession South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia,...
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...The Missouri Compromise settled the question of slavery for many years in the United States. It's repeal would bring so much conflict that it would lead to the Civil War. Missouri applied for statehood on December 18, 1818. This created a huge problem because the Northern states refused to even allow another slave state to join the Union. A compromise developed when Maine applied for statehood in 1819. Maine could join as a free state to balance out Missouri joining as a slave state. By the year 1820, the compromise had been realized. The first step was that Missouri and Maine would be admitted to the Union, one as free and the others as slave. In 1845 the Missouri Compromise was revoked as part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The revoke was more impactful than the compromise itself. It effectively settled the question of slavery from 1820 to 1854, it's revoke began the sectarian conflict which eventually brought the United States into the Civil War....
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...important cases that have ever been tried in the United States of America and was heard in the Old Courthouse of St. Louis. This case that is usually known as the Dred Scott Decision was a ruling by the Supreme Court of America that African people imported into the country and detained as slaves were not protected by the U.S Constitution and could never be American citizens. Dred Scott was a slave who sued for his freedom from his master in a Missouri court in the year 1846. As part of his arguments, Dred Scott claimed that he resided in Illinois which was a free state and part of the Louisiana Territory. Therefore, he claimed that he was a free man because of his residence in a free territory in which slavery was prohibited by the 1820 Missouri Compromise (“Dred Scott v. Sanford” par, 1). However, Dred Scott’s suit for freedom in the local federal court in Missouri was unsuccessful. Eleven years later after his initial suit in the Missouri court, Scott brought a new suit in the United States’ Supreme Court. This was after the federal court ordered the jury to depend on Missouri law for the conclusion of the case regarding Scott’s freedom. Additionally, Scott decided to appeal to the United States’ Supreme Court following the decision of the Missouri Supreme Court to consider him as a slave. In his defense, Scott’s master maintained that the American Constitution did not allow people of African descent and descendant of slaves to be considered as the country’s citizens. Similar...
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...in the South to grow it. This coincided with the North becoming a more industrialized region that didn't need to depend on slaves. 1819 Missouri Compromise The Missouri Compromise was brokered by Senator Henry Clay to settle the dispute between the North and the South about if the Western territories would be slave or free. Under the terms of the Compromise, slavery would only be allowed in Missouri and south of the 36th parallel. The need for the Missouri Compromise illustrates how the North and the South were beginning to hold very different views on how allowable slavery was to the nation. Bitter feelings about the compromise persisted in both the North and the South. 1828 The Nullification Crisis The Nullification Crisis grew out of a protective tariff of 1828. The tariff was popular with the Northern states, because it provided protection for American made goods. Southern states traded heavily with Great Britain during this time, and felt it would damage their economies. With the support of Vice-President John C. Calhoun, South Carolina passed the Ordinance of Nullification. It stated South Carolina did not have to abide by the tariff, because the tariff was unconstitutional. It looked like force might be used by the national government against South Carolina, but instead the national government reached a compromise with South Carolina. There are strong parallels between...
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...hard one, leaving in its wake destruction, discord, and civil unrest. ____________________________________________________________ ____________ 1776: Declaration of Independence • Was written by Thomas Jefferson • Was signed on July 4th, severing all ties to Britain 1787: Northwest Ordinance • Was passed on July 13th establishing the intent to expand into the West adding new states to the Union. Constitutional Convention • Held their final meeting on September 17th signing into effect the Constitution of the United States. 1794: The Cotton Gin • Was patented by Eli Whitney, increasing the production of clean cotton • The value of and need for slaves increased within the cotton states. 1820: The Missouri Compromise • Was established to...
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...The Civil War was a time of chaos and different opinions. It all started with Abraham Lincoln being elected to be our 16th president. Slowly tension from the South and North started to build up about slavery, which then resulted in war. This war lasted for about four years with many significant battles. There were many important events that were leading up to the Civil War, but there were a few that were the key causes. The six events that are vital to the war’s build up are the Missouri Compromise, Nat Turner’s Rebellion, Compromise of 1850, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Bleeding Kansas, and John Brown’s Raid. The Missouri Compromise was in 1820, after the Louisiana Purchase. As time went on after the Louisiana Purchase, the Congress decided that it...
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...conflict with in the union in the year 1820-1854. However there we other factors like slavery expansion and state vs. federal. The sources illustrate this to different degrees. Sources A, C,B and E can be grouped as they discuss that westward expansion is the main cause which supports the statement but it is E that does so most strongly. Sources C and A can be further linked as they touch on other factors that were important such as slavery. Whilst source D provides an opposing view that westward expansion was the main cause of conflict because it argues Slavery and the abolitionist movement was the reason for conflict within the union. Sources A, B, C and E all link to westward expansion however it is E that fully agrees to the statement. Source E strongly agrees with the statement because it is talking about the territory in particular the territory of Nebraska for example is says ‘Vast unoccupied region’ this shows that Nebraska was a problem and was making politics sectional. It also mentions ‘vast territory yet exempt from these terrible evils’ this is suggesting that the Nebraska territory is all part of the slave power conspiracy which Douglas was now part of as he substituted the Missouri Compromise for popular sovereignty which angered the North as it could lead to the expansion of slavery. This can be shown in source E from when it says ‘violation of a sacred pledge, as a criminal betrayal’ the scared pledge is the Missouri compromise in addition the criminal betrayal is...
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...Slavery Timeline Samantha Wheeler Argosy University US History 9 March 2016 Slavery Timeline 1712 – Slave Codes 1775 – Dunmore’s Proclamation 1794 – Invention of the cotton gin 1820 – Compromise of 1820 1846-1848 – Mexican American war Slave codes were laws that were put into play by the colonies to restrict the slaves’ behaviors. The White settlers were afraid that since the number of African Americans was increasing, there was a greater chance for a violent rebellion to occur (Ushistoryorg, 2016). These laws impacted the slaves immensely. For example, these laws made it so that slaves were not allowed to own their own property since they were considered property themselves, they were not allowed to assemble without the presence of a white person, it was illegal to tach a slave to read or write, and slaves that lived off the plantation were restricted to certain curfews (Ushistoryorg, 2016). Also, if an African American was accused of a crime against a white person, they were automatically considered guilty (Ushistoryorg, 2016). Slaves were not allowed to give their testimonies or even appear in court. Slaves could not legally get married, which made it easier for their owner to separate them and sell them to another owner (Ushistoryorg, 2016). In November of 1775, John Murray, Virginia’s Royal Governor, issued the Dunmore proclamation which offered freedom to slaves who agreed to fight for the British. Murray expected the slaves to be motivated by the ability...
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...intact in the South. In contrast, most Northerners were in favor of completely abolishing slavery while others liked the idea of keeping slavery in the South, but stopping it from expanding to the new territories. Tension rose between the North and the South because of manifest destiny. In 1820, the Missouri Compromise was passed because of the conflict in Congress and the U.S. government. It prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory except within the boundaries of the new state of Missouri. This solved matters for a little while, but the question was raised again in 1850 after the Mexican-American War regarding the status of the territories acquired during the war. The Compromise of 1850 defused that tension and avoided secession or civil war and reduced sectional conflict for four years. In 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska which opened new land for settlement. The same problems arose again but this time, they were solved through popular sovereignty. The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the settlers in the territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery in each territory. Despite many different compromises, manifest destiny still caused tension between the North and South. The ongoing sectional conflict continued to escalate until the start of the Civil War. It only really ended when African Americans were given full rights as United States...
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...be the “Land of the Free.” the United States is free because the North won the war and slavery was abolished. I believe that Foote was trying to convey that in order to understand how the United States became what it is, we first need to understand where we started. To understand how the United States became considered the “Land of the Free” we must acknowledge the steps that were taken that led to the American Civil War. I believe that the first step taken on our way to civil war was in 1820 with the passing of the Missouri Compromise. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 set a boundary between the North and South that stated any states or territories north of this boundary would remain free and any south of the boundary could maintain slavery. (Schultz, 2012, pg. 174). I believe that by setting a specific boundary between the North and South the government was setting the stage for a civil war. The next major step came 30 years later with the passing of the Compromise of 1850. The Compromise of 1850 “admitted California to the Union as a free state.” (Schultz, 2012, pg. 235). Admitting California as a free state would tip the balance of power in Congress to favor the North and their antislavery beliefs. It was at this time that the South started...
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...The territory of California lay on both sides of the parallel, meaning that half of their state prohibited slavery and the other half permitted it. This challenge had to be addressed when in 1850 California applied for admission as a free state, shifting the balance of power in congress to the free states. Daniel Webster of Maine offered a comprise that presented four part solution to keep the Union together “The Compromise of 1850 admitted California to the United States as a free state, while New Mexico and Utah were organized as territories with the fate of slavery there to be decided by the voters—a system known as popular sovereignty...
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