...Over the years people have thought of many different causes for the civil war that took over 600,000 American lives in 1861-1865. Many people believe that the only true cause of the civil war was because of slavery but the war itself was fought over something much bigger than just slavery it was fought over the great political difference between the North and South. The actions of the Democratic politicians from the South and Republican politicians from the North kept the conflict between the states at the center of the political debate for years and made the war inevitable. Key political causes of the civil war include the acts congress passed, the split that happened throughout the years between congress, and most importantly the election in 1860 that elected Abraham Lincoln as president. Congress, throughout the years since America won independence passed laws they believed would help their nation. But as slavery became more of a problem in the nation, acts passed by congress became more important and affected the outcome of the American nation and its citizens much greater. Congress passed many acts throughout the years leading to the Civil War, but some very important ones that both held off the civil war and pushed the civil war are the Missouri Compromise of 1820, the Connecticut Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas – Nebraska Act of 1854. The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 after Missouri requested in 1819 to be part of the Union as a slave state. Missouri’s request...
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...The Civil War was a remarkable moment in history. This war went from 1861 to 1865, between the North and South of the United States. It started because the North wanted a unified country, while the South wanted state right’s, not a federal government. The war continued because the South wanted slaves, unlike the North. This war is a time in history that will never be forgotten. The North and South had always been drifting apart because of the major differences in civilization and economy (Guelzo). The main factor being slavery. Since the South was so agricultural, they thought that making slaves do their work was acceptable. They had many big farms and needed workers, so instead of working themselves, they made slaves do their work for them. The North had their own agricultural resources and did not...
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...were at war. For decades, the North and South had many disagreements, and grew further apart as more events occurred. The North and South were two different worlds, yet one country. The two regions had different cultures, and ways of living, and sectional issues began to arise, splitting the once unified nation into two, a Union and a Confederacy. This outbreak of the American Civil War was irrepressible; the economies of the North and the South were very different, there were unresolvable social disagreements between the two regions, and there was a strong political divide between the North and the South, which all led to an inability to compromise, and in turn...
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...brought the United States into a civil war. The Missouri Compromise allowed the North and the South to be on an even playing field because there was a balanced number of free and slave states. Then, about 30 years later, the Kansas-Nebraska act violated the agreement of the Missouri Compromise. The Wilmot Proviso affected the balance of free and slave states by eliminating slavery in the land that was acquired from the Mexican-American war. The Dred Scott v. Sandford case proved that the Southern slave states were dominant in the Supreme Court. Southerners argued that slavery needed to be part of daily life to support their economy, so when Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860, it pushed the Southerners to secede....
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...Many people think that the Civil War was about slavery, but, it was actually about federal and state rights. The south and the north had very different opinions on slavery, and with that, tensions grew. The threee topics that I will be discussing today, are the Missouri Compromise, John Brown's raid, and Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. These events had negative and positive impacts. They even played a part in the Civil War. In 1819 the United States consisted of 11 free and 11 slave states. They had a balance, and Missouri had wanted to enter the Union. If Missouri entered as a slave state, the balance would be upset. Later, Maine had wanted to join the Union as a non-slave state. This kept the balance, but, in 1820, the Congress adopted the missouri compromise which stated that Louisiana Territory north of the border would be free of slavery, while south of it would be slave states. This also gave southern slave owners the rights to pursue escaped prisoners in the north, and take them back. Not only was the north mad that anotehr slave state had been permitted, but the south was also angry because Congress was making laws regarding slavery. This led to some of the first disagreements between the north and the south....
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...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 to the initial suit, the Supreme Court of America ruled in favor of Scott’s master because of the fact that people of African descent were considered as property...
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...Missouri Compromise of 1820 In 1819, Missouri requested statehood, and the freedom to become a slave state. This set off a heated debate, as the twenty two states then part of the union were evenly divided eleven and eleven between free and slave. While northerners, in accordance with their plan to slowly kill off slavery by not allowing new states to be free, were against the idea of Missouri being a slave state, while Southerners used a state's rights argument. They reasoned that, like the original thirteen states, new states should be able to decide the issue of slavery for themselves. In the end, both sides reached a compromise. In the immediate future, so the states were not unbalanced, Maine became a free state, and going forward no state north of the...
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...slaves 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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...Mexican-America war: included California as well as parts of other Western territories. Fire-Eaters: A general unofficial term used to describe a group of Southern politicians who were extremely in favor of slavery and thus advocated for secession. Underground Railroad: A route that slaves took to secretly escape from their masters to freedom. Harriet Tubman: A particularly famous conductor of the railroad, helping to sneak hundreds of slaves out of servitude. William H. Seward: A somewhat radical politician who advocated for the abolition of slavery on moral grounds. Higher Law: The stance that...
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...the Compromise of 1850 opened a gap in the slave system regarding popular sovereignty. Shown in a map are effects of the Compromise of 1850 where the Utah and New Mexico territories were placed under the principle of popular sovereignty (Document A). This is a significant factor from a social standpoint because popular sovereignty created the belief that Americans had a voice in the government. Negatively, however, popular sovereignty led to clashes between the pro-slavery and antislavery groups, such as in “Bleeding Kansas.” Moreover, the Constitution is left for interpretation, and from a Southern standpoint, is taken advantage of by the North. When the South assisted in the acquisition of a new territory, the North instantly fought the ability of Southern men to bring slavery into the land. This prevents all new states from entering the Union as a slave state (Document B). The purpose of this is to consider that the Constitution could be destroyed without equilibrium of slave and free states, much like the Missouri Compromise’s purpose. Also, the Fugitive Slave Clause written in the Constitution was manipulated with mischievous intentions. On a poster from Boston in regards to the dangers of slave catchers, it is shown that police officers will not assist colored people, rather turn them in because of the Fugitive Slave Laws of 1850 (Document...
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...The year, 1850 is a very significant era in the history of United States being the pre civil war era. The north was undergoing huge developments and progress and people were immigrating to big cities. The southern region is a total contrary example, with a total of 3.2 million black slaves. The region was not developing due to total dependence and cotton production, rather than, industrialization. The era presents two entirely different regions in the same region leading to the civil war in the end. Contrary to north, southern region had feudal society and prevalence of slavery. There were extremely rich, each with enslaved people. The difference was escalating between both regions, and people belonging to those regions they identified themselves as different people. The difference led to the Civil war in the end. Kansan is 1850’s The state of Kansas possesses a central place in civil war history, as well as, the pre civil war era. Before the beginning of civil war, Kansas was undergoing fights between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups. The tension was centered to address the notion, whether Kansas would be regarded as slave or a Free State territory or a slave state territory Negros (Kleppnerr, p. 300-316). The issue was to maintain peace between Abolitionists and slave holders. The slavery and its opposing groups initiated war on Kansas border in 1850, which is known as ‘the border war’. Since, the government decided to shift a huge number of Native Americans to Kansas,...
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...asked all throughout the antebellum period. Yet, all through that period, it was never answered. Conflict between abolishing slavery, which was fought for by the Northerners and the preservation of slavery, fought for by the Southerners has spiked as time went on. Though, each plan that was designed to make a compromise between the two only seemed to aggravate them even more. For example, The WIlmot Proviso Act was shot down by opposing Southerners, the Compromise of 1850 infuriated both argumentative sides, and the Kansas Nebraska Act escalated sectional tensions. With every new act or establishment that came rolling our way, another crack...
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...president began the age of american nationalism? 2. list of 4 things one of them did not aid in western expansion? 3. list of 4 cities, which of them is not a western farm city? 4. what state became the leader in industrial production? 5. what war created an out burst of nationalist pride? 6. what was the 1st state west of the missippii river? 7. list of 4 things listed one of them is not a part of the monoroe doctrine 8. 4 presidents which one of them advocated a week nation government? 9. who was the 1st president to die in office? 10. no slave owners in the south comprised what percent of the population? 11. slave folk lore dealt with what subject? 12. what was the original number of states to compose the confederacy? Fill in the blank 1. the BLANK lagged behind in factory production? 2. BLANK were blamed for most crimes? 3. in the absence of 2 party competion BLANK developed? 4. jackson led the BLANK party to victory? 5. BLANK ordered the removal of the eastern indians? 6. BLANK enhance the power of the president? 7. BLANK was the president casted from his own party? 8. slave religion taught a gospel BLANK? 9. The women’s movement grew out of the BLANk movement ? 10. BLANK 11. the compromise of BLANK(year) restored section peace for a time? 12. BLANK was president of the confederacy? 13. the south chose to fight a BLANK war. 14. The battle at BLANK turned the tide of the war. 15. BLANK was offered command of the union army? True/False 1. many...
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...The largest sectional difference that led to a growing divide between the North and the South was the issue of slavery. The North had become industrialized. They created many factories and had a large shipping and fishing industries in which they didn’t need the use of slaves as much as the South. The winters were long and cold, so, there weren’t many months for farming as in the South and there was not a lot of flat land. The North had a lot of mountains and rocky soil that wouldn’t help with the farming, either. The South’s economy, on the other hand, relied heavily on the use of slaves. The climate and the soil of the South were good for growing warm weather crops such as tobacco and cotton. The South had massive plantations and farms everywhere and they relied on the use of slaves to farm this land. In turn, the issue of slavery caused a lot of turmoil between the North and the South. The North, for the most part, was against slavery in the South and didn’t want to see it expand to the Western states and territories. The North’s leaders saw economic and political advantages to leaving that area open to settlement by farmers and the working class. The North viewed slavery as a moral issue; degrading and cruel. The South, on the other hand, wanted to protect its influence in the federal government, proposing that a balance should be between free and slave states as the Union expanded. They saw slavery as a necessary “must’ and a way of life. Both...
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