Political Disputes: 1820-1860 Dbq Analysis
DBQ: Political Disputes: 1820-1860
Political Disputes use to be handled out calmly, but as the years went by, people from both the North and the South had political disputes as well as personal disputes (physical arguments). In the time period of the Missouri Compromise, (In 1820), political and personal disputes began to rise in both the North and South. Disagreements use to be settled out very calmly, but soon disagreements became out of hand. The North and South had personal disputes. In the Compromise of 1850, the North and South had a stand-off between the free states and the slave states. This argument concerned or worried the North and the South. In 1860, Southern states had begun to secede from the Union. The states seceded …show more content…
There were also personal disputes in the time period. Arguments led into admitting California as a free state. Southerners did not agree with this opportunity and wanted California as a Southern Slave State. Other arguments between the North and South were the formations of governments in the South without limitations on slavery, giving orders to Texas to withdraw the land claims in New Mexico, evening out Texas by having the federal government to strike the state’s debts, allowing slavery to last in Washington D.C., banning slave trade in Washington D.C., passing a more successful fugitive slave law, and limiting Congress from sliding into the interstate slave …show more content…
However, this Compromise was not successful. After President Abraham Lincoln ran and won the presidential election, there were more Republican votes than the Southern Democrats, the Northern Democrats, and the Constitutional Union (Doc. H). The votes that had been cast out and stated that Lincoln won by 180 votes in the electoral college. Breckinridge only had seventy-two electoral votes, Douglass only had twelve, and Bell had thirty-nine electoral votes. Southern states suddenly feared of Lincoln, and Southern states began to succeed or withdraw from the Union. The only way to solve this problem was to start a Civil War. Before this War, Kentucky had decided to become a free state which made the Confederate states even more angry. In April of 1865, the North had declared victory on the South of the Civil
Political Disputes use to be handled out calmly, but as the years went by, people from both the North and the South had political disputes as well as personal disputes (physical arguments). In the time period of the Missouri Compromise, (In 1820), political and personal disputes began to rise in both the North and South. Disagreements use to be settled out very calmly, but soon disagreements became out of hand. The North and South had personal disputes. In the Compromise of 1850, the North and South had a stand-off between the free states and the slave states. This argument concerned or worried the North and the South. In 1860, Southern states had begun to secede from the Union. The states seceded …show more content…
There were also personal disputes in the time period. Arguments led into admitting California as a free state. Southerners did not agree with this opportunity and wanted California as a Southern Slave State. Other arguments between the North and South were the formations of governments in the South without limitations on slavery, giving orders to Texas to withdraw the land claims in New Mexico, evening out Texas by having the federal government to strike the state’s debts, allowing slavery to last in Washington D.C., banning slave trade in Washington D.C., passing a more successful fugitive slave law, and limiting Congress from sliding into the interstate slave …show more content…
However, this Compromise was not successful. After President Abraham Lincoln ran and won the presidential election, there were more Republican votes than the Southern Democrats, the Northern Democrats, and the Constitutional Union (Doc. H). The votes that had been cast out and stated that Lincoln won by 180 votes in the electoral college. Breckinridge only had seventy-two electoral votes, Douglass only had twelve, and Bell had thirty-nine electoral votes. Southern states suddenly feared of Lincoln, and Southern states began to succeed or withdraw from the Union. The only way to solve this problem was to start a Civil War. Before this War, Kentucky had decided to become a free state which made the Confederate states even more angry. In April of 1865, the North had declared victory on the South of the Civil