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    free states along the 36-30 parallel‚ which divided the states into North and South. The North became free states and the South became the slave states. The Missouri Compromise helped keep things neat and even but split the states. The Compromise of 1850 was made to settle issues between North and South about territory and slavery that was caused by the Mexican-American War. There were five bills made. The first bill was that California was a free state. The second state was that Texas would be paid

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    Slavery was an important and crucial development to the United States and Texas. This allowed their economies to grow and fuel the development of these states. However‚ as states started to join the union‚ slavery started to decline in the northern United States and increase in the Lower United State including Texas. The United States was divided on slavery and the Norther States abolished slavery while the southern states embraced it. The northern states above the Missouri Compromise of 1820

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    Throughout history many governments have had a strong hold on the economy and their practices. Slavery was a very inhuman practice that greatly affected the US. Back during The New Nation Era‚ not even the government could resist against the practice of slavery. The institution of slavery was stronger than the US government. The institution became so bound to the government that their had to be underlying roots to how slavery started‚ due to how strong this bond was‚ and what it took to destroy it

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    Unit 7 War and Peace “Under what circumstances should the U.S use military force against other people/countries? What should be the goal of foreign policy? Is peace possible?” The United States should use military force in defense of personal liberties and rights‚ for stability and security‚ in self defense‚ and as a last resort‚ when peaceful resolution and/or compromise is impossible. The goal of U.S. foreign policy should be to that which benefits itself and its citizens. Peace is possible

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    sojourner truth

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    ethical appeal to convince her listeners women are equal to men by giving an example of how long she has been around‚ showing she is intelligent and knows what she’s talking about. Truth lived through slavery‚ the civil war‚ and the fugitive slave law of 1850. She mentioned that she was “above 80 years old” and that she has spent “40 years a slave and forty years free”. By telling this to her audience it makes her a credible speaker showing she’s been around‚ seen‚ heard‚ and gone through a lot herself

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    Top 10 List loaded with content and previous DBQ topics Highly recommended that you know everything on these lists for the AP History test! Top 10 List: Colonization through the Civil War Top 10: Colonial Differences – NE (Mass.)‚ Middle (Penn.)‚ South/Chesapeake (Virginia) 1. NE – Religion played a much greater role than in the South – Puritans (Mass. Bay colony)‚ Pilgrims/Separatists (Plymouth) – most southerners were Anglican but there were few churches as people were more spread out

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    Assess the extent to which slavery was the principal cause of the American Civil War. The American Civil War of 1861 – 1865 occurred principally because of slavery. Although other catalysts contributed to the outbreak of war‚ all were inextricably bound to the institution of slavery‚ which ultimately upset the equilibrium between the North and the South. Economic differences highlighted through agriculture and industry‚ states rights and the admission of new states as slave or free and the constitution

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    David Thoreau Questioned the spiritual cost of the market revolution 15) Canals and railroads spurred the development of towns and cities along their route 16) Which mode of transportation had the most dramatic impact on American economic lide by 1850? railroad 17) This individual left England illegally and brought his cotton spinning machine constriction skills to the United States: Samuel Slater 18) While Eli Whitney’s role in developing the cotton gin is well known‚ he was also a pioneer

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    1860‚ the Civil War broke out‚ ultimately because of economic‚ political and social aspects of westward expansion. Therefore‚ westward expansion caused the Civil War. The Western Frontier was seen as a profitable enterprise by many people in the 1850s. In Ripon‚ Wisconsin in 1854‚ the Republican Party was formed with contrasting views to other political parties; they wanted no slavery in any territory purely because the Republicans wanted the west to be open only to free white labor. The Republican

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    Crittenden Compromise

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    Compromise as a last ditch effort to end the Civil War. It‚ like many other compromises before it‚ tried to make a compromise between the North and the South about which United States territories should and should not have slavery. The Compromise of 1850‚ and the Missouri Compromise were two previous compromises that had been passed that dealt with slavery in the United States. The Crittenden Compromise proposed that the United States take the boundary between the slave states and free states that

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