01/06/2011 The Road to War 1. Sectional Armistice of 1850 President Taylor adopted a form of popular sovereignty when dealing with the issue of slavery. He essentially made California a free state. a. Proposal (clay) i. Henry Clay was very weary of this crisis. He created a new compromise that challenged Taylor’s leadership of the Whig party. ii. In January of 1850‚ Clay got Daniel Webster to support him in creating a new comprehensive settlement to all
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a series of political debates in the year 1858 between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas. Lincoln challenged Douglas in a campaign for one of Illinois’ two United States Senate seats. Lincoln did lose the election‚ but arguably these debates are what led him to his presidency. There are three aspects of these debates that I would like to cover here and they are the causes‚ contents‚ and results. Stephen A. Douglas was a member of Congress
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In 1850 the law was passed with a strict interpretation‚ if a runaway slave escapes to a Northern state‚ they can be captured‚ and be returned to their Southern owners. Southerners were beyond happy with his new law‚ mostly because these cases were put under
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Civil War DBQ Americans are a democratic society that are driven for success. During the early nineteenth century the Americans were living off the buzz of the constitution and working together to form a functioning government. As Lincoln wisely said later on "A house divided against itself cannot stand.” The issue of slavery was one of such magnitude that division on such an issue would inevitably lead to a war‚ and could not have been avoided by compromise. With the Missouri Compromise
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escaped each year to the North. They would disappear along the underground railroad. Once the slaves reached freedom (the North)‚ they were not required to be returned to their masters. This enraged slaveholders‚ so they took action. As a result in 1850‚ the Fugitive Slave Act was put into place. Bleeding Kansas is the period of violence during the settling of Kansas. The Kansas-Nebraska Act nullified the Missouri compromise and instead used popular sovereignty. Free-state and proslavery
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political views on slavery eventually led to the termination of compromise. Henry Clay‚ the Great Compromiser‚ generated the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 in order to maintain the country as a whole. The Missouri Compromise declared Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. The Compromise of 1850 admitted California as a free state‚ ended slave trade in Washington D.C. and a stronger Fugitive Slave Law passed. In 1833‚ Senator Henry Clay stated‚”…it is impossible that
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Civil war began in 1787? Though the Civil War itself did not begin in 1787‚ many events from that point lead up to it. Such events like the creation of the “Northwest Ordinance of 1787”. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 was a system of government for the territory North of Ohio. In these territories slavery would be prohibited. While in the south cotton was becoming very profitable after the invention of the cotton gin in 1793. The southern economy depended solely on cotton production. They
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political viewpoint and to solidify a combination of highly sensitive political forces into a strong and compelling movement. This new political party‚ with its history changing platform‚ arose out of a long and complex sequence of events. In the 1850s America’s culture was crumbling. Decades of political compromise and avoidance on the issue of slavery had kept an uneasy peace. The Mexican-American war added over 500‚000 square miles to the U.S. and rekindled sectional competition for slave versus
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the United States are irrefutable. Published in 1852‚ Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel was written as a direct response to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850; second of a pair of federal laws criminalizing the aiding and abetting of escaped slaves within the both slave and free states. Through Uncle Tom’s Cabin‚ Stowe denounces the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and the entire system of slavery by exhibiting that even in its best conditions‚ the evils of slavery are in fundamental opposition to the moral principles
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Harriet Tubman is a great example of an extraordinary women in women history because of her actions that have affected our present lives. She served in the Underground Railroads during the 1850’s. But not many know how she escaped slavery around 1849 and she also helped the Union during the Civil War. To them she helped cooked‚ was a nurse‚ she helped spy for the Union‚ and she was the first women to lead a military expedition. She and Colonel James Montgomery planned a raid to free the slaves in
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