” ― Abraham Lincoln‚ The Lincoln-Douglas Debates Document A Document B Source: 1885 Illinois‚ Map of debates Source: 1885‚ Cartoon Document C Source: August 27‚ 1858‚ in Freeport‚ Illinois He was a significant force behind the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act; both which included the idea of "popular sovereignty." Douglas was a strong believer in this doctrine‚ which said that the people of the territories should choose whether they wanted slavery or not. On the other
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to the advancement of slavery. After the Louisiana Purchase of 1803‚ which brought in more land that stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains for the colonists to farm on‚ there was a higher demand for slaves. The three-fifths compromise didn’t help much either. After farmers was informed that their slaves counted as part of a person‚ which means more votes for that state‚ they saw an opportunity to run the government. The situation wasn’t all bad for the African Americans. Looking
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DBQ Essay Jacksonian Democracy was a movement for more democracy in the American government in the 1830s. This particular movement was led by President Andrew Jackson. Jackson had wanted more rights for the common man‚ and wanted to eliminate all aristocracy in the American nation. This democracy would be aided by the people of the recently established settlements in the South and West. The Jacksonian Democrats had referred to themselves as to be guardians of the Constitution‚ by giving
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DBQ Middle Ages 1) There was great rebirth of literature and the art after a thousand of cultural sterility. Writers from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries related themselves to the Italian writers of the renaissance. These writes were apart of the middle ages. Also they turned for inspiration to the civilization of the Roman and Greek antiquity. 2) The use of this one term to refer to an age indicates the belief that all diverse phenomena at that age intellectual‚ artistic‚ religious
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meet the necessities of slavery.” This basically means that the constitution could have many interpretations on the basis that no “right” interpretation was ever stated.There were many feuds between documents following the Constitution such as the Compromise of 1850 as show in in the map of (Document A) where the country is broken into 2 parts‚ not unified because of slavery‚ along with the Fugitive Slave Law‚ (Document
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“Buddhism DBQ” Buddhism was first introduced to China in the first century C.E.‚ a few centuries after it was first introduced in India. As expected‚ it was met with mixed results; some criticized it to the point of blaming it for the country’s social and political problems‚ some defended its beliefs and followed it without hesitation‚ and yet others remained pretty indifferent and wished to meld Buddhism with other religions and create a unique culture. For example‚ Documents 2 and 3 defend
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Even though unemployment rates were high‚ people did have jobs and some of them were not good. Workers who wanted to compromise with their employers would sit down at their workplace and protest. They would refuse to work until the settlement they wanted was reached. Lack of proper working conditions caused many of these protests (Document 7). In the case‚ Schechter vs
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Farmers everywhere in the United States during the late nineteenth century had valid reasons to complaint against the economy because the farmers were constantly being taken advantage of by the railroad companies and banks. All farmers faced similar problems and for one thing‚ farmers were starting to become a minority within the American society. In the late nineteenth century‚ industrialization was in the spotlight creating big businesses and capitals. The success of industrialization put agriculture
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U.S Constitution DBQ The Federal Government showed to be ineffective under the Articles of Confederation. The Government lacked power‚ with large state governments showing to be superior. The U.S Constitution proposed a new form of government. With the addition of three separate branches of government‚ being‚ legislative‚ executive‚ and judicial‚ the Constitution also created a stronger Federal Government‚ weakening state governments. As southern states with larger populations were against the
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went as far as burning the constitution because it was a ‘pro’-slavery document. The North and the South were divided but they could not let go of each other’s throats. They attempted to compromise to prevent larger conflicts‚ but unfortunately‚ there were various
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