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    Alissa Cooper Period 1 December 20‚ 2010 In a time period where change was inevitable and rapid‚ the revolutionizing image of females as a gender sky rocketed from the events during 1815-1860. The Second Great Awakening embarked on a rebellion against issues that had been overlooked by some‚ and disregarded by others for years. Issues included prison reform‚ the temper cause‚ the crusade to abolish slavery and most significantly‚ the women’s movement. The thing that sparked women’s movement

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    Why did Judge Hall choose John Jameson for Celia’s defense? Given the impact of the slavery issue upon Missouri’s politics at the time‚ the Judge Hall hoped for the trail to be conducted as expeditiously and decorously as possible‚ in a manner that ran the least risk of arousing the ire of either camp. Judge Hall needed a capable attorney‚ one of considerable standing in the community. He needed an attorney with proven political sensibilities‚ one who had not participated significantly in the slavery

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    * Causes of the Civil War Long Term Causes * Social‚ Cultural Divide between North and South * Economic Divide between North and South * Political Divide between North and South: Collapse of Political System: Inability to Compromise * Slavery * Causes of the Civil War: Long Term Causes (from Colonial Times) * 1. Social and Cultural Divide between North and South * North: more urbanized‚ more diverse‚ more developed‚ more advanced infrastructure / transportation

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    Abraham Lincoln Thesis: Abraham Lincoln really is a man that we know so little about how he came to be the president. In the year of 1809 on February 12th‚ a baby boy was born to Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. This boy was Abraham Lincoln after his grandfather who passed away. He was born in a log cabin in Hardin County‚ Kentucky as where his siblings Sarah and Thomas (who died as an infant). “When first my father settled here it was than the frontier line‚ The Panther’s screams filled the night

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    rise between the North and South as the United States expanded westward. With the question of whether new states would allow slavery or not. Southern states would argue for the right to decide their laws concerning slavery. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 attempted to form a balance between free and slave states by restricting slavery to certain territories. However‚ this compromise was only a temporary fix as it wasn’t effective when new territories continued to be added to the Union. A solution to

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    The Market revolution was an economic transformation‚ a scene of the innovation of transportation such as the; steamboat‚ man-made canals‚ railroad and communication such as the telegraph. Steamboats “helped to bring economic development to the trans Appalachian west”‚ up the Erie Canal the world’s largest man-made waterway that connected the region around the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Coast via the Hudson River. The railroads opened vast new areas of the American interior for settlement while

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    period in England as can be seen by her writings. With her knowledge and comprehension of her work in English history‚ she can be undoubtedly qualified as an expert in her field. Understanding the Victorians: Class and Society In 1820‚ Victorian society can be split up into three different classes– upper class (aristocracy and gentry)‚ middle class‚ and working class –they had extremely different lives. In Victorian Britain class is related to‚ but not defined by‚ income‚ which

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    the attempts by Northern antislavery political forces to block the expansion of slavery into the western territories. Southern slave owners held that such a restriction on slavery would violate the principle of states’ rights. Abraham Lincoln won the 1860

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    Why was this "the most profound economic development in mid-nineteenth century America"? 1820s factory system in shoe industry‚ by 1830s spread throughout Northeast. By 1860 value of manufactured goods roughly equal to agricultural goods. Largest manufacturers located in the Northeast‚ large amount of people employed 15 How did technology and industrial ingenuity prepare the

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    The death toll of the Civil War is equal to the Trade Towers event occurring every Tuesday for four years. In the 1820 congress solved a new crisis by admitting Maine to the Union as a free state to balance the admission of Missouri as a slave state. By 1850 the United States was evenly divided with fifteen Free states and fifteen slave states. There are many causes of the Civil War but‚ there are only three main causes. Those three causes are the different economies of the North and South‚ the political

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