The presidential election of 1860‚ followed by secession in the south was a major turning point in American history and was actually the beginning of what came to be known as the Civil War. The year prior to the election‚ John Brown‚ an abolitionist raided Harpers Ferry‚ Virginia‚ trying to get the slaves to stand up to their masters. It was a failed attempt‚ and John Brown got convicted of treason and later on was hanged. Because of this raid‚ the south saw him as a criminal due to the fact that
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The election of 1860 was one of the most controversial times in American history‚ and there were only four main candidates. The candidates included Abraham Lincoln‚ who was a Republican‚ Stephen Douglas and John Breckinridge‚ who were Democrats‚ and John Bell who was a member of the Constitutional Union. All had a disagreement about the topic of slavery‚ which was an important issue in the colonies. Little did they know that this controversial topic would cause states to begin seceding‚ forming another
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expansion known as the Market Revolution‚ there were also geographic‚ demographic‚ and technological involving transportation changes that occurred between 1815 and 1860. These changes impacted the Americans significantly on the way how they viewed themselves and their society. The major characteristics of the National Market Economy of 1860 was that it supplied economic contributions throughout the south‚ west and the Northeast. The Market revolution had benefitted the Americans through all the changes
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In 1860 and 1861 eleven of the southern states declared their secession from the Union creating the Confederate States. This act caused widespread conflict and the Civil War followed quickly after. The Southern states were led to secede from the Union by many different factors‚ including the question of slavery‚ the election of Abraham Lincoln‚ and the “right of self government.” In 1850‚ John C. Calhoun asked the question‚ “What is it that has endangered the Union?” in his speech "The Clay Compromise
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Reconstruction Era The Reconstruction Era of the 1860’s began before and continued well after the Civil War. The plans were designed to bring the union back together. Today some historians argue that reconstruction failed. Lincoln‚ Johnson‚ and the Radical Republicans‚ all had ideas and plans of how they wanted to bring the union back together. They all worked diligently to get their plans‚ laws‚ and proclamations into action. President Abraham Lincoln’s plans consisted of a Proclamation of Amnesty
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The execrable path to freedom It was simply a low wage job‚ cleaning‚ cooking and beckoning to there owners needs. They owned there own property where there families live and attended the local churches every Sunday. With time they had freedom‚ agreements to be released from indentured servants and free with rights. Indentured servants were quite scarce and expensive and the issue of equal rights presented a major challenge to developing slave states like Virginia. Indentured servants slowly became
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Social factors were the most prominent factor to contribute to the changing status of women in Britain in the years 1860-1980 as women had more freedom in exploring different aspects of the society without hesitation and without feeling the upper hand from men. A women had the freedom to wear and behave the way she believed was correct and not necessarily according to how the society would have preferred her to behave. One of the most significant act is the “The Matrimonial Property Act of 1970”
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1820-1 Revolutions: What happened and why did they fail? Neapolitan revolt‚ 1820 Restoration of the Bourbon Monarchy in Naples Ferdinand I and chief minister Luigi de Medici introduced several measures 1818 restored church to a position of power and influence e.g. Censorship Financial difficulty after 1815 and had to pay reparations imposed by Austria for the Austrian army of occupation. Union with Naples in 1815 very unpopular The repeal of the Sicilian-British style constitution
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Otto Von Bismarck and the events of the 1860’s played a very significant role to the unification of Germany by 1871. Some historians dispute upon the concept that Bismarck was solely a “master planner”‚ arguing that he was in fact a pragmatist or an opportunist meaning that he took advantage of the situations around such as the conditions of the countries. Historian Mosse notes that due to the conditions of intentional opposing countries (such as; Russia‚ Britain‚ France and Austria) Bismarck was
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How did the tensions of the 1860s show the human side of the Civil War? Three perspectives of the Civil War were the children‚ African Americans‚ and the medical staff. Most of the effects of the tensions made were not good. One side of the Civil War were the children. Tens of thousands of fathers were killed in the war. This caused many children to become orphans‚ causing the opening of many orphanages all across America. Some children wanted to become soldiers and they would slip through the cracks
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