“Oppressed slaves should flee and take Liberty Line to freedom.” The Underground Railroad began in the 1780s while Harriet Tubman was born six decades later in antebellum America. The Underground Railroad was successful in its quest to free slaves; it even made the South pass two acts in a vain attempt to stop its tracks. Then‚ Harriet Tubman‚ an African-American with an incredulous conviction to lead her people to the light‚ joins the Underground Railroad’s cause becoming one of the leading conductors
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Part I Point Possible: 80 Of the following three questions‚ answer two of your choice. 1. In an 1845 editorial about Texas Annexation‚ newspaper editor John O’Sullivan argued that it was the "manifest design of providence" that the United States occupy all territory in the continent. Manifest Destiny‚ as the concept came to be known‚ swept proponents enthusiastically into its wake and left others concerned about the future. Go to Manifest Destiny (Links to an external site.) at PBS Online. Read its
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providing answers that did not satisfy either one side or both. The early 1800s were full of the North and the South making many attempts at reconciliation that just fell short. Among those were the Missouri Compromise of 1820‚ and the Great Compromise of 1850. Other tempestuous attempts led to the Tariff/Nullification Controversy‚ anti slavery debates in congress‚ and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Whether it was one side or the other‚ there was always someone to oppose - and in some cases‚ defy - the laws put
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American politics‚ they often mention the dominance of the Democratic and Republican Parties or the sharp split between red and blue states. But while it may seem like both of these things have been around forever‚ the situation looked quite different in 1850‚ with the Republican Party not yet existing‚ and support for the dominant Democrats and Whigs cutting across geographic divides. The collapse of this second party system was at the center of the increasing regional tensions that would lead to the
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The Constitution: the Source of Secession The Constitution’s inadequacy in dealing with the issue of slavery ultimately led “the failure of the union that it had created” as it revealed the contrasting American ideals that were held by the North and the South. The Constitution did not provide a clear solution to slavery and left it up to the following generations to decide whether the institution was constitutional. Furthermore‚ it failed to address the issue of sovereignty and whether the states
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Crisis Leading to the civil war there were a plethora of things that impacted the unity of the nation as a whole. Two major events that contributed to this were the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas Nebraska Act. Both of these events changed the relationship of the nation in many ways. The Compromise of 1850 was a compromise that stated California would be admitted as a free state‚ the slave auction would end in Washington D.C‚ settlers of Mexico and Utah would decide whether it would be considered
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Jamar Day July 1‚ 2010 His 2111 Paper Prof McCray By the middle of the nineteenth century‚ the issue of slavery had caused a deep division between North and South. Slavery was an important part of the Southern way of life‚ and slave labor was a major aspect of the Southern states’ economy. Northerners opposed slavery yet were concerned that the political‚ economic‚ and conflict with the South over slavery could threaten a civil war between the two sides. The conflict intensified over the
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Vanessa Bratcher Judy Graves History 358 13 October 2010 Bibliography of Clara Brown During the time of slavery many African Americans suffered from the harsh treatment of their owners. Clara Brown was one of the many slaves that experienced separation from her loved ones‚ forced into labor and abuse. Clara Brown was born into slavery in 1803 in Spotsylvania County‚ Virginia. Brown and her mother were separated from her father when they were bought by tobacco farmer Ambrose Smith. From the
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What events led to the Civil War? During the Revolutionary Era from 1765-1815‚ slavery existed in thirteen colonies. Maryland went from white servants to slaves. There was an agricultural economy that existed in the South that was dependent on the labor of slaves. Although slavery did not exist in the North exclusively; New York‚ Philadelphia‚ and New England were involved in the trade of slaves; so although the South was exclusively using slaves as an economic gain‚ the North also had financial
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the Compromise of 1850 which basically made California free and allowed the people to pick in Utah and New Mexico. This ability of a state to decide whether it would allow slavery was called popular sovereignty. This was controversial because the south thought that any land that was acquired in the war should be slave because of what the Missouri Compromised Act applied but popular sovereignty made the decision. The Fugitive Slave Act was passed as part of the Compromise of 1850. This act forced
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