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    economic and social issues. By the year of 1860‚ the North and the South was developed into extremely different sections. There was opposing social‚ economic‚ and political points of view‚ starting back into colonial periods‚ and it slowly drove the two regions farther in separate directions. The two sections tried to force its point of view on the nation as a whole. Even though negotiations had kept the Union together for many years‚ in 1860 the condition was unstable. The presidential election

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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 way the Southerners reacted to the Wilmot Proviso was that they were mad because the government was taking what Southerners thought was their property. 3. What was Stephen A. Douglas’s role in passing the compromise of 1850? Stephen A. Douglas’s role in passing the compromise of 1850 was he was trying to make it a law. The Crisis Deepens 4. How did the northerners react to the fugitive slave act? The way that the northerners reacted to the fugitive slave act was that they thought

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    These factors affected the people of America tremendously due to slavery and racial segregation. Three significant factors that led the eleven southern states to secede from the Union were abolitionists (Doc. 5)‚ Kansa-Nebraska Act‚ and the election of 1860 (Doc. 1). During the period of slave existence‚ abolitionists began to rebel against the situation (Doc. 5). Abolitionists were people who were against slavery and would take action by doing something in their own way. One of the most known abolitionists

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    these vast new territories. The map explains how much land was acquired and the spread of slavery throughout the years of 1790 to 1860. The Missouri compromise admitting Missouri into the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state‚ but also stating slavery would be prohibited anywhere north of the southern boundary of Missouri in the future. The Missouri compromise had initially handled the status of slavery before 1846‚ from the procurement of the Louisiana purchase‚ which was the first large

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    Political compromise in the later years of the Ante-Bellum Period‚ specifically from 1820-1861‚ are crucial when speaking in terms of causes of the Civil War. Though the government and politics of such tried fiercly to reduce sectionalist tensions‚ in the end they were unsuccessful. Out of all the reasons- political and not- the four things within those years that strike most as failures of the government are the Missouri Compromise of 1820‚ the Wilmot Proviso of 1848‚ the Kansas-Nebraska Act of

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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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    impact on all politics through the events it created. Some such events are the Compromise of 1850‚ the Election 1852‚ the Kansas-Nebraska Act‚ the Lincoln-Douglass Debates‚ and the Election of 1860. The impacts of these events were great on the political parties of the Whigs‚ Republicans and Free-Soilers. The greatest impact of slavery on the Whigs party took place on the last few years of its existence. The Compromise of 1850‚ which was the solution to the conflict of having California being accepted

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    north’s society evolved as people of different cultures and classed had to work together‚ while the south continued to hold on to an antiquated social order. This difference between the norths would cause problems in the future. The Missouri Compromise passed in 1820 that passed a rule that prohibited slavery in states from the former Louisiana Purchase and Main. Leaving Missouri and west of it slave states. Which later on the Southern believed that slavery would be under attack and began to

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    * Lecompton Constitution‚ 1857 * "Popular Sovereignty" * Lincoln-Douglass Debates‚ 1858 * Lincoln’s "House Divided" 
Speech‚ 1858 * Freeport Doctrine‚ 1858 * PresidentialElectionof1860 * Crittenden Compromise1860 * Secession. 1860 | Part I. * Shay’s Rebellion‚ 1786 * Northwest Ordinance‚ 1787 * Whiskey Rebellion‚ 1794 * Alien and Sedition Acts‚ 1798 * Virginia and Kentucky 
Resolutions‚ 1798-99 * The Louisiana Purchase‚ 1803

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