After America gained independence from Britain‚ an urge for change swept over the new nation; most notably through industrialization‚ sectionalism‚ and urbanization. In Charles Peale’s The Exhumation of the Mastodon‚ industrialization is represented in the discovery of this new animal. This painting pictures a storm in the background‚ which represents the industrial revolution coming. The painting also shows how people were exploring nature and trying to solve the mystery behind it. Finally‚ the
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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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Virginia around 1800. Scott and his family were slaves owned by Peter Blow and his family. He moved to St. Louis with them in 1830 and was sold to John Emerson‚ a military doctor. They went to Illinois and the Wisconsin territory where the Missouri Compromise of 1820 prohibited slavery. Dred Scott married and had two daughters. John Emerson married Irene Sanford. In 1842‚ they all returned to St. Louis‚ Missouri. John Emerson died the next year. In 1846‚ Scotts sued Irene Emerson for their freedom
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state or a slave state. He also included repealing the Missouri Compromise which stated that: "Missouri could come into the union with Slavery‚ but that in all the remaining part of the territory purchased of France‚ which lies north of 36 degrees and 30 minutes north latitude‚ slavery should never be permitted". Democrats and Whigs fought for the chance of having a northern slave state. The North became enraged that the Missouri Compromise had been tampered with. This caused more tension between the
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masters. This enraged slaveholders‚ so they took action. As a result in 1850‚ the Fugitive Slave Act was put into place. Bleeding Kansas is the period of violence during the settling of Kansas. The Kansas-Nebraska Act nullified the Missouri compromise and instead used popular sovereignty. Free-state and proslavery settlers rushed into Kansas hoping to influence their opinions and ideas into the state’s decision. Soon violence attacks started to occur. Including John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry
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Dred Scott vs. Sanford 1857 Born a slave to the Peter Blow family in 1799 Virginia‚ Dred Scott makes an action that is now considered a pivotal moment in early American history and the worst Supreme Court decision in American history‚ as he plans to sue his slave owner for his freedom. Growing up on the Blow farm‚ Dred Scott never learned to read or write‚ and he spent his whole life without this knowledge. In 1820 a law is passed‚ along with the annexation of Missouri as a slave state
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voted for the Kansas-Nebraska Act (splitting the territory into two areas) assumed that Kansas would enter the union as a slave state. The Republican Party‚ however‚ wanted to repeal the Kansas-Nebraska Act and restore the provision in the Missouri Compromise that prohibited
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the course of history was the direct result of the Kansas Nebraska act i.e. Bleeding Kansas. The Kansas Nebraska act allowed for new territories to decide if they were a free or a slave sate by popular sovereignty. It undid the compromise that was made in Missouri compromise‚ which designated a line of latitude to be the separation of free and slave states. The Kansas Nebraska act re ignited the differences between pro and anti-slavery sections. Violent events and fighting had become so terrible that
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Chloé Boury 10.11.14 Mr. Ellinghaus SST 9C Slavery and Sectional differences in the 19th century In the beginning of the 19th century‚ sectionalism in the United States referred to the different political values‚ customs‚ and lifestyles of the North and South in the United States. The north believed in industrialization and trade whilst the south was based on agriculture and slavery. Northerners tried to abolish slavery whilst the south tried to expand the slave states to improve the agriculture
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