In the year 1820‚ congress passed a law called the “Missouri Compromise”. This law stated: any state below the border of Missouri that wanted to join the Union would be a slave state‚ and any state above the Missouri border would be a free state. The law also allowed anyone to cross either side of the border to capture African Americans and sell them back into slavery. When the Missouri Compromise was passed‚there were three states above the border that were already slave states‚ and the law allowed
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Constitution‚ Roger Sherman proposed a compromise known as “The Great Compromise”. This compromise included a clause called the “Three-Fifths Compromise”‚ which created a method to account for the population of slaves when deciding the number of representatives in the House of Representatives. The Constitution states that the number of
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of 1820 to 1854‚ major arguments and political actions maintained continuity by maintaining a political strategy of compromise in order to preserve peace and the union as seen in the Kansas Nebraska Act and the Missouri Compromise. But the political actions taken in these two compromises fostered a significant amount of change rather than continuity. Although the Missouri Compromise seemed to settle the big issue by the time of the Kansas Nebraska Act came along the conflict had escalated beyond what
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DBQ: Fascism After World War I and the Great Depression‚ why did some European contries turn toward fascism while other European countries stayed democratic? After World War I‚ Europe struggles to return to peace and stability. Many new democratic governments fell apart under the attack of the Great Depression. As a result‚ new totalitarian regimes emerged such as Fascism and Communism. Totalitarian is a relating system of governments that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete
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The intent of the Missouri Compromise was to solve the problem of unequal representation between slave and free states in the Union and‚ hopefully‚ bring peace between the North and South. In 1818‚ Missouri requested to join the Union as a slave state. Louisiana had already been admitted as a slave state. Congress was concerned that adding another slave state would upset the balance between the number of free and slave states. James Tallmadge of New York proposed an amendment that would require
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The green revolution was the worlds introduction to modern agricultural and a time of vast improvements in the worlds fight in hunger. New technologies such as hi yield variety seeds Chemical fertilizer and agricultural machinery lid this revolution and are still a big part of the way we produce food for the world we live in today. The green revolution saved A lot of small developing countries throughout the world. Food is now a mass produced all around the world in fields and distributed to countries
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The Missouri Compromise of 1820 In November of 1818‚ Missouri petitioned Congress for statehood and ignited a controversy over slavery and a balance of power in the Senate that would span two sessions of Congress and threaten the dissolution of the Union and a civil war. Prior to the Missouri question‚ the Union had eleven Free states and eleven slave states‚ each with two Senators. The Missouri Territory‚ carved out of land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase in 1803‚ covered an expanse of land
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The printing press was transformed by Johann Gutenberg‚ a German goldsmith‚ and more than 8 million books were printed in Western Europe between 1456 and 1500. This invention had an effect with the Protestant Reformation. It not only furthered the knowledge of geography‚ but it also expanded knowledge throughout the countries and whether you were wealthy or poor‚ printing made books available to the general public. By 1560‚ many people were either Catholic‚ Protestant‚ or mixed (Doc. 5). Non-Catholic
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1. This document was written between the years of 1796 to 1809‚ during which Napoleon Bonaparte was the military commander gaining popularity. The document starts in 1796 when Napoleon was a commander of the army‚ he began explaining with the conditions that they were fighting in and talks about wanting a change‚ and the document ends in the year 1809‚ with Napoleon explaining his strategies to make his army look larger than what it was (SWT‚ 117&119). 2. This document has four different parts to
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During 1790-1860‚ there were many reformations taking place and many events that lead up to the reformation of this very inexperienced country‚ of America. All these events effected the United States different ways and caused many grievances for the young people living in America. In 1790 we firmly incorporated the first American cotton mill which led to the economic augmentation of the United States. In 1791 we established the Capital of the United States in Washington D.C.‚ and Alexander Hamilton
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