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    was slavery through people’s reactions and actions to the Compromise of 1850‚ John Brown’s raid on Harper Ferry‚ and the expansion to the west. The compromise of 1850 was the first reason the Civil War was caused. The Compromise of 1850 was a solution to California’s wanting to enter the union and ended up upsetting the balance between slave and free states. On the website American Historama it says “The Compromise of 1850 was an attempt to smooth out the confrontation between the slave

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    |Name |Justice Gray | |MLA Citation |Obama‚ Barack. "American Rhetoric: Barack Obama -- Speech to the Nation on Passage of New Health Care Reform Bill ." American Rhetoric: | | |The Power of Oratory in the United States. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 30 Sept. 2011. | | |.

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    DBQ: Political Disputes: 1820-1860 Political Disputes use to be handled out calmly‚ but as the years went by‚ people from both the North and the South had political disputes as well as personal disputes (physical arguments). In the time period of the Missouri Compromise‚ (In 1820)‚ political and personal disputes began to rise in both the North and South. Disagreements use to be settled out very calmly‚ but soon disagreements became out of hand. The North and South had personal disputes. In

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    Chapter 13An American Renaissance: Religion‚ Romanticism‚ and Reform Rational religion 1. The concept of mission in the American character 2. The development of deism 1. Roots in rationalism and Calvinism 2. Nature of the beliefs 3. The development of Unitarianism 3. Nature of the beliefs 4. Role of William Ellery Channing 5. Creation of American Unitarian Association 4. The development of Universalism 6. Role of John Murray

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    Compromise of 1850 Chris Owens 13404 The Compromise of 1850 is one of the most important compromises in this history of the United States‚ maybe even the world. The Compromise of 1850 is made up of five bills passed in the United States of America in September 1850‚ and it terminated a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the south and the free states of the north concerning the position of territories gained during the time of the Mexican-American war which was

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    Reform movements are a key characteristic in the antebellum period. Many groups sought to reform and uplift society in many ways‚ with many ideals in mind. Most of the antebellum reform movements reflected primarily democratic ideals. This was true through the many democratic based reforms between 1825 and 1850. One powerful and widespread movement in early America is the fight for women’s rights. This view of the women’s role was very similar to that of black slaves. Taken more serious was that

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    Between 1750 and 1850 was really the age of revolutions. Including the big changes in political revolutions like the American and the French Revolutions‚ there were changes in land use for agriculture‚ transportation and also warfare....also known as Industrial Revolution...this had revolutionary changes in the economic system and global balance of power. Revolutions have seen most of the world within a deep interconnected economic system. To begin between 1750 and 1850‚ most European colonies became

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    Furtive Slave Act of 1850. Stating runaway slave were to be returned to their masters‚ even if captured in free states. With this the northern states felt the federal government was robbing them to regulate slavery in their own district. Consequently‚ with tensions building on both sides John C.

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    Compromise of 1820‚ the Compromise of 1850‚ and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was an effort to conserve a balance of power between the slaveholding states and free states‚ by the U.S Senate and the House of Reps. The slaveholding states feared of being outnumbered in the Congressional Representation. They feared because they would lack the power to protect their interest in property and trade. After much debate the law passed the Senate on March 2nd‚ 1820 and passed

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    Wilmot Proviso/Compromise of 1850 The Wilmot Proviso came about when President Polk asked Congress for $2 million dollars‚ during the Mexican War‚ in an attempt to buy peace with Mexico. This Proviso named after its sponsor David Wilmot‚ an antislavery Democrat from Pennsylvania‚ was an attempt by opponents of slavery to prevent slaves to be introduction into the newly purchased territories from Mexico after the war. The proviso passed the House but not the Senate due to the Southern take on

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