Print Cite In 1803‚ President Thomas Jefferson purchased the territory of Louisiana from the French government for $15 million. The Louisiana Purchase stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to New Orleans‚ and it doubled the size of the United States. To Jefferson‚ westward expansion was the key to the nation’s health: He believed that a republic depended
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• Harriet Beecher Stowe was infuriated when she heard that the Compromise of 1850 would help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves. • She began to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin to express her beliefs on the law and how slavery wasn’t justified. The Fugitive Slave Act: • The law that allowed suspected runaway slaves to be recaptured was called the Fugitive Slave Act. The people accused of being runaways had little hope. The person to rule them as free was a commissioner who would profit more by turning
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competition between the North and the South over the rights of slavery. Begins with the Louisiana Purchase‚ followed by the acquirement of the western regions. Due to these expansions‚ the issue of slavery rose every time and temporarily settled by the compromises. However‚ conflict over slavery gradually intensified‚ strengthening the northern and the southern causes. Some historians argue that slavery was the primary cause of the American Civil War. I believe this statement is half true but half false.
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Lincoln Douglas Debates of 1858 The main causes of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 were great in number. The first was Abraham Lincoln claiming that Douglas was encouraging fears of amalgation of the races with enough success to drive thousands of people away from the Republican Party. The second was that Stephen A. Douglas was claiming that Lincoln was an abolitionist for saying that the American Declaration of Independence applied‚ in fact‚ to both blacks and whites. The third cause was
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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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Abstract This paper explores the term coined by James G. Randall on 1940 “Blundering Generation”‚ which encompasses the “real” reasons that lead to the Civil War and blames the political leaders of the Era‚ the mistakes they made‚ their inability to compromise‚ and the way the Civil War was actually‚ and probably still is‚ romanticized (The Blundering Generation Revisited). Throughout the essay‚ I will analyze some of the events that justify Randall’s term‚ showing some key moments when politicians from
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1860‚ the Civil War broke out‚ ultimately because of economic‚ political and social aspects of westward expansion. Therefore‚ westward expansion caused the Civil War. The Western Frontier was seen as a profitable enterprise by many people in the 1850s. In Ripon‚ Wisconsin in 1854‚ the Republican Party was formed with contrasting views to other political parties; they wanted no slavery in any territory purely because the Republicans wanted the west to be open only to free white labor. The Republican
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to end the practice in one fell swoop. Missouri compromise: Unable to stop the spread of slavery altogether‚ abolitionists at least were able to restrict its spread. Mexican War: A setback for the anti-slavery forces‚ as slavery was permitted in the newly absorbed territories‚ which lay below the line set in the Missouri Compromise. This helped galvanize both sides‚ beginning a process that would make war inevitable. Compromise of 1850. An attempt to deal with some of the slavery related
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Henry Clay was a great man and I believe that he stood head-and-shoulders above the rest of the presidents of the 1850’s. He was a great man who was secretary of state under John Quincy Adams and an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency in 1824‚ 1832‚ and 1844. He was one of the most popular and influential political leaders in American history. His genius in the art of compromise three times resolved bitter political conflicts that threatened to tear the nation apart‚ winning him the title "The
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