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    slavery due to the Missouri Compromise of 1820. This‚ in turn‚ caused representatives in Congress to have no interest in creating a Nebraska territory. Senator Stephen A. Douglas was the driving factor behind the Kansas-Nebraska Act. With the goal in mind that Nebraska would become a territory‚ the Kansas- Nebraska Act would allow each territory the ability to choose whether or not they supported slavery. With this being enacted‚ it was a direct violation of the Missouri Compromise. The bill that allowed

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    For test five be sure to know about: 1. Lucy Stone 2. Abby Kelley 3. Elizabeth Cady Stanton 4. Lucretia Mott 5. Angelina Grimké 6. Reform communities 7. Shakers 8. New Harmony 9. The American Temperance Society 10. Institution building 11. Jails 12. Poorhouses 13. Asylums 14. Orphanages 15. What the proliferation of new institutions during the antebellum era demonstrated 16. Horace Mann 17. Public schools 18. The American Colonization Society 19. Liberia 20. An Appeal

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    Stephen Douglas was born in Vermont. He received a basic education. At age 20 he moved to Illinois‚ this became his home state for the rest of his life. Douglas began practicing law in 1834‚ followed quickly by political ventures‚ including the office of Illinois attorney general. In 1840‚ Douglas became Illinois secretary of state‚ then served as a judge on the state supreme court from 1841 to 1843. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1843 and to the Senate in 1847. Douglas played

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    Top 10 List loaded with content and previous DBQ topics Highly recommended that you know everything on these lists for the AP History test! Top 10 List: Colonization through the Civil War Top 10: Colonial Differences – NE (Mass.)‚ Middle (Penn.)‚ South/Chesapeake (Virginia) 1. NE – Religion played a much greater role than in the South – Puritans (Mass. Bay colony)‚ Pilgrims/Separatists (Plymouth) – most southerners were Anglican but there were few churches as people were more spread out

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    rights. Although slavery had died out in the North and was also fading in the border states and urban areas‚ it was expanding in highly profitable cotton-growing areas of the South. Politicians tried to resolve this crisis with a series of national compromises that only increased the conflict. This led to the rise of the new

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    The American Civil War: Causes‚ Victor‚ and Validity Keagan Koerber History 205 Professor Childress December 9‚ 2014 The slightest mention of the American Civil War is enough to bring graphic and often horrifying images into one’s head: mountains of dead soldiers‚ amputations without anesthesia‚ and diseases running rampant. The Civil War was a war that no one wished for‚ it resulted in the deaths of several hundred thousand American lives‚ but it is often justified by its end result

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    percentage they appealed to was the upper-class‚ those with positions of power or large amounts of land‚ they often won votes through the power of the supporters they had. The demise of the Whig party became apparent when they were divided The Compromise of 1850 separated members of the party behind pro- and anti- slavery lines. Another reason that the Whig party failed was because of the creation of the Republican Party. When the Republican Party was created‚

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    Europe came to the North and fueled the labor supply. The large amounts of money to be made in cotton had important effects on the South. By the 1830s‚ cotton was the major cash crop in Alabama‚ Mississippi‚ Louisiana‚ Georgia‚ and Texas. By the 1850s‚ cotton was king in the South. The southern cotton crops were important to the entire nation. This was only possible through slave labor. The textile industry in the New England states developed rapidly because the South could supply it with more cotton

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    Manifest Destiny The expansion of the United States from its thirteen original colonies to the nation it is today was a very extensive process‚ involving numerous wars and treaties. The greatest one of these expansion periods occurred from the 1830s to the 1860s‚ largely due to the idea of Manifest Destiny‚ the belief that American settlers were destined to expand across the continent to the Pacific coast. This development played a major role in dividing the North and the South by contributing

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    John C. Calhoun was born in Abbeville‚ South Carolina on March 18th‚ 1782 and he supported his family whenever his father was ill when he was still a child. In 1807‚ John became a lawyer and was soon elected to congress in 1810 where he was openly a “war hawk” or someone who wanted to go to war with Great Britain for independence‚ and in 1812 he got his wish when the war of 1812 began. During the war‚ he raised troops so that he could support congress which made him a nationalist and he fought for

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