Chapter 8---Creating a Republican Culture (1790-1820) I. The Capitalist Commonwealth A. Banks‚ Manufacturing‚ and Markets a) Banking and Credit: 1. For merchants‚ farmers‚ and political leaders‚ republicanism meant capitalism. 2. 2nd National Bank was chartered in 1816 for 20 yrs. To finance mercantile enterprises. 3. The Panic of 1819: state banks over-issued notes‚ sparked by a sharp drop in world agricultural prices Business cycle—the periodic expansion and contraction of profits
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The Civil war was inevitable if the conflict between the south and the north‚ slavery and politics were resolved. After independence‚ the differences and complexity of America sharpened increasing slavery. The complexities in terms of the migration of the whites and black slaves and shift from small scale farming to large scale farming made civil war inevitable. There were many differences between the north and south. The north preferred city life while the south was keen to plantation life. The
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Contrasting the North and South The North and South are both different‚ but they both have great strengths and weaknesses. The Civil War was started by The Kansas-Nebraska act. When Kansas got the right to vote‚ residents from Missouri crossed over the Kansas border to vote so that Kansas would become a slave state. Missouri wanted to make Kansas a slave state. “On July 21‚ 1861‚ the first battle of the civil war” (American Odyssey) broke out because of the feud between Kansas and Missouri. The
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On July 21‚ 1861 a four year war between the Northern and Southern United States began when the Confederate army invaded Fort Sumpter. However‚ this was not the beginning of Political differences between the Northern and Southern territories of the United States in a country doomed for Civil War. The election of 1860 was the first year the Republican Party ran against the Democratic Party for President. This was significant because the Republican Party was against slavery‚ and the Republican representative
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Did you know Harriet Tubman escaped slavery 19 times without getting caught? Harriet (whose real name was Araminta Ross) escaped slavery so she can be an abolitionist before the American Civil War. Harriet was not just known for rescuing slaves either. She was also a nurse in the Union army‚ a cook‚ scout‚ and a spy. Harriet got married to a free black man in 1844. His name was John Tubman but then Harriet left him in 1849 or 1851(according to 2 resources) in fear of being sold. Harriet
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Harriet Tubman -Born a slave A lifeline for slaves!Harriet Tubman was born a slave on a plantation in Maryland in 1820 or 1821.Her birth name was was Araminta Ross. Harriet Tubman was a very important person in the history of slavery.Born a slave herself‚She became a “conductor”of the Underground Railroad and succeeded in leading other slaves to freedom. Life as a slave was difficult.Harriet worked a number of jobs on the plantation. Jobs such as plowing fields and leading produce into wagons
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Historians have traditionally regarded the series of seven debates between Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Illinois state election campaign as among the most significant statements in American political history. Douglas‚ the North’s most prominent Democratic leader‚ faced against Lincoln who represented the Republican. Douglas was seeking reelection to a third term in the U.S. Senate. The debates held in seven Illinois towns and attended by tens of thousands of listeners.
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Was the war against the United States and Mexico necessary? “The war is waged against an unoffending people‚ without just or adequate cause‚ for the purposes of conquest; with the design to extend slavery; in violation of the Constitution‚ against the dictates of justice‚ of humanity‚ the sentiments of age in which we live‚ and the precepts of the religion we profess.” The war between the United States and Mexico had a lot of conflict between each other‚ and their tensions evolved over time. Although
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Between the years of 1830 and 1840 the two main competing political parties in America were the Jacksonian Democratic Party and the Whig Party. These two parties did not only vary in their ideology‚ but also in the region of America where they were strongest. The Whigs were mostly in the north and supported far different ideas regarding the social‚ and economic build of the country‚ and western expansion‚ than their southern counterparts‚ the Democrats. Regarding social reform‚ the Whigs tended
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The Civil War that raged across America from 1861-1865 was the result of a gradual polarization of the nation. Even though the North and the South were part of the same country‚ the societies‚ economies‚ and geography made it so that they were like two different nations. One of the things that shaped every aspect of life was the geography. The fertile soil and warm climate of the South made it ideal to plant crops like tobacco‚ cotton‚ rice‚ and indigo. Because farm work was so profitable to the
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