THE PROBLEMS ------------- The islands of the British West Indies saw foreign competition from the slave grown sugar of Louisiana and Cuba. However‚ by the 1860’s‚ due to a loan from the British government‚ Trinidad‚ Antigua‚ Barbados‚ British Guiana and St. Kitts all survived the equalization crisis. The sugar industry in Jamaica‚ on the other hand‚ continued to deteriorate. Jamaica’s figures show a sugar industry‚ which failed to survive. Below is proof of this failure and decrease in sugar
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sovereignty‚ the idea that issues should be decided upon by the people (specifically‚ it applied to slavery‚ stating that the people in the territories should decide to legalize it or not). It was good (and liked by politicians) because it was a compromise between the extremes of the North and the South‚ and it stuck with the idea of self-determination‚ but it could spread slavery. II. Political Triumphs for General Taylor The Whigs nominated General Zachary Taylor‚ the hero of Buena Vista
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Wilmot Proviso make slavery a politically huge discussion‚ but it also was a step towards the Compromise of 1850. Lastly‚ the Wilmot Proviso caused the tension between the North and the South to increase‚ because the South depended on slavery the Proviso would prohibit slavery to expand to the newly gained territories‚ resulting in much more power for the North. Henry Clay‚ John C. Calhoun‚ and Daniel Webster were the Big 3 Statesmen. Slavery
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John C. Calhoun John Caldwell Calhoun was born on March 18‚ 1782 in Abbeville‚ South Carolina. He was a prominent United States statesman and spokesman for the slave-plantation system of the antebellum South. He was a nationalist at the beginning of his political career. He was a congressman from South Carolina. As one of the leading War Hawks‚ he helped steer the United States into war with Great Britain in 1812. Calhoun was responsible for establishing the Second Bank of the United States
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Chapter 18 1. In order to maintain the two great political parties as vital bonds of national unity‚ early nineteenth century politicians avoided public discussion of slavery 2. The US’s victory in the Mexican War resulted in renewed controversy over the issue of extending slavery into the territories‚ a possible split in the Whig and Democrat parties over slavery‚ the cession by Mexico of an enormous amount of land to the US‚ and a rush of settlers to new American territory in California
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freedom‚ inflaming the North with righteous anger and enraging the South over the North’s perceived theft. Californian demands for admission as a free state alarmed the South‚ which called for a convention in 1850 to decide whether or not to secede. Henry Clay‚ John C. Calhoun‚ and and Daniel Webster
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*** Prompts have 2 parts: a major part and a minor part (address both for a complete assessment of the DBQ) Major: Main reason for not making moral progress is Strict Construction of Constitution Minor: Political Parties (partisanship) Southern Democrats (Calhoun‚ Jefferson‚ Jackson‚ Douglas) against prohibition‚ Abolitionism/Feminism‚ Socialism (Democrats generally either against moral reforms‚ or neutral. Neutral is ok on a state level) Whigs: Generally for reform New England Puritan based party
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prices. * Congress passed the Tariff of 1816 in order to protect the American manufacturers. * 1798-Eli Whitney came up with the idea of machines making each part of the musket so that every part of the musket would be the same. * By 1850-the principle of interchangeable parts caught on and it became the basis for mass-production. * Elias Howe- invented the sewing machine in 1846. * The sewing machine gave a boost to northern industrialization. * Became the foundation of
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Unit 5 Diane Arias PI: Panic of 1857: broke out due to California gold inflating the currency and over-speculation in land and railroads. Two groups opposed the idea: Eastern industrialists feared that the free land would drain its supply of workers and the South feared that the West would fill up with free-soilers who would form anti-slavery states‚ unbalancing the Senate even more. The Tariff of 1857 lowered duties to about 20%. North blamed it for causing the panic‚ because they felt they needed
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John Caldwell Calhoun was born the 4th child‚ and 3rd son‚ of Patrick and Martha Calhoun on March 18‚ 1782 in the backwoods of Abbeville‚ South Carolina. His father got really sick when he was just 17 years old. He was forced to quit school and work on the family farm. Eventually though with help from his brothers‚ he returned to school. He graduated with a degree from Yale College‚ Phi Beta Kappa‚ in 1804. After studying law at the Tapping Reeve Law School in Litchfield‚ Connecticut‚ he was admitted
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