other jobs. The South especially needed more slaves at this time because they were now growing more cotton then ever because of the invention of the cotton gin. Cotton production with slaves jumped from 178‚000 bales in 1810 to over 3‚841‚000 bales in 1860. Within that time period of 50 years the number of slaves also rose from about 1‚190‚000 to over 4‚000‚000. The plantation owners in the South could not understand why the North wanted slavery abolished that bad. Southerners compared it with the wage-slave
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became one of the biggest issues between the North and the South because the North abolished slavery by 1860 while the South refused to give up the only thing that was keeping them stable. When the issue of Western territories came into question‚ the North didn’t want slavery to extend into the West but the Union therefore created several compromises such as the Missouri Compromise‚ the Compromise of 1850‚ and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Anti-slavery in the North became stronger when abolitionist movements
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economic and social issues. By the year of 1860‚ the North and the South was developed into extremely different sections. There was opposing social‚ economic‚ and political points of view‚ starting back into colonial periods‚ and it slowly drove the two regions farther in separate directions. The two sections tried to force its point of view on the nation as a whole. Even though negotiations had kept the Union together for many years‚ in 1860 the condition was unstable. The presidential election
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In the mid nineteenth century‚ sectionalism was increasing‚ drawing further tension between the north and the south. The Civil War was approaching‚ as disagreement occurred in the newly occupied territories in the west over slavery law. In 1860‚ Abraham Lincoln won the election and became president. Lincoln campaigned with a stance that would not allow slavery in the west‚ but would not remove slave state’s pre-existing laws. Many southern slave states believed the government was pro-north and did
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the top disagreement between the two‚ other conflicts arose; such as‚ ideals between abolitionist and southern politicians. Historical events‚ taking place in order to establish the chain reaction that lead to the Civil War; such as‚ The election of 1860‚ Raid on Harper’s Ferry‚ Bleeding Kansas‚ Dred Scott Decision‚ and The Kansas-Nebraska Act. Irrepressible conflict quickly appeared over the disagreeing ideals of how these two co-existing economies could not become one. Irrepressible conflict was
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In the 1860s the economy and Americans were moving westward and slavery was dragging along with the expansion. The underlying problem of slavery in the new states would be temporarily fixed with government documentation such as the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850. The north and the south had quickly begun to bicker and debate the idea of slavery on new land. Normal citizens like Abraham Lincoln and others had picked up the topic of slavery and studied it and became politicians. Abraham
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1820 The Compromise in Missouri. In 1803‚ the Congress was obliged to come up with a policy to give way to the growth of slavery in the western region. Missouri’s request for statehood as a slave state sparked an unpleasant countrywide discussion. The Congress reached a succession of agreements that became known as the Missouri Compromise. Missouri was acknowledged as a slave state and Maine was acknowledged as a free state
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* Lecompton Constitution‚ 1857 * "Popular Sovereignty" * Lincoln-Douglass Debates‚ 1858 * Lincoln’s "House Divided" Speech‚ 1858 * Freeport Doctrine‚ 1858 * PresidentialElectionof1860 * Crittenden Compromise‚ 1860 * Secession. 1860 | Part I. * Shay’s Rebellion‚ 1786 * Northwest Ordinance‚ 1787 * Whiskey Rebellion‚ 1794 * Alien and Sedition Acts‚ 1798 * Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions‚ 1798-99 * The Louisiana Purchase‚ 1803
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before the Civil War broke out in America. Many people think that the Kansas-Nebraska Act was one stepping stone that led to the war. The Kansas-Nebraska Act directly opposed the Missouri Compromise(“Kansas-Nebraska Act”). The Missouri Compromise created a balance between the North and the South. The Missouri Compromise stated
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the following: With the upset in balance of the Mexican War‚ antislavery activists were upset about any potential compromise while with the Kansas-Nebraska act‚ they settled with the idea of them being in a state of popular sovereignty. The acquisitions of the Mexican War triggered an upset in the balance of free and slave states. The solution of extending the Missouri Compromise line of 3630’ angered both proslavery and antislavery activists. It upset the proslavery activists because it conceded
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