war started. One of them was “The Election Of 1860” there was 4 candidates lincoln‚ douglas‚ breckinridge‚ and john bell. Abraham lincoln won the election‚ the south thought that lincoln was anti-slavery. The south was heated‚ and they were mad at the north. Another reason why the civil war started was “The Dred Scott Decision”. The people up north were frustrated because a slave from missouri owner took him to the north of the missouri compromise line in 1834. Then the people in the north had
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the discounted groups and activists in an effort to change political policy while bringing public awareness to the issue through protests‚ media‚ amended legislature‚ etc. The social reform movements from 1820-1860 were characterized by unyielding perfectionism‚ impatience with compromise‚ and distrust with established social institutions. These qualities explain the degree of success or failure of these movements in achieving their objectives. While many people say the women’s rights movement was
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Aisha Rapant DBQ Essay The period of time between 1800 and 1860 contains contrasts depending on place in America. Between the North and South lay differences in economic and political factors. This Antebellum period was one that caused disagreements over how best to help the economy‚ the extension of slavery‚ and relationship between states and
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looked to the Constitution and what the Founding Fathers explicitly stated for guidance on the matter. Pro and anti-slavery supporters debated over the Founding Fathers’ intentions regarding slavery and its expansion. The Republican Party Platform of 1860 opposed the expansion of slavery into the West and was against the reopening of the slave trade. “That the maintenance of the principles promulgated in the Declaration of Independence and embodied in the Federal Constitution‚ “That all men are created
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Positions hardened as Republicans asserted the sanctity of majority rule‚ slaveholders saw a growing threat to their way of life‚ and everything that they had built off this system of slavery. Abraham Lincoln’s election to the Presidency in 1860 on a platform of preventing the continuation slavery to the States propelled them of the Deep South to secede from the Union and form a new confederacy for the defense of slavery. And way of
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The Union Dissolves What events led the United States into civil war? There are many factors that lead into the beginning of the Civil War‚ but most of the disagreements arose from one problem: slavery. During this time‚ the nation was split into two: half of which supported slavery‚ and the other strongly against it. The Northerners were strongly against slavery while the Southerners supported it. Not only are there many causes of the Civil War; there were also many effects that emerged from the
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the Whig party and destroying the two national party system and later on in the 1860s it caused the biggest war that the United States has gone through. The union was divided in two groups of people the ones that were trying to abolish slavery were the ones that were loyal to the union and the ones that were against the Union the ones that create a confederacy. The government was going to propose the Crittenden Compromise
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MID-TERM EXAM 1. Do you think most American believe in the ideas of Hobbes or Locke? What institutions or laws in this country back up your choice? I think most American believe in the ideas of Locke. In fact‚ the Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson back up my choice. The American vision of natural rights and individual sovereignty was written on the basis of Locke’s ideas. The main point is Locke believes that man is basically good‚ but society makes him evil. Locke therefore
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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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the anti-federalist party that eventually became Andrew Jacksons democratic party going up against the Whigs. Instead it being Democrats vs Whigs it was North vs South. Neither side could agree on anything to the point that neither side like the compromises that they were given. The Hamiltonian system created by the federalist Alexander Hamilton caused problems with the Jeffersonian Republicans. Jefferson and Madison disagree with Hamilton’s list because they thought his views were pro-British. Jefferson
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