North and South had contained their differences over slavery for sixty years after the Constitutional Convention. Compromise in 1787 had resolved the questions of slave trade and how to count slaves for congressional representation. The Compromise of 1850 was the last attempt to keep slavery out of politics‚ but the compromise only delayed more serious conflict. Lincoln’s election of 1860 was possibly the greatest sectional divider. The American nation‚ he said‚ was in a crisis and building toward
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the Confederacy‚ the Civil War was inevitable. During the latter part of the antebellum era‚ reforms such as the Compromise of 1850‚ the Fugitive Slave Act‚ and the Kansas-Nebraska Act fostered both immediate and long term changes to the lives of African Americans‚ returning free African Americans to their lives of slavery and forcing them to flee to Canada; however‚ the Missouri Compromise maintained
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stand.” The issue of slavery was one of such magnitude that division on such an issue would inevitably lead to a war‚ and could not have been avoided by compromise. With the Missouri Compromise initially dividing the country and the debate over slavery stretching on for over half a century the issue consumed the nation. After many failed compromise attempts‚ and vicious attacks of North on South and vise versa on a national and personal level‚ the government soon realized that war was imminent.
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North vs. South debate on slavery. He was afraid the nation would be divided. Douglas felt that the population of a state should decide if it has slavery or not. This is called popular sovereignty. Stephen helped Henry Clay pass the Compromise of 1850. The Compromise admitted California as a Free State and gave Utah and New Mexico popular sovereignty. Douglas also had other thoughts on his mind. “In 1854‚ Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois saw an opportunity to run for the presidency‚ and he wanted
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which was the Civil War. It wasn’t just mainly on slaves‚ but the economics of cash crops and politics between parties. Only because technology was advancing not just in agriculture‚ but because weaponry was advancing in rifles quicker. The election of 1860 will provide what were the causes before it‚ what or why the Civil War happened‚ and the long-term effects of the War. Nearly all the North and South were developing in either technology or agriculture. Transcendentalism has become the biggest thing
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end. These different efforts against anti-slavery in the North‚ lead to increased activism and support for abolitionist causes. With this many people in the South viewed slavery as good‚ with the social being and way of life. This divide made the compromise even more difficult‚ as both sides saw the issue in a different
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America had struggled throughout time before the arrival of the civil war. The effect that lead to civil war was the Kansas-Nebraska Act‚ 1854 (Bleeding Kansas)‚ Compromise of 1850‚ Panic of 1857‚ Dred Scott Decision (1857)‚ John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry‚ and Election of Abraham Lincoln. The Missouri Compromise was the four-step compromise which make California a free state. They believed that they should solve slave trade and sectional of slave state and Free State themselves. (Faragher‚ 363) This
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causes and some of them were immediate causes. The long term causes were the problems that seemed to never be solved between the North and South. Slavery for instance was a long term problem because it was never completely solved; however continuous compromises were made between both sides‚ but the disagreements would not disappear. On the other hand‚ the immediate causes were the problems in which guaranteed that the North and South would have a Civil War. These causes include The Fugitive Slave Act‚
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completely on slavery. Eli Whitney’s cotton gin exploited this‚ seeing the introduction of over 3.9 million slaves to assist in cotton production. This saw the south production of cotton increase from 160 million pounds in 1820 to 2.3 billion pounds in 1860‚ a growth of 230%. With the south now able to produce cotton at much higher rates‚ increased demands worldwide were made‚ making the per capita wealth in the South $3‚978 compared to the North’s $2‚040. In response to this‚ the North industrialized
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history. While many factors contributed to the beginning of the Civil War‚ one of the key issues was the question of slavery. The issue of slavery had been a controversial topic since the founding of the U.S.‚ with compromises such as the Compromise of 1850 and the Missouri Compromise attempting to ease the growing tensions between the South and North due to their different views about slavery. While the South greatly relied on enslaved African Americans to work on their land. The North viewed slavery
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