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    Early life Main article: Abraham Lincoln’s early life and career Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12‚ 1809‚ to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln‚ two uneducated farmers. Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin on the 348 acre (1.4 km²) Sinking Spring Farm‚ in Nolin Creek‚ three miles (5 km) south of Hodgenville‚ in southeast Hardin County‚ Kentucky (now part of LaRue County)‚ an area which‚ at that time‚ was considered the "frontier." The name Abraham was chosen to commemorate his grandfather

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    1. In the United States‚ the significant change represented by the Supreme Court’s decisions concerning Dred Scott (1857) and Brown v. Board of Education (1954) best illustrates the * ability of government to revise tax laws. * desire of minority groups to be recognized. * disappearance of prejudice and discrimination. * continuing struggle of African Americans to achieve equality. 2. The United States Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) was important because

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    territories would be admitted as slave states or free states. To deal with this‚ Congress passed the Compromise of 1850 which basically made California free and allowed the people to pick in Utah and New Mexico. The ability of a state to decide whether it would allow slavery or not was called popular sovereignty. 2. Fugitive Slave Act - 1850 The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was passed as a part of the Compromise of 1850. This act forced any federal official who did not arrest a runaway slave liable to pay

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    Election of 1824 Jackson – president v.s. popular man JQ Adams Against general Jackson 土耳其 Clay no result pass to congress Jackson with army against politics (J.Q. Adams work with Clay) > Clay become secretary of state Jackson won the popular‚ but does not matter = According to Jackson and is supporters the election of 1824 was known as the A) Corrupt Bargain *Election of 1828 Jackson predict that he will won Jackson vs Adams Jackson won On this day in 1806

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    America began to expand first with the Louisiana Purchase and then by the Mexican War. Question was raised as to whether the new states admitted would be slave states or free states. The Missouri Compromise made a rule that prohibited slavery in states from the former Louisiana Purchase. Then the Compromise of 1850 was created by Henry Clay to deal with the balance between slave and free states‚ northern and southern interests. Another issue that increased tensions even more was the Kansas-Nebraska

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    The innovative crop and production tools caused a steep increase in slavery. The slave population in the South grew from 700‚000 slaves in 1790‚ to four million slaves in 1860. Slave owners in the deep South‚ specifically in Alabama‚ Georgia‚ and Louisiana‚ had the most slaves due to the profitability of cotton. The new and very lucrative crop transformed slavery in the South to a much harsher and demeaning lifestyle.

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    at a seat in but failed in two attempts at a seat in the United States Senate. After opposing the expansion of slavery in the United States in his campaign debates and speeches‚ Lincoln secured the Republican nomination and was elected president in 1860. Following declarations of secession by southern slave states‚ war began on April 12‚ 1861‚ and he concentrated on both the military and political dimensions of the war effort‚ seeking to reunify the nation. He vigorously exercised unprecedented war

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    small army of seventy people killed about sixty white people. After two days of the merciless killings‚ a militia subdued the insurgence. The Virginia lawmakers reacted by removing what few civil rights slaves and free blacks had. In 1850‚ the Compromise of 1820 helped save the sudden cessation of the Union‚ prevent a war‚ and alleviate the north and south hostilities. The law prevented any territorial expansion further south of slavery and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act‚ which made northerners

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    known as the Compromise of 1850. California would enter the Union as a free state. The slave trade‚ but not slavery itself‚ would be abolished in the nation’s capital. A stringent new law would allow southerners to reclaim runaway slaves. And the status of slavery in the remaining territories acquired from Mexico would be left to the decision of the local white inhabitants. The United States would also agree to pay off the massive debt Texas had accumulated while independent.” The compromise brought lots

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    Eyejan Saadoon ALCE 1605 King and Chaplin 30 November 2010 The Cause of the Civil War The United States Civil War was the result of conflictive ideologies between the Northern states and the Southern states. The North was abolitionist and heavily developed while the South was poorly industrialized and strongly dependent on agriculture. More than being a social issue slavery was the basis of economy in the Southern part of the United States. The problem was not about whether slavery was morally

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