gangs‚ beneath the supervision of slave owner. This concerned slaves being assigned a specific amount of labor to finish in a day. In spite of those variations‚ there had been a few dominant traits. First‚ slavery turned into tremendously rural. In 1860‚ best approximately 5% of all slaves lived in towns. Despite the fact that some slaves lived on small cities and others in large estates‚ the norm turned into in between. Similarly‚ most slaves lived inside the resident in their
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(1998) By Allen F The rise of American civilization‚ vol.II (1927) By Charles and Marry Beard Interpretations of American history patterns and perspectives vol.1.To 1877 6th Ed. (1987) By Gerald N The Secessionist impulse: Alabama and Mississippi in 1860 (1974) By Barney‚ William L
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began to occur it was a disputed topic on whether territories were able to have slavery or not. The Compromise of 1850 somewhat made the situation clearer by stating which territories could and could not have slavery‚ but popular sovereignty made this compromise not as useful because pro and against slave populations moved into the territory just to declare slave or slave free. Although the compromise stated where slavery was allowed it did not help clarify who or what could be consider a slave because
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Destiny The expansion of the United States from its thirteen original colonies to the nation it is today was a very extensive process‚ involving numerous wars and treaties. The greatest one of these expansion periods occurred from the 1830s to the 1860s‚ largely due to the idea of Manifest Destiny‚ the belief that American settlers were destined to expand across the continent to the Pacific coast. This development played a major role in dividing the North and the South by contributing to contrasting
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senators were elected by state legislatures‚ in turn Lincoln and Douglas were trying for their respective parties to win control of the Illinois legislature. The debates previewed the issues that Lincoln would face in the aftermath of his victory in the 1860 presidential election. The main issue discussed in all seven debates was slavery. In agreeing to the debates‚ Lincoln and Douglas decided to hold one debate in each of the nine congressional districts in Illinois. Because both had already spoken in
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1. Discuss the status of foreign claims and possessions in the trans-Mississippi West from 1811 to 1840. Trace the development of American interests in the region during this era. Between the years 1811 to 1840‚ Americans had migrated into the trans-Mississippi West in order to obtain defined boundaries with Canada and Mexico; moreover‚ they went westward to acquire the western edge of the continent. Commercial goals fueled early interest as traders firs sought beaver skins in Oregon territory
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number of immigrants from European countries to build up industries. By doing this‚ the North was gaining control of the government and killing the South’s efforts to maintain a balanced government. Also‚ after the Mexican/American War‚ the Missouri Compromise went into effect allowing slavery in western territories. Furthermore‚ the South felt that the slaves were more property than anything. They said that the federal government was prohibited by the tenth amendment by basically taking away the right
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In the early 1860s America faced the bloodiest war in its history‚ known as the American Civil War. The country was broken up by a drastic sectional divide between the North and South‚ which would eventually end in greater conflict than any yet seen on American soil. While many factors were important contributions to the cause of the war‚ there is ongoing dispute on what the most significant cause was. The North and South had many conflicting fundamental ideas such as Northern industrialism versus
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expansion of slavery into new territories and states was the most contentious issue of the day. The Northern and Southern wings of both the Democrats and the Whigs adopted particular positions on such controversies as the Wilmot Proviso and the Compromise of 1850 that kept the public looking to the political realm for solutions. But that political status quo fell apart as both the slavery issue and nativism could not be contained within the Second Party system. While the author views this development
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The issue of slavery became increasingly contentious in the years leading up to the Civil War. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 attempted to settle the issue of slavery in new territories‚ but they only temporarily eased tensions. The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act‚ which allowed the people in these territories to decide whether or not to allow slavery‚ further
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