contention surrounding government policies and opinions on controversial topics. The slave and free states had disagreements about prohibiting slavery and were unable to compromise‚ especially with the debate over the amount of power the national government had to prohibit it or not. With these disagreements came battles‚ compromises‚ and debates that tried to fix the problem which ended up creating more issues between the north and south and led to the start of the Civil War. The legislative‚ judicial
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Lincoln in 1861 with the secession of the southern states. After the secession of the southern states‚ the war officially started with the Battle of Fort Summer on April 12‚ 1861. Many disagreements regarding slavery‚ the states‚ the economy‚ and compromises caused the buildup to the Civil War. The South wanted to
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created the telegraph and by 1860‚ this ranged throughout the east coast to the Mississippi. Railroads became very important to the trade throughout the United States. By the start of the Civil War‚ railroads linked the most important Mid-West cities with the Atlantic coast. Railroads eventually opened the west and connected raw materials to factories and markets. A transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869 in Promontory‚ Utah. On March 3‚ 1820‚ The Missouri Compromise bill‚ written by Henry Clay
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The article of confederation Adopted on November 15th 1777 but fully implemented on March 1st 1781 « 1754 League of friendship » The text -Article I : Name of the new country -Article II : It guarantees the sovereignty of the States -Article III : Definition of the Confederation as a « League of Friendship » + mutual defense -Article IV : Rights and privileges of the people + statis of criminals Article V : Congress Article VI : Area for which the states are not responsible.
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Ch. 12 1) Among the primary reasons that young farm women moved from the farms to work in textile mill towns in the early 19th century was: To escape farm life and earn wages 2) The history of Lowell epitomizes this transition: Self-sufficient farm families to urban wageworkers 3)In the pre-industrial system‚ a boy who wanted to learn a trade Entered a formal apprenticeship system 4)The organization of a family business in the pre-industrial era was Patriarchal 5) If you lived in Boston
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Slavery played a significant role in the 19th century which also contributed to the development of America. The vast majority of slavery occurred in the southern states‚ since the Missouri compromise prohibited slaves in new northern states. The south flourished economically through slave’s labor on the wide-ranging plantations. The social side of slavery in the South gave plantation owners a poor reputation. Politically‚ the south broke from the union to protect their slaves. The average southerners
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group of men who were considered to be radicals and their main purpose was to free the slaves. Lincoln had a massive appeal to majority of Americans due to leading a more moderate‚ yet progressive party. This is what helped him to become President in 1860. Lincoln was pushed and pulled in many directions during his time when the more Radical republicans tried to sway him into adhering to their policies. Lincoln made it quite clear that he was responsible for all Americans‚ noting how dangerous it would
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As with all great conflicts in history‚ it was not one factor but rather a multitude of issues that led to the breakdown of compromise during the 19th century and eventually to the Civil War. The government of the period was entirely content to sweep the issue of slavery under the rug‚ contrasting sharply with the strongly polar feelings of the nation‚ with the South wanting to expand the ‘peculiar institution’ and the North beginning to see it as a moral dilemma. The combination of these contradictory
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In 1820‚ Congress passed the Missouri Compromise‚ which created Missouri as a slave state‚ and Maine as a free state‚ in order to preserve the balance of power between North and South. However‚ in 1854‚ the Missouri Compromise was revoked by the Kansas-Nebraska Act‚ which specified that the issue of slavery would be decided by the settlers of each territory‚ an idea known as popular
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A.P. United States History Dr. Parsons 1/3/2012 DBQ 1996 Question: In what ways and to what extent did constitutional and social developments between 1860 and 1877 amount to a revolution? Doc A: South Carolina declaration of Causes of Secession‚ Dec. 24‚ 1860. Evidence: Interpretation of the 10th Amendment--…powers not prohibited to federal govt nor prohibited to states are reserved to the states‚ or people. Inference: Challenges Article 4‚ section 4 and Article 6‚ section 2; assumes
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