AP US History Even though compromises and agreements look straight forward‚ the parties involved usually have ulterior motives. The Compromise of 1877 was consisted of a few main point. It called for the withdrawal of all federal troops from the South‚ supported internal improvements in the South and promised to appoint at least one Southerner to the cabinet. Also it gave conservative Southern Democrats some control over their local patronage and gave the South a free hand in race relations
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One compromise of the constitution was The Great Compromise‚ or the Connecticut Compromise. The Great Compromise was put into place because the states could not agree upon how they should each be represented in national government. The smaller states did not want representation based on population because they would then have less representatives in government. The larger states believed that because their population was greater they should have more representation for their people. The smaller states
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constitution was that of a limiting action. To answer the prompt‚ the Constitution opposed slavery. There are two key areas in the Constitution that this essay will examine. First‚ the ⅗’s compromise clause. Second‚ Article 1‚ Section 9‚ which deals with regulation of commerce. First‚ the Three-Fifths Compromise was authored to allow for ‘other persons’ to be factored into the population census‚ “... shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons‚ including those bound to service
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Civil War So many major events from the time between 1848 and 1861‚ lead up to the civil war between the Union and the Confederacy. “Historians have identified at least four main causes of the conflict between the North and the South: (1) slavery‚ as a growing moral issue in the North‚ versus its defense and expansion in the South; (2) constitutional disputes over the nature of the federal Union and states’ rights; (3) economic differences between the industrializing North and the agricultural South
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slavery due to the Missouri Compromise of 1820. This‚ in turn‚ caused representatives in Congress to have no interest in creating a Nebraska territory. Senator Stephen A. Douglas was the driving factor behind the Kansas-Nebraska Act. With the goal in mind that Nebraska would become a territory‚ the Kansas- Nebraska Act would allow each territory the ability to choose whether or not they supported slavery. With this being enacted‚ it was a direct violation of the Missouri Compromise. The bill that allowed
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Missouri Compromise The first ships with African Slaves arrived in America in the 1600s and the slave trade spread through the colonies and continued through the birth of the United States. With the expansion of cotton and other goods of agriculture through the South‚ more slaves were needed to continue production. But after the American Revolution‚ many American goods‚ including indigo and tobacco‚ lost their appeal because the British were less keen to only trading with the US. Many slaves that
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Assess the extent to which slavery was the principal cause of the American Civil War. The American Civil War of 1861 – 1865 occurred principally because of slavery. Although other catalysts contributed to the outbreak of war‚ all were inextricably bound to the institution of slavery‚ which ultimately upset the equilibrium between the North and the South. Economic differences highlighted through agriculture and industry‚ states rights and the admission of new states as slave or free and the constitution
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The Great Compromise of 1787 or the Connecticut Compromise of 1787 refers to the settlement of the dispute that rose due to conflicting views put forward by the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey plan. These plans proposed changes in the Articles of Confederation that was the aim of the Philadelphia Convention of 1787. However‚ whereas the Virginia Plan seemed to provide a greater representation of the more populous states in the national government‚ the New Jersey Plan was proposed by the smaller
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COMPROMISE WITH COLONIALISM Successful suppression of revolutionary outbreak after the formal end of the Fil-Am war was enough reason for the Filipino elite to pursue the alternative of peaceful struggle. Involvement During the Military Phase‚ 1899-1913 1899‚ Schurman Commission --> also known as the First Philippine Commission -->the legislature of the Philippines‚ then known as the Philippine Islands under the sovereign control of the United States during the Philippine-American War. It was established
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Using the DBQ Practice Questions from The Enduring Vision‚ Sixth Edition A Teachers’ Guide Ray Soderholm Minnetonka High School Minnetonka‚ Minnesota Using the DBQ Practice Questions from The Enduring Vision‚ 6th Edition A Teachers’ Guide This guide is intended to suggest some possible ways that students may organize essays related to the document-based questions in the Advanced Placement version of The Enduring Vision‚ 6th Edition‚ and to provide teachers with some information on each included
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