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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The United States in the nineteenth century evolved from settling on the Atlantic coast in the seventeenth century all the way to the Pacific Coast. Some civilians from the late 1830s and 1840s believed slavery to be the primary cause of western expansion. While this may be true‚ it was not the primary reason. There were many reasons for the expansion that were equally as important and impactful as slavery. The annexation of new states would allow the United States to grow economically and industrially
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Southern delegates went so far as to concede control on commercial regulation in exchange for the protection of slavery. The threat of southern delegates abandoning the convention forced northerners to compromise on this issue in order to ratify the Constitution. While the delegate’s compromise established initial unity between the North and South‚ it set out a precedent for sectional concessions‚ which became increasingly intolerable to the other side. Increased sectional tensions eventually resulted
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constitution was adopted by all of the states in 1789‚ uniting the states into one nation‚ differences between the states had been worked out through compromises. For more than 30 years arguments between the North and South had been growing. By 1861 these differences between the Northern states and the Southern states had become so great that compromise would no longer work. Thus‚ a conflict started within our nation that was called the civil war (1861-1865). The American Civil War was a series of political
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federal level between the years 1854-1856. The early Republicans arose out of tradition regarding reform and economic policies. With the successful of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill of 1854‚ an act that stopped the terms in the Missouri Compromise and allowed slave agreement in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery in the United States; concerning the extension of slavery into new territories. By February 1854‚ anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the upper Midwestern states to discuss the formation
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* Causes of the Civil War Long Term Causes * Social‚ Cultural Divide between North and South * Economic Divide between North and South * Political Divide between North and South: Collapse of Political System: Inability to Compromise * Slavery * Causes of the Civil War: Long Term Causes (from Colonial Times) * 1. Social and Cultural Divide between North and South * North: more urbanized‚ more diverse‚ more developed‚ more advanced infrastructure / transportation
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Confederation‚ slavery was an issue that had to be dealt with. When the final vote for the ratification of the Constitution some states would not sign on it if slavery were made illegal. They decided to deal with it in twenty years. After the compromise of 1820 they limited slavery to the south‚ which would split the country into two for the next forty years. The South would feel that slavery was the best thing for the slave for it gave them something productive to do. The North however as a majority
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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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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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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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