economy and plantations become prosperous. When the United States received more land‚ states wondered whether slavery would be allowed in them or not. The laws and compromises mentioned previously reveal that this led to more conflict‚ mostly when the North didn’t agree with the Fugitive Slave Act. Also mentioned previously‚ the 1860 election revealed how important slavery was to the South when just the threat of it scared them to begin an entire new country. Abolitionist movements were also major
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DBQ 7. Slavery and the Civil War‚ 1846-1860 Slavery is something that many Americans cannot forget today but it was something that not many knew about in the 1840s. All of us are away of it. Back then it was something the North was not much aware of it and in the South it was domination of slavery. Many Northerners had no clue what so ever what slavery was until they were provided with information. As blacks started to move into America‚ they were forced to be laborers. They became slaves of
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political power. By 1860 America could not be seen as being a united society beacuse defined areas could be identified as having different outlooks and different values towards many issues. There are a few more factors‚ but these are more distant from slavery and are not a direct cause to the civil war. The future of slavery was the burning issue that led to the disruption in the union. Eventually this debate led to secession after secession and then arguably caused war. By 1860‚ 40% of southerners
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Also‚ he found the sectional compromise as a way to preserve the Union. Finally‚ John Brown who gave his life trying to end slavery and make the American people realize that slavery should end no matter what the cost was. Therefore‚ he was one of the most abolitionists and antislavery people in the North. However‚ the Southern view of slavery was different because they were for slavery. They wanted to permit slavery by the Missouri Compromise of 1820. This divided the country into North and
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the terms of the Kansas-Nebraska Act‚ and what piece of previous legislation was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act? The Kansas Nebraska act would split the proposed Territory of Nebraska in half thus making Kansas and Nebraska. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was repealed by the Kansas Nebraska Act as it violated the original proposal of abolishing slavery above the 36°30’ line. 2) What does the term “bleeding Kansas” refer to‚ and how does it relate to popular sovereignty? The term “Bleeding
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westward expansion‚ and began to manifest itself in American politics. The country could have gone to war by the early 1800s‚ but various political compromises held the two sections together for another half of a century. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 are two important examples. Tensions built over the 40 years of compromise. Abolitionists worked to gain support in the North while they caused outrage in the South. In the government‚ everything had to be compromised and
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Although a very controversial topic‚ the extension of slavery had a critical role in bringing on the Civil War‚ which took place in the United States from 1861 to 1865. Disagreements on the status of slaves between northern and southern regions‚ the question of whether laws over slavery were determined under federal law or according to state‚ accompanied by contradictions in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were at the heart of the crisis that inevitably led to the American Civil
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between the North and the South‚ caused by conflicting views on Westward Expansion were becoming more evident. Not only were the debates over westward expansion tedious; the ever growing social debate was also becoming alarmingly prevalent. And in 1860‚ the Civil War broke out‚ ultimately because of economic‚ political and social aspects of westward expansion. Therefore‚ westward expansion caused the Civil War. The Western Frontier was seen as a profitable enterprise by many people in the 1850s
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transformed America between 1820 and 1860 brought all of the following changes except A) the development of a national market economy B) the appearance of a major manufacturing sector C) the creation of a more united country D) the alliance of the Northeast and Northwest E) the participation of farmers in the increasingly international economy Answer: C Page: 259 Difficulty: Medium Theme 5: Economic Transformations 2. The American population of the 1820s and 1830s was characterized
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entitled to representation. In a head-to-head battle for power between the generally abolitionist northern states and the generally pro-slavery southern states‚ compromises of ½ proposed by Benjamin Harrison and ¾ by several New Englanders were rejected with the consensus finally agreeing on a 3/5 compromise proposed by James Madison. The 3/5 Compromise carried a heavy political toll in early America and gave the southern states a distinct political advantage until the abolition of slavery in 1865 with the
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