different views on civil rights for black slaves during 1820 of1860. The North’s pro-civil rights stance grew as a result of solid economic base in industrialization and their settlement history of religious freedom. While the North’s soil and climate did not favor large plantations‚ this region did have many natural resources which helped fuel the growth of industrialization and urban areas. As shown in Document A in the “Railroads in 1860‚” the North had more than two-thirds of the railroad tracks
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led to slaves and cotton being the base of the souths economy. The abolitionist movement during the late 1800’s began dividing the United States over the issue of slavery. Slavery was banned in all of the new western states in the Missouri compromise in 1820. The south thought this was a threat to slavery itself. One Supreme Court case back in 1857 said that black people were not citizens there for escaped slaves in the north were still
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To help resolve the is The Missouri Compromise was passed. This would determine lands to the west of the Mississippi as slave states while keeping north of the Mississippi as free states. Most southerners felt that this law favored the north and were designed to hurt the south. It was not until
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slave trade or international slave trade illegal in 1808‚ but it did not hold back the practice of domestic slavery that was becoming even larger in the United States. The act of trading between the colonies in the United States flourished‚ and by 1860‚ the amount of slaves in the United States unfortunately tripled‚ and reached to four million. The expansion of pro-slavery beliefs in the western parts of the United States in addition to the increase in abolitionists in the northern parts of the
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Lincoln and Douglas Debates The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln‚ the republican candidate‚ and the incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas‚ a Democratic Party candidate‚ for a seat in the United States Senate. During the time period of the debates‚ Senators were elected by state legislators; therefore Lincoln and Douglas were competing for their respective parties to win control of the Illinois Legislature. The main issue for the debates was
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states not by the federal government. By examining these two points we may be able to get a clear understanding of popular opinions and mindsets that would cause a nation to war against itself. With the election of Abraham Lincoln on November 6‚ 1860 South Carolina saw the only recourse was to secede from the
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after the Civil War. Written in 1863‚ it proclaimed that a state could be reintegrated into the Union when 10% of its voters in the 1860 election pledged their allegiance to the U.S. and pledged to abide by emancipation‚ and then formally erect their state governments. This plan was very lenient to the South‚ would have meant an easy reconstruction. 1860 Elections served as the 3rd Vice President of the United States. Member of the Republicans and President of the Senate during his
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daughter. He then returned to Salem due to financial pressures. “Him losing his job turned out to be a blessing as he had the time to write some of his best works”. Such as The Scarlet Letter‚ The House of Seven Gables‚ and The Birthdale Romance. In 1860‚ he published The Marble Faun‚ our old home‚ and later went on a tour with Franklin
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