resolve their political disputes through compromise‚ yet by 1860 this no longer seemed possible. This is because of Taxes‚ slavery‚ Manifest Destiny‚ Texas Migration‚ development of new Political parties. Before 1860 United States had one third of the territory that we have today. United States was divided into two parts‚ north and south. Between the North and South there were disputes about slavery. Then Henry Clay came up with the 36 60 line(Missouri Compromise). this line distinguished the difference
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10/21/13 7:23 PM 1. Economic and social differences between the North and the South. With Eli Whitney ’s invention of the cotton gin in 1793‚ cotton became very profitable. This machine was able to reduce the time it took to separate seeds from the cotton. However‚ at the same time the increase in the number of plantations willing to move from other crops to cotton meant the greater need for a large amount of cheap labor‚ i.e. slaves. Thus‚ the southern economy became a one crop economy‚ depending
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sections of America. Southern states wanted new slave territories‚ while the North wanted to contain the spread of slavery. While Western expansion contributed to growing sectional tensions between the North and South from 1800-1820‚ sectionalism intensified significantly from 1820-1850. Since the turn of the nineteenth century‚ Western territorial expansion started to increase a sense of sectionalism throughout America. President Jefferson obtained the Louisiana purchase from Napoleon in 1803‚ gaining
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Goal 1 & 2: The Nation’s Early Beginnings (1789-1840) 1. Who was the first President? 2. What is a precedent? 3. What group did Washington create to advise him? 4. What two important pieces of legislation did the 1st Congress pass? 5. Who wanted to create a national bank? 6. What powers would be used to create a national bank? 7. How did the U.S. react to the latest British and French war? 8. What precedent for future Presidents did Washington set at his retirement? 9. What two things did
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sovereignty‚ the idea that issues should be decided upon by the people (specifically‚ it applied to slavery‚ stating that the people in the territories should decide to legalize it or not). It was good (and liked by politicians) because it was a compromise between the extremes of the North and the South‚ and it stuck with the idea of self-determination‚ but it could spread slavery. II. Political Triumphs for General Taylor The Whigs nominated General Zachary Taylor‚ the hero of Buena Vista
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Period 3 March 20‚ 2013 CBA final draft The Civil War Until this day people sill debate about what the main cause of the civil war was. The civil war was a war fought between the Northern and Southern states of the U.S. It was a battle about disagreements between the north and south states that took place all over the U.S. Many of the battles took place from the Mississippi river to the eastern shore. Probably the most gruesome battle of this war was the battle of Gettysburg. Out of the 2
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Martha Vasquez November 23‚ 2013 E Block Identification of Terms- Unit 3 1 (4) Shakers Who: A group of religious people who derived their name from a unique ritual in which they would “shake” themselves free of sin. They were most well known for their celibacy‚ which meant that most Shakers entered the religion on their own. Also‚ they embraced the idea of sexual equality and believed God was not clearly male or female. When: Founded in the 1770s Significance or Impact: The Shakers made a redefinition
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Court expected to lay to rest the issue of slavery in the territories. - In the Dred Scott case‚ the Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott was not a citizen of the United States; Dred Scott could not legally sue in a federal court; the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional; and Congress had no power to ban slavery from a territory. - The decision rendered in the Dred Scott case was applauded by proslavery southerners. - For a majority of northerners‚ the most outrageous part of the Supreme
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sensitive political forces into a strong and compelling movement. This new political party‚ with its history changing platform‚ arose out of a long and complex sequence of events. In the 1850s America’s culture was crumbling. Decades of political compromise and avoidance on the issue of slavery had kept an uneasy peace. The Mexican-American war added over 500‚000 square miles to the U.S. and rekindled sectional competition for slave versus non-slave territory. Ralph Waldo Emerson prophesied‚ “The
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