admitted as slave state - Maine created as free state - Line of 1820 (36 .30 ) 1828-1833 - South Carolina tariff nullification crisis 1831-1860 – antislavery activism (1831: William Lloyd Garrison - The Liberator) 1831 slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in Southampton County‚ Virginia 1845 annexation of Texas 1846-1848 Mexican War 1848 U.S. victory over Mexico; territorial expansion (California‚ Utah and New Mexico territories) 1850 Compromise of 1850: - California admitted as free state
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harsh journey the Native Americans had to endure while moving west because of the Indian Removal act that was signed by Andrew Jackson. Many Native Americans died while on the journey because of the harsh conditions and many became very ill. The Nat Turner rebellion was about a black slave of the early nineteenth century‚ who led the only effective slave rebellion in American history. He and his supporters killed several dozen white people in Virginia before he was captured; he was hanged in 1831
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had [been] given the inch‚ and no precaution could prevent [him] from taking the ell” (pg. 260). Douglass was taking control and there was nothing that could stop him. Very similar to Nat Turner‚ he was going to require a lot to stop him from murdering all of the people he wanted to. At the end of it all Nat Turner was very proud of what he had done‚ he was “yet daring to raise his manacled hands to heaven‚ with a spirt soaring above the attributes of man” (pg. 122). Both of these men did what they
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Compromise was set into place. Any states above the 36° 30’ latitude line are free states excluding Missouri. Any states below the 36° 30’ latitude line are slave states. The next trigger event of the Civil War is Nat Turner’s Rebellion. Turner was born into slavery in 1800 in Virginia. Turner worked long hard hours with
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The existence of slavery lasted during the time of the colonies and continued when the colonies became the United States of America as a whole. Given that slavery was spread out across multiple colonies and states in the United States‚ it is safe to assume there was a great similarity and difference in slavery between the northern and southern regions. Slaves were treated as property‚ though their owners may have been more abusive in the South due to their needs for a higher quantity of workers to
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1. Sarah and Angelina Grimke grew up in South Carolina on a slave plantation‚ and as they got older rejected the southern lifestyle and moved up north to advocate for the abolitionist movement and women’s rights. 2. The Nullification Crisis occurred in 1828 after The Tariff of Abominations put a tariff on imported goods; South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union. The tariff benefited the north but hurt the south. 3. The nullification crisis of 1832 was resolved by a proclamation from
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Is John brown a terrorist or revolutionary. Well lets see‚ I believe that john brown was a terrorist for 3 reason‚ my first proof reason is that his initial plan was to take control of the federal armory and after that cease control of all the weapons and use them to arm and free slaves all across the south. My second reason is that John Brown has a long line of insane family members. My third and final proof is that john brown is abolitionist but not antislavery. I believe that John
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Dred Scott was a non-citizen slave who was given to his owner’s wife after he died‚ and she took him to a free state. He pleaded for freedom. His famous court case was taken to the Supreme Court and Roger B Taney‚ Supreme Court Justice at the time‚ ruled that he must go back to his owner because the Fifth Amendment stated that you cannot be stripped of your property‚ and slaves were property. During the Mexican war‚ it was a very large concern that the new land acquired during the war would become
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Chapter 7 40. Petition of the Inhabitants West of the Ohio River. Ohioans that petitioned to Congress about the monopolizing of acreage by private companies on the frontier after the War of Independence‚ the farmers also asked for “vacant lands” 41. James Madison‚ The Federalist‚ No. 51 To generate support for the Constitution‚ Alexander Hamilton‚ James Madison‚ and John Jay composed 85 essays under Publius in The Federalist. The security of liberty and power balanced power lies in the nation’s
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How African American slaves sought control over their lives People of the African continent were transported to the New World with a sole purpose: enslavement. Between 1501 and 1866 over 12.5 million Africans were taken from their homeland to be enslaved across the Atlantic.1 The Middle Passage‚ as the journey is often called‚ brutally took many lives before ships arrived at their destination‚ killing approximately 1.8 million slaves-to-be. Of the 10.7 million Africans who survived the dreadful
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