DBQ #5: Slavery and Sectional Attitudes‚ 1830-1860 During the mid 1800’s many Americans began to have mix feelings over the issue of slavery. Many northern Americans believed that slavery was morally wrong and that it was an evil. Southerners on the other hand believed it was a good for the economy as well as for commerce. This great split of attitudes between the north and the south eventually led to threat of the civil war. The North saw the issue of slavery as an evil. They believed
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DBQ # 6 Slavery and Sectional Attitudes One effect on the issue was that the economy in the south was fueled by cultivation of staple crops that required slaves for labor. In the South slavery wasn’t thought as an evil as in the North because to the Southerners defense the slaves in their opinion were treaty in contrast to workers in England and peasants that were Irish‚ also the end of slave trade brought higher value to the slaves causing their owners to be less harsh because they were more valuable
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How did the tensions of the 1860s show the human side of the Civil War? Three perspectives of the Civil War were the children‚ African Americans‚ and the medical staff. Most of the effects of the tensions made were not good. One side of the Civil War were the children. Tens of thousands of fathers were killed in the war. This caused many children to become orphans‚ causing the opening of many orphanages all across America. Some children wanted to become soldiers and they would slip through the cracks
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Slavery is one of the things that we can still feel its effects today‚ like the discrimination towards African American‚ and stereotypes that are associated with them‚ which started with slavery. Slavery wasn’t a dependency for the south until their crops started to grow‚ and they needed a stable work force. As the wealth of the South grew so did the dependency on slaves. When the North questioned openly the morality of slavery the South defended itself with paternalism that was far from the truth
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Why the War Came: The Sectional Struggle over Slavery in the Territories – David Herbert Donald Why the War Came: The Sectional Struggle over Slavery in the Territories Reduction In “Why the War Came: The Sectional Struggle over Slavery in the Territories” written by David Herbert Donald‚ the ultimate cause for the Civil War was the disagreement between the North and the South about slavery and if the new Western states being added should be free or slave states. The main belief was that slavery
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time when slavery was notorious for dividing our nation in half. Abolitionists‚ people who were against the spread of slavery‚ had an important role in the emancipation of slaves. Frederick Douglass‚ a former slave and well-known abolitionist‚ was eminent for his anti-slavery speeches and writings. Many of his articles laid the groundwork for the Civil War and were directed towards the government and President Abraham Lincoln. Based on one of Douglass’s articles‚ his viewpoints on slavery and the
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The beginning of the Civil War was caused by various components occurring in the United States. The role of Slavery brought on the Civil War. With different means of economic prosperity‚ the north was more industrialized while the south depended on more agriculture. Different political ideology‚ the south wanted more power to the states while the north wanted more power to the federal government. The Civil War was a gradual progress‚ the evolving challenges in individual’s civil rights faced led to
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doubtful that he knew its impact on the country and ultimately the future of the Union. In his Cooper Union Address‚ future president Abraham Lincoln thoroughly rebuked the southern Democrats Stephen A. Douglas’ statements about the Republicans’ slavery stance by using not only the oppositions wording against them‚ he supported his arguments with true examples sited from the signatories of the Constitution and their past voting record‚ from information gleaned during his career as a lawyer‚ and from
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Slavery Slavery was one of the worst conflicts in the Civil War and was the worst decision of mankind. Slavery impacted all of our policies‚ laws‚ and societal norms by showing us that most of the population of southern people had plantations back in the 1860s and later on. The civil war was fought for states rights and for slavery‚ either keeping it which the southerners wanted or completely getting rid of it which the northerners wanted all along. Abolitionists fought to end slavery. In the decades
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History 1301 Homework #4 John Adams speaks out on slavery and religion. John Quincy Adams was a strong opponent of slavery and used the various positions he held to promote abolition of slavery. As president he proposed programs that would lead to an end to slavery‚ but was unable to get it through Congress. Later in life‚ as a Congressman‚ he argued that if a civil war ever broke out the president could abolish slavery by using his war powers‚ a policy followed by President Abraham Lincoln
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