English Composition I Arguing a Position Paper February 18‚ 2009 Protecting our Children Over the past two decades‚ child abuse cases have soared in Nebraska. And though many adults abhor the actions of the offenders in these cases. Many of them go Virtually unpunished‚ or receive a slap on the hand. The State of Nebraska has several Laws on the books to protect our children from predators‚ in and outside of the home Unfornately‚ the sentence that are imposed does little
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As slavery in the north was decreasing‚ slavery in the south was increasing rapidly. Ever since the textile boom in the northern states and in Europe‚ cotton has been a high demanding textile material. Plantation owners couldn’t work the whole plantations by themselves. The southern states depended heavily on slaves to work their plantations. The south depended heavily on slavery‚ and slavery was vital to the south because they needed the slave’s labor to work their plantations. This why slavery
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What Caused The Civil War? There were many different contributing factors to the start of The Civil War. Five of these causes were the Northwest Ordinance and Missouri Compromise‚ John Brown’s raid‚ The 1850 Compromise‚ The Kansas-Nebraska Act‚ and the constant conflict between the North and South. The Northwest Ordinance said the there could be no slavery in states north of the Ohio River‚ however slave holders moved west to new states. This then led to the Missouri Compromise which said no slave
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Cather was born December 7th‚ 1873 on a small farm in Back Creek Valley near Winchester‚ Virginia. Her mother and father‚ Mary and Charles Cather‚ had seven children‚ Willa being the oldest. The family moved to the immigrant village of Red Cloud‚ Nebraska in 1883. Cather grew up around many different cultures from Europe and was‚ therefore‚ exposed to the harsh realities of new life on the Great Plains at an early age (Webster ’s 69). Cather ’s grandmothers educated her because there no schools close
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of it. For example‚ the Kansas-Nebraska Act‚ the Fugitive Slave Act‚ and the famous book Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was one of the sparks to the civil war. This Act allowed Kansas and Nebraska to become a territory in the United States. But there was a law called Popular Sovereignty. In these two new territories there were pro-slavery people and anti-slavery people. Popular Sovereignty stated that the people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska could vote on whether or not there
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The Civil War was a very complicated war and had more than one cause. The Fugitive Slave Act‚ Kansas-Nebraska Act‚ Dred Scott decision‚ John Brown’s Raid‚ and the election of 1860 were all factors that led to the Civil War. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 out the Federal government behind slave catchers. This now made the assisting of runaway slaves a federal offence. This also was a problem for free African Americans because if a white slave catcher said that a free African American was a runaway
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slavery to eventually be ended‚ but understood it’s importance to the lives of Southerners. Early in 1854‚ Stephan A. Douglas routinely introduced a bill to the United States Senate to repeal the Missouri Compromise and allow the locals of the Nebraska Territory to decide whether their territories would be free states or slave states. Douglas’ bill would be enacted‚ but it would cause a “storm” of protests in the North. Northerners‚ for the most part‚ came to despised slavery. Many of them wanted
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who you know. Since Martin Waldseemuller was such a credible mapmaker‚ no one questioned his motives. It is said by historians that Waldseemuller later changed his mind about Amerigo’s credibility‚ but by then it was too late. The name had stuck.(Nebraska
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Monroe. The Missouri Compromise was implicitly repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act‚ submitted to Congress by Stephen A. Douglas in January 1854. The Act opened Kansas Territory and Nebraska Territory to slavery and future admission of slave states by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through "popular sovereignty" whether they would allow slavery within each territory. Thus‚ the Kansas-Nebraska Act effectively undermined the prohibition on slavery in territory north
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prosperity. Southerners were highly dependent‚ and supportive of slavery‚ however many moral arguments and political actions went toward the opposition to the spread of slavery including the Missouri compromise‚ the Compromise of 1850‚ and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The Missouri Compromise was one of the political actions towards prohibiting slavery in new territory. It was a two-part political action by Henry Clay‚ he would first admit Missouri to the union as a free state‚ and was balanced by Maine’s
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