1820-1861. During the period of 1820-1861 the north and south debated on issues that dealt with slavery and unbalance power‚ in order to reduce sectional tension between these two states‚ the Missouri Compromise‚ Compromise of 1850‚ and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were proposed. The North and South both had opposite opinions about slavery‚ The South favored slavery because of there agricultural based economy which they needed slaves to attend to their harvests and crops‚ the North was against slavery
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Before the beginning of the Civil War‚ Americans tried to resolve slavery by drawing or erasing a geographical line to limit or expand the growth of slavery. These lines were not very affective and changed much too often. It begins with the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 and ends with the Crittendon Compromise in 1861. The Northwestern Ordinance (1787) was the biggest success under the Articles of Confederation. It wrote out how the nation should deal with its colonies. It created a policy for administering
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secession of the southern states. These factors affected the people of America tremendously due to slavery and racial segregation. Three significant factors that led the eleven southern states to secede from the Union were abolitionists (Doc. 5)‚ Kansa-Nebraska Act‚ and the election of 1860 (Doc. 1). During the period of slave existence‚ abolitionists began to rebel against the situation (Doc. 5). Abolitionists were people who were against slavery and would take action by doing something in their own
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• Harriet Beecher Stowe was infuriated when she heard that the Compromise of 1850 would help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves. • She began to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin to express her beliefs on the law and how slavery wasn’t justified. The Fugitive Slave Act: • The law that allowed suspected runaway slaves to be recaptured was called the Fugitive Slave Act. The people accused of being runaways had little hope. The person to rule them as free was a commissioner who would profit more by turning
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slavery. The Fugitive Slave Act The fugitive slave act of 1850 strengthened legislation allowing the capture of runaway slaves in the northern states. But the Act resulted in an abundance of violent acts and protests. B. Kansas-Nebraska Bill The Kansas-Nebraska bill exposed the conflicting interpretations of popular sovereignty. Northerners and southerners‚ however‚ still disagreed violently over what territorial settlers could constitutionally do. The bill overruled the
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wondering‚ how the heck did I get here? Jim Burden’s life changes drastically at the age of 10‚ when he is forced to travel cross-country by train to live on the Nebraska frontier with his grandparents after the death of his parents. Jim was accompanied by his father’s former farmhand Jake. On that same train headed to Nebraska‚ there is a Bohemian family headed to the same place.  Jim’s grandparents are simple yet kind people with generous natures. He begins to enjoy the wide open spaces
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First thing first‚ what is the compromise of 1850? The compromise of1850 was a set of five bills that eventually lead to the civil war. Its purpose was to keep away confrontation between the northern free slave states and the southern slave states and keep the nation united. The first bill consist of California being admitted to the union as a free state. The second bill allowed New Mexico and Utah settlers to vote on an issue. The third bill relied on Texas loosing New Mexico territory‚ but $10
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marriage was legal‚ but the attorney general of the state of Nebraska found the affair illegal‚ sentencing Koso to the specified jail term. This decision is plausible for two reasons. First‚ it should be considered that Statutory Rape laws in the US protect the exploitation of minors by seniors in terms of sexual issues‚ which is why it was illegal for Koso to have had an affair with the girl. According to the Statutory Rape laws of Nebraska‚ it is illegal for an individual above
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all the States‚ old as well as new‚ North as well as South. Have we no tendency to the latter condition? Let any one who doubts carefully contemplate that now almost complete legal combination - piece of machinery‚ so to speak -- compounded of the Nebraska doctrine and the Dred Scott decision. Let him consider not only what work the machinery is adapted to do‚ and how well adapted; but also let him study the history of its construction‚ and trace‚ if he can‚ or rather fail‚ if he can‚ to trace the
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Did you know that there was over 1‚700 miles of railroad track laid in the US from 1863-1869? This magnificent project was known as the Transcontinental Railroad‚ stretching all the way from California to Nebraska. The transcontinental railroad‚ took a long time to build‚ but connected the East and the West of the United States and had many impacts. Building the railroad was no easy task. The US government passed the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862‚ and this gave the private companies permission‚
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