documents and books written about the Civil War‚ this war also settled disputes betweent the states and gave many blacks their freedom. The origins of the American Civil War are entwined within the complex issues of slavery‚ expansionism‚ sectionalism‚ and political party politics of the Antebellum Period. As territorial expansion forced the United States to confront the question of whether new areas of
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Illinois 1852 - Canal building‚ Gov. Dewitt Clinton - Erie Canal‚ Buffalo-Albany 363 miles‚ $7m - Steamboats‚ Robert Fulton‚ Clermont - Oliver Evans‚ high pressure steam engines‚ founding father The Railroads: - arteries that united the nation - 1850’s decade of the railroad‚ Chicago‚ 9 – 30‚000 miles - John Bloomfield Jervis – “Bogie” - spurred the growth of factories Samuel Morse invented the electric telegraph Cyrus W. Field pushed his idea of an underwater telegraph line to Europe‚
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Western Hemisphere. The U.S. continued to enforce this Doctrine to this day‚ with perhaps the most famous example being President Kennedy’s Cuban Blockade. After the War of 1812‚ America’s nationalism and unification began to fade in the face of sectionalism. The North and the South soon began to dispute over controversial issues. The South depended on an agricultural‚ slave based economy.
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Dan Leise The Civil War was a defining event in American history that can be understood by examining the controversies that the role of slavery and its westward expansion had between the North and the South. The Antebellum years from 1845-1861 were the most chaotic because of significant economic and political struggles‚ the most divisive being the debate over slavery. The expansion of slavery into newly claimed western territories intensified the fragile political situation and increased the sectional
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believed that slavery was were also against slavery such as Thomas Jefferson who not only described slavery as a "cruel war against human nature itself‚" but also stated in a letter to John Holmes concerning the present situation of sectionalism and the Missouri Compromise "that there is not a man on earth who would sacrifice more than I would to relieve us from this heavy reproach‚ in a practical way."(C) It was obvious
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the American Civil War‚ by making it impossible for Northerners to continue to ignore the harsh realities of slavery in the South. The attempts that were made to compromise and prevent war were the Compromise of 1850‚ The Kansas-Nebraska Act‚ and The Corwin Amendment. The Compromise of 1850 was unsuccessful in preventing the Civil War because it was made up of 5 bills that tried to resolve the dispute over slavery for the new territories. California was admitted to be a free state while the United
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Topic 10: The Transition Period I. The Free Trade Era in Europe. During the mercantilist era‚ trade was seen as a zero-sum game: one country’s gain was another country’s loss. If Spain imported more from England that she exported to England‚ she had to send specie to England to make up the difference. In the mercantilist view‚ this was viewed as a loss for Spain and a gain for England. So‚ countries established policies to encourage favorable trade balances: they subsidized export industries
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railroad‚ highways‚ canals‚ turnpike‚ and other transportation mobiles were improved during this revolution. Sectionalism (Political and Economic) – loyalty to a particular region. Jacksonian Democracy – the political movement toward greater democracy for the common man typified by American politician Andrew Jackson and his supporters. Also refers to the era of the Second Party System (1830’s-1854) when the democratic attitude was the spirit. It promoted the strength of the presidency and executive
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Audrey Hepburn March 4‚ 2013 Mr. Miller AP U.S. History South vs. North 1800-1850 FRQ: In spite of sharing a country‚ the Northern and Southern areas of America had many differences and distinctions‚ which ended up dividing the nation. During the first part of the 1800’s the North and the South grew in different ways. In the North‚ cities were centers of wealth and manufacturing. There were many skilled workers. In the South there was not much manufacturing. There were not many skilled workers
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