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    was considered to be the bloodiest war fought on american ground. It was an internal war within the United States‚ between the Northern States and the Southern States. Mostly about slavery‚ but other things led to this. The Missouri Compromise‚ the Compromise of 1850 and the Battle of Fort Sumter. Over a million Soldiers died and the northern Ideals flourished while the Southern fell. Through the 1700’s to 1860’s slaves were widely used throughout the south for labor purposes. They would pick

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    war can be analyzed from the social‚ political and economic aspects. However‚ political compromises from different party persuasions and state interest led to the inevitable event of a national civil war. According to experts‚ up to 10 events and situations directly made the war unavoidable. These include the Fugitive Slave of Act of 1850‚ the rejection of the Lecompton constitution of 1857‚ Missouri Compromise and Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854. The war lasted from 1861 to 1865 leading to the death

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    the Second Party system consisting of the Whigs and Democrats played from Andrew Jackson’s presidency to the early 1850s. The expansion of slavery into new territories and states was the most contentious issue of the day. The Northern and Southern wings of both the Democrats and the Whigs adopted particular positions on such controversies as the Wilmot Proviso and the Compromise of 1850 that kept the public looking to the political realm for solutions. But that political status quo fell apart as

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    the Southern congressmen completely disagreed and went against it. The Compromise of 1850 was set to hopefully smooth these disputes over by supporting the idea of popular sovereignty‚ western lands having the right to determine by themselves whether they would be free or slave states. The Free-Soil Party also had a big impact. They opposed slavery’s expansion in the Western territories in the late 1840s and early 1850s. The Kansas-Nebraska Act and Dred Scott Case (1857) decision highlighted

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    the Confederacy‚ the Civil War was inevitable. During the latter part of the antebellum era‚ reforms such as the Compromise of 1850‚ the Fugitive Slave Act‚ and the Kansas-Nebraska Act fostered both immediate and long term changes to the lives of African Americans‚ returning free African Americans to their lives of slavery and forcing them to flee to Canada; however‚ the Missouri Compromise maintained

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    would be admitted as slave states or free states. To deal with this‚ Congress passed the Compromise of 1850 which basically made California free and allowed the people to pick in Utah and New Mexico. The ability of a state to decide whether it would allow slavery or not was called popular sovereignty. 2. Fugitive Slave Act - 1850 The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was passed as a part of the Compromise of 1850. This act forced any federal official who did not arrest a runaway slave liable to pay a

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    Stephen Douglas created a bill which made Kansas and Nebraska vote whether they were to be free or slave. The issue was the Missouri Compromise created the line for slavery the southern border of Missouri and Nebraska and Kansas‚ being north of the border‚ caused tension to increase between the North and South. In order to influence the vote in Kansas‚ Missourians purchased land in Kansas

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    Slavery’s Effect on Political Party’s During antebellum America there were a lot of different parties‚ acts‚ and compromises created due to slavery. This issue is what eventually led our nation to the Civil War. Although U.S. expansion during the 1850’s was not the main reason why the nation got torn apart‚ the increase of land was a catalyst to it. The fact that there was equilibrium in congress between the North and the South was basically the last hanging thread before war. After the conquest

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    present day Kansa and Nebraska that were supposed to be settled in the compromise of

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    lit the fuse leading to 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

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