American History is the one thing that makes this county more unique than most. We have everything from the American Revolution to the Civil War, but I am going to disscus a time that made America change for the better. Slavery may not seem like it was for the better, but it changed the way this great nation thought about many things. Slavery, to many people, started to seem wrong and unholy, in the 1830’s to 1850’s many believed that it needed to be stopped, protests and had spread across the nation creating a divide. Some people believed that slavery needed to be stopped, whereas others believed that slavery was for the greater good and that it was for the slave’s benefits, which caused this great nation the be divided and fight against one
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In the 1830’s to the 1850’s it was believed that slavery was some wheat a right of passage. It was never seen as wrong to many people because of the white supremacist ideology. We know this when we read, “I have supposed the black man, in his present state, might not be so; but it would be hazardous to affirm, that, equally cultivated for a few generations, he would not become so.” What it is basically saying is that at the moment colored people are less than the whites that they do not matter as much, but with time it is possible black slaves to become like whites, to be one the same level as the whites. So we are seeing the white supremacist ideology when it come to this, that white is better than black. It was once believe that it was okay to make the weaker slaves and not have to worry about the side effects that it might have on the following generations. We start to see that nation split when it comes to this, those who say that slavery is wrong and those who say that slavery is good. There will always be a fight between right and wrong, no matter what the fight is about it will always be …show more content…
We know this when we read, “The Compromise of 1850 accomplished what it set out to do – it kept the nation united – but the solution was only temporary.” The peace between the nation was very fragile at this point because people were choosing which side they were going to stand with. It was ripping the nation apart and it was also making families turn against one another, that is why many times it was brother fighting against brother. There was also other thing that tried to make the nation stick together, but it seemed like nothing was going to work. We understand this when it says, “The slave revolt that most terrified white slaveholders was that led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831.” It seemed that when the threads of the nation was tested it was creating more problems than it was actually solving. The slave’s were starting to revolt which was causing more tension and causing the people of the nation to fear what was going to happen and how they were going to hold together their nation. There was also the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which caused more harm than good. We are able to figure this out when we read, “The Kansas-Nebraska Act opened all new territories to slavery by asserting the rule of popular sovereignty over congressional edict, leading pro- and anti-slavery forces to battle it out (with much bloodshed) in the new
In the 1830’s to the 1850’s it was believed that slavery was some wheat a right of passage. It was never seen as wrong to many people because of the white supremacist ideology. We know this when we read, “I have supposed the black man, in his present state, might not be so; but it would be hazardous to affirm, that, equally cultivated for a few generations, he would not become so.” What it is basically saying is that at the moment colored people are less than the whites that they do not matter as much, but with time it is possible black slaves to become like whites, to be one the same level as the whites. So we are seeing the white supremacist ideology when it come to this, that white is better than black. It was once believe that it was okay to make the weaker slaves and not have to worry about the side effects that it might have on the following generations. We start to see that nation split when it comes to this, those who say that slavery is wrong and those who say that slavery is good. There will always be a fight between right and wrong, no matter what the fight is about it will always be …show more content…
We know this when we read, “The Compromise of 1850 accomplished what it set out to do – it kept the nation united – but the solution was only temporary.” The peace between the nation was very fragile at this point because people were choosing which side they were going to stand with. It was ripping the nation apart and it was also making families turn against one another, that is why many times it was brother fighting against brother. There was also other thing that tried to make the nation stick together, but it seemed like nothing was going to work. We understand this when it says, “The slave revolt that most terrified white slaveholders was that led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831.” It seemed that when the threads of the nation was tested it was creating more problems than it was actually solving. The slave’s were starting to revolt which was causing more tension and causing the people of the nation to fear what was going to happen and how they were going to hold together their nation. There was also the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which caused more harm than good. We are able to figure this out when we read, “The Kansas-Nebraska Act opened all new territories to slavery by asserting the rule of popular sovereignty over congressional edict, leading pro- and anti-slavery forces to battle it out (with much bloodshed) in the new