1860

Slavery as a whole has had major effects in the Unites States. In the 1850’s slavery was an issue that politicians often had many compromises. However, as time progressed, politicians of the North and South were unable to compromise about slavery expansion into new territories. There have been many short, middle and long range causes that led to the disagreements in slavery expansion. The Missouri Compromise, taken place in 1821 was the beginning of what seemed to be, the calming of our…

Throughout the 1860s to early 1900s, forms of entertainment were created and enjoyed by many of the world. These forms of entertainment could be musicals, variety shows, musical comedies, and so on, and these shows could reflect the society during that period of time. Observations about a society’s culture can be drawn from many sources such as Burlesque and Vaudeville. These two forms of variety shows emerged in American within twenty years of each other, but it had vastly different…

Knowing that African and Voodoo religion had been established in America when African slaves landed in Jamestown in 1619 28 we listen to Jessie Gaston Mulira: “The number of voodoo worshippers increased as more Africans arrived, first as indentured servants and later as slaves directly from Africa or through the West Indies…..With the influx of more Africans, voodoo became entrenched in the American colonies and later in the United States.” 29 Of course our keen interest is more fixed…

During the antebellum era, the multitude of pressing issues of slavery, representation and other controversies were settled by way of compromise. But by 1860, this was no longer feasible because so many disagreements and heat between the North and the South had occurred. Consequently, the hullabaloo led to civil war. Though manifest destiny was becoming a reality via westward expansion, it triggered the start of disagreements slavery would bring. In 1819 the United States contained eleven…

their visual appearance to some extent to expressionist painting, spirit photography of the 1860s, the story styles of the Grand Guignol Theater Company and Gothic writing. They draw upon the fables and legends of Europe, and render creatures into physical structure. Spirit photography is the act of utilizing double exposures or superimpositions to portray apparitions on film. It was mainstream from the 1860s onwards not just among Spiritualists, who may have trusted the pictures were genuine…

Parish today. William A. Bisland and John R. Bisland traveled with their families from Louisiana to New York, through the Port of Havana to the Port of New York aboard the Steamship DeSoto on May 19, 1860. US Census data offers information regarding the three Bisland brothers and their households in 1860. Records for Terrebonne Parish, 7th Ward show William A., age 34, listed as a Planter; wife Caroline, age 28; son Calvin, age 10; son, Baker, age 9; daughter, Marguerite, age 7; and daughter…

Southerners, on the other hand, were eying the expansive western lands with the notion of expanding their plantations and, of course, bringing their slaves with them. A series of compromises kept the situation in a tentative balance until 1860. Election Upsets Then came the 1860 presidential election. Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln ran on a platform that called for the prohibition of slavery's expansion in the West. Southerners watched nervously; they saw the Republicans as a bunch of…

East of Eden is a novel written by acclaimed author, John Steinbeck. The story follows two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons, and their intertwined lives in the years between the American Civil War in the 1860s and the Great Depression in the 1930s. Throughout the novel, the author recurrently uses religion through a series of biblical allusions that in turn reflect the context of the novel. In order to explore how context has informed the use of religion in Steinbeck’s East of Eden, one…

also making the “Reconstruction Plan” which is known as the 10% plan. Southerners had accept ban on slavery, which led them to take a loyalty oath to the United States. The loyalty oath is a pledge of allegiance. When the 10% of the voters in the 1860 election did this, the state could readmitted to the Union. Lincoln wanted to rewrite the nation. Many senators thought Lincoln's 10% plan was too merciful, so senators came up the “Wade Davis Plan.” Only Southerners who swore…

outlaws and bandits from the south so they don’t have to live in fear. They want laws in place to protect their property and a government in place to enforce them. Slaves were a large part of the property owned by the residents of Guadalupe County. By 1860 the number of slaves in Guadalupe County is just over 1,700 making up the workforce in the county. The Texas economy is so heavily dependent on slavery that the issue became a vital factor in the decision for secession. Since the annexation…