Bleeding Kansas

West. If the West fell to slavery then slave states would be the majority of the nation, and vis versa. Their realization was acted out in violence as people from both sections flooded into Kansas to preserve their lifestyle with popular sovereignty as their motivation. Lincoln’s opinions on the dangers the Kansas-Nebraska could were described as “popular sovereignty opened the territories to bondage. (pg 96).” Again sectionalism increased as the Dred Scott decision was made. The result said…

Read pages 482-485 Focus Question (page 482): The admission of new states to the Union fueled the debate by interrupting the balance between the number of slave states and free states. According to the textbook, it states, “[T]erritory gained by the Mexican-American War threatened to destroy the balance.” In the senate this would mean one side would have more power than the other due to popular vote. Both the North and South were opposed to this idea resulting in the debate. Checkpoint (pg.…

states. John believed that the only way to end slavery was with violence, he and his followers killed many slave’s owners and chop their bodies into small pieces. He actions lead to the crisis of Bleeding Kansas, a series of violent protest which cause the death of many pro-slavery protesters in weather Kansas should be a free or a slave state. Brown later carried out a raid into the federal armory at Harpers to arm his followers, but it leads to his…

won the battle instead of losing. Longstreet is not the only general who think Lee plan won’t work. General John Hood was also one of the confederate general under Longstreet and he also like defensive strategies. Hood know that he will lose lots of his men if they fight head on. The book said “If I attack as ordered I will lose half my Division, and they will still be looking down our throats from that hill.” (pg. 201) This tell me that he doesn't want to lose his men and he think is a bad…

several issues involved in this compromise. The Compromise also didn't have a direct method by which states would hold the elections that decided the issue of slavery for their territory. So it was left to Congress to pass individual laws like the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Which will be discussed later in this paper. So the Compromise left the elections issue unresolved, examples are: 1.) The United States had just recently acquired a substantial amount of land because of its war with Mexico.…

When the delegates to the Constitutional Convention gathered in Philadelphia in 1787, it was already understood that slavery was an issue with the potential to tear the new republic apart. At the convention, with the three-fifths compromise a precedent of compromise was established. Over the next half century, every time the nation was faced with controversy over the “peculiar institution” the proverbial can was kicked down the road by Congressional compromises between the northern states where…

regions of the country. The West also played a role in the slavery dispute because new western states had to choose whether they would support slavery or abolition in Congress. The division between North and South continued to grow with events like Bleeding Kansas, the Dred Scott…

The westward expansion was one of Americans biggest desire to take the western territories that were claimed by other countries. Westward expansion played a pretty big role in the divisions during the 1840s and 1850s in the United States. The exploration of new land leads to an unknown abyss, to gain access to the western part of the country the white settlers had to pass through the Native Americans, or a horrific predator waiting to attack. Complication with Texas led to the Mexican War and…

The issue of slavery can be traced back to 1787 when the constitution was written. Delegates from the north opposed the idea of slavery being counted as votes in the Senate, while delegates from the south approved of it. The slavery issue was never vanished into thin air since it returned into the Unites States after the slave trade was legalized in 1808. A elevating question arose which was, what should the new territories that would admission to the United States be? slave or free state. This…

Specifically, the strengthening of the Fugitive Slave Act to please the South brought into question the founding values of the United States, because the act further showed that the United States was not doing anything to combat slavery. In 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Compromise of 1820 by allowing new states to determine their position on slavery with popular sovereignty. This certainly tied back…