Bleeding Kansas

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    Title The President's bad day,our big conflict Me and my six sisters Claudia,Jadyn,McKenna,Porshea,Shelby and rylee all live in the same house together in Kansas City and we work at menorah hospital.We are all surgeons.Kinda.McKenna is a Cardiothoracic surgeon Porshea and Jadyn are OBGYN´s me and Shelby are Orthopedic surgeons And rylee is a Neurologist .This is our story. ¨You guys hurry up¨, i said what Claudia asked curiously do you need a ride ya she cried alright let's roll is said as…

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    The Missouri compromise had prohibited slavery north of 36 degrees do north, but groups of settlers in Kansas who had come from slave states, like Missouri, believed slavery should be permitted in the territory. Other settlers were from the North and wanted to make the area a free state. The result was upheaval and rioting. The fighting carried east by abolitionist…

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    John Brown said before being hung,“(I) Never intended murder, treason, or destruction of property or the excite or incite the slave to rebellion or make insurrection.” During 1857, John Brown, an abolitionist, was raising money to help abolish slavery in the South, also to get an uprising of the slaves and to create a rebellion.The main plan of the raid was to get the slaves to join his rebellion, but it failed as a raid. Even though it failed as a raid it created a greater divide between the…

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    he could to make it equal between the blacks and whites. Although many people called Brown crazy, his black associates never did. Furthermore, Harpers Ferry wasn’t Brown’s first attack. In 1857, his allies killed many proslavery settlers in “Bleeding Kansas.” Researchers differentiate on whether the killings should be seen as murders or acts of war. African-Americans see John Brown as a model of “self-sacrifice.” Writings that had been found indicated that Brown had a mental illness. The mental…

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    “Times have changed and they’ve changed in this case for the better”, by Ann Gutmann. This quote reflects the individual’s experiences being compared between a Native American female and an African American female. Charlotte Forten was an African-American girl that attended a private school in New England. Mary Brave Bird, a Native American woman, raised by her grandparents on a South Dakota reservation. As an activist, she endured and encountered some violent events and was able to survive…

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    and the Mexican War. The thing that was in his way was the divisive issue of slavery. Douglas was a man in favor of the preservation of the Union and worked to fulfill that goal by leading the fight for the Compromise of 1850 and by introducing the Kansas Nebraska Act in which he fought for popular sovereignty of the states to decide whether or not that state was a slave or free state. Douglas was a man against slavery and hoped for its downfall one day but sacrificed his personal belief for…

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    The American Revolution (1775-1783) The 13 colonies rejected Britain 's impose taxes and authority in order to found the united states of America. Expanding into a world war, France and the Netherlands joined America, bringing them resources and military power. The American colonies were ultimately able to gain independence from Great Britain in 1783. Battle of Yorktown (September-October 1781) When General Cornwallis seized Yorktown and Gloucester, General Washington marched from New York to…

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    Long-Term Effects Of Slavery

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    1. Describe and explain how slavery affected the economic, social, and political development of the South during the first half of the nineteenth century. Why did Slavery become the essential difference between the North and the South? What are the long-term effects of slavery? Answer Black people were brought to America from Africa during 17th, 18th, and 19th century. They were forcibly transported to Atlantic in slave ships and sold to work on sugar and cotton farms in the southern states. Due…

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    eventually transformed into the Republican Party. While The Compromise of 1850 aimed to relieve tensions with the introduction of popular sovereignty, it alarmed the free-soilers with the possibility of slavery moving west. With instances such as Bleeding Kansas, the political climate of the United States took a frightening new turn. Thomas R. R. Cobb referred to Lincoln as “one of the most objectionable and fanatical of its leaders” to display his frustration towards these changes on Capitol…

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    lasted only four years. Southern appeals for enforcement of the Fugitive Slave act so that slaves who moved to the North had to be returned to their masters. On the other hand, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin impassioned debates over “bleeding Kansas.” Extremist and underground railroad which helped slaves to run to a free country appeared as the confrontation against slavery by north and south became fierce. Ironically however, most of northerner did not care about slaves before John…

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