Bleeding Kansas

Although the discovery of abundant natural resources and fertile land in the South might lead many dwellers of early America to think that they have a prosperous path ahead of them, tasks are not as easily accomplished as they are thought to be due to a number of issues that surfaced as Americans begin to form and put together an effective system to transform these raw materials into usable products. As slavery became a condemning issue, several main groups and political parties such as the…

A Disunited Nation Abraham Lincoln is viewed as the greatest president in American history. Lincoln was born poor in Kentucky, but he became a successful lawyer and politician. During his term in the antislavery Republican Party, he experienced heated debates with Stephen Douglas, which brought him to national attention. When he became president, he would lead the nation during one of its most difficult trials, the Civil War. There were many contributing factors which caused the Civil War to…

1850 Fugitive Slave Act, which prevented both Northerners and Southerners to assist runaway slaves—a law that disturbed even the individuals who had demonstrated little sensitivity for those looking to abolish the institution of slavery. The "Bleeding Kansas" occurrence of 1856 between proslavery gatherings and Free-Soilers stunned individuals in the North and in the South and showing exactly how emphatic the contradicting camps felt about their ideals. A certain circumstance that brought light…

In 1861, eleven southern states seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America, thus marking the start of the American Civil War. The war was not ended until 1865, and it became one of the most destructive war in the American history. On the other hand, it also shows how the northern states and the southern states were already diverging from one another in just less than a hundred years after the founding of the United States. From the period between 1740 and 1865, the…

The Revolution created the birth of America, while the Civil War would determine the kind of nation it would become. One of the most important wars in American history; fought between 1861 and 1865, The Civil war was a major event in which set the future of America. This war solved two major unanswered questions left from the Revolution regarding whether states were sovereign or individual and whether all men are created equal. The outcome of this war settled issues between the North and South,…

Purchase. That 530 million acres of land led to very impactful moments in american history like: Lewis and Clark’s Expedition in 1804, The Indian Removal Act, The Mexican War, The Trail of Tears, the questioning of slavery within the north, Bleeding Kansas, a decade of the gold rush, and many more. He is the one person that had the biggest impact on the Westward expansion because he began the entire thing. Thomas Jefferson had made the decision to pursue France for New Orleans, and what he…

The increasing hostility between the North and the South, and ultimately secession of the South and the Civil War was unavoidable because both regions constantly bumped heads regarding slavery and states’ rights. When trying to decide how to resolve the issues, neither could produce an efficient and solid plan without offending each other. From proposing the Wilmot Proviso post-Mexican War to the election of Lincoln, the country was slowly slipping into an uneasy environment. The South…

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Through the birth of a young nation, sectionalist tensions among various issues sculpted and shaped the road to the Civil War. Factions between the North and the South arose due to a long-term conflict concerning the issue of slavery and competing ideas in several aspects of society. For the South, slavery shaped and impacted social, political, economical, and laboral facets of society. The South argued to obtain the right to slavery free from federal interference, while basing their argument on…

The Civil War claimed the lives of over 620,000 soldiers; these statistics were not equaled by the combined toll of any other American conflicts until the War in Vietnam. The devastation of the battles was received throughout the country and on both sides of the conflict. Due to the drastic economic differences in economies in the North, with its booming industry, and South, which had mainly cotton plantations, the Civil War was initiated. The opposing moral views of slavery, and therefore…