Compromise of 1850

Abraham Lincoln’s speech, A House Divided, raised some questions at the time of delivery, but ultimately gave the citizens of the United States the leader that they would need to preserve the country. Stephen A. Douglas supporting the idea of popular sovereignty made Lincoln’s idea that the union must either endorse slavery or abolish slavery appear? altogether foolish. The idea of popular sovereignty was the easy way out of the slavery issue during the nineteenth century. Popular sovereignty…

Lincoln and Douglas Debates The Lincoln and Douglas debates of 1858 were seven debates between Abraham Lincoln who was a republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois. Stephen Douglas who was a senator in the Democratic Party candidate. During the time United State Senators were elected by state legislatures. They were trying to win control of the Illinois legislature. They decided to hold one debate in each of the nine congressional districts of Illinois. The first debate was…

Dred Scott, a slave, was bought by a man (Sanford) who later moved them to a free state. Scott claimed that he was free based on the grounds that he had been living in a free state as a slave. Sanford said, legally he was a resident of a slave state, so he was not free. The Court ruled that African Americans were not and never would be citizens. Therefore were not entitled to the freedom Scott was seeking, and he could not pursue legal action against his owner as he was attempting. Scott sued…

Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin Eli Whitney was born in Westboro, Massachusetts on December 8, 1765. His father owned a farm on which Whitney had a small shop while he was a teenager. During the Revolutionary War, he made nails, which had become hard to find (U-S-History.com). After the war, Whitney continued to make items in his shop, which included women hatpins (Biogrphy.com). He graduated from Yale in 1792 at the age if twenty-seven years old and was considering becoming a lawyer. After…

its name because of its actives that were carried out in secret using darkness or disguise. It was helpful because it helped thousands of slaves escape bondage. An estimate of one hundred thousand slaves escaped bondage in the south between 1810 and 1850.. The leading slaves were Harriet Tubman and Willam Still . “When Northern towns rallied around freed slaves and refused compensation, yet another brick was set into the foundation of southern secession .Tubman is sometimes referred to as the…

territories to vote if they desired to allow slavery or abolish slavery. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was introduced by Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois who wanted to build a transcontinental railroad through Chicago. However, it violated the Missouri compromise which prohibited the practice of slavery on the Louisiana Purchase north of the latitude 36°30′. With the purpose of increasing votes and winning a majority, the north and south crossed the border into the two territories to vote for or…

of the United States. The new edition to the country caused a problem, however. A decision had to be made as to which parts of the new territory would be slave states and which would be free states. In the years prior to 1820 when the Missouri Compromise was passed, tensions concerning slavery grew across the country. When applying for statehood, Missouri caused a lot of conflict between the north and southern states. Before Missouri became a state, the number of states in the north equaled…

Stephen Douglas proposed a law called “Popular Sovereignty”, this law lets people from territories like Kansas and Nebraska vote whether or whether not slavery was allowed in the territories. (Mr. Adreon’s Notes) This act reversed the Compromise of 1820. The Compromise of 1820 said no slavery was allowed North of latitude 36°30. Before popular sovereignty, Kansas and Nebraska had to be a free territory therefore, getting more votes for the North in the senate. This infuriated the South.…

Imagine a world where we still have slavery and we had people who were forced to work because of the color of their skin. Harriet tubman grew up a slave, while she was a slave she was beaten. As soon as she got out of slavery she had decided she did not want the future generations to go through the same. She decided to go into the army and become a nurse and a spy, she did this because she knew land and she wanted to help end the war. Harriet Tubman proves herself to be a hero by saving…

Introduction Even after the gaining of independence in 1956 that established Sudan as its own country, conflicting ideals of the people of Sudan led to civil wars that resulted in South Sudan separating from North Sudan and establishing itself as an independent country on July 9, 2011 (CIA, 2016). Because of the different influences that affected the different tribes, also fighting began to occur between ethnic groups in Southern Sudan during and after the civil war with North Sudan. I am going…