Compromise

one of the most brutal wars for America, most Americans were killed than any other war. The cause of the civil war was because of the uneven power in the government, economics, differences, and the south seceding from the union. The Missouri Compromise was made so the states would stay half and half. 12 representatives were sent from slave states and 12 from free states as more states entered that did not need slaves so it got uneven. The south thought, any time we could be overthrown. The…

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…

wanted to establish plantation on such lands. This desire to expand slavery and to expand white culture westward would bring up the long silenced issue of slavery. While westward expansion sparked the talk of slavery, events such as the Mexican War, Compromise of 1850, the Kansas and Nebraska Act, and the Election of 1860 would eventually lead to the Civil War. Produced by westward expansion, the Mexican War would eventually put a spotlight the issue of slavery and put even more pressure on…

political leader for the Republican Party is Abraham Lincoln. The Republican Party supported the idea of industry and business. On the other hand, the Democratic Party was divided between the north and the south. This party was trying to create a compromise between the free and slave states. Southern Democrats was trying to persuade the Federal Government to protect slavery, to save their business, etc. Even though there was two political parties, this did not reduce the issue over…

The movement known as the Manifest Destiny is based on the ideology that America was destined by God to expand their territory over immense areas. Although the settlers might not had wanted to take this certain approach, their movement was mainly an aggressive one for the first half of the ninetieth century. Americans had expanded their boundaries through conflict and treaties. The Manifest Destiny also involved the calamitous removal of inhabitants from their homes. The significance of these…

The North and the South progressed transformational developments differently due to slavery, religion, politics, and economics. The South was very economically reliant on slavery. Many people in the South were farmers and grew crops such as rice, tobacco, and especially cotton. The Cotton Kingdom was growing because of the necessity of that product. Many southerners thought they needed more land because of the global demand for cotton. Many southerners believed that since the Cotton…

Midterm II When Jackson rose to presidency in 1828, the presidency was drastically changed. His presidency would bring the most unfortunate changes to the American Political System. Even though Jackson ran for presidency in 1824, he lost against Clay and John Quincy Adams. His National Republicans made a great comeback in the election of 1828 (Jones 275). Known as Old Hickory, he was very bitter and bizarre. He had skulls made out of Native American skulls. As soon as Old Hickory got elected,…

The civil war was one of the most intense and destructive wars the U.S have ever experienced, the war left over 640,000 soldiers dead, 476,000 wounded and 400,000 missing, this resulting in about 2% of the population dead. Whilst the war brought violence and destruction it also resolved two important questions that were unable to be resolved by the revolution these include; weather the United States was going to be made up of many independent states or a united nation with an independent…

between free and equal states. This was the beginning of sectionalism in America. In 1819, a problem occurred. Missouri’s 1819 request to become a slave state threatened to destroy the balance between slave states and free states (Clay, Missouri Compromise). At that time, Monroe who was president wrote, "The idea was that if the whole arrangement, to this effect, could be secured, that it would be better to adopt it, than break the union" (Monroe, James Monroe Papers: Series 1, General…

For many white southerners, Lincoln’s triumph placed their future in the hands of a party hostile to their region’s values and interests. Those who wanted the South to secede did not believe Lincoln would interfere with slavery in the states, but worried that his election indicated that Republican administrations in the future might do so. Southerners in the Deep South, fearing they would become a permanent minority in a nation ruled by their political enemies, instead decided to secede from the…