Compromise

She was born in Maryland in 1820 and escaped slavery in 1849. She led hundreds of slaves to the north in seek of freedom using the Underground Railroad, an elaborate network of housed that supported the freedom of slaves. She was the most famous "conductor" on this railroad. During the Civil War, Harriet was the first woman to lead an armed expedition in war and liberated more than 700 slaves in South Carolina. Eli graduated from Yale College, formerly known as Yale University, in 1792.…

Many issues surrounding the Constitution of the United States divided the nation prior to the Civil War. Following are some of these issues and how they relate to the coming of the Civil War, how the document relates to the Constitution as of 1861, and how the Constitution relates to the issue today. The letter from Thomas Jefferson to John Holmes relates to the coming of the Civil War by Jefferson explaining to Holmes that there is tension in the states that cannot be easily dealt with. He…

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…

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…

The underground railroad was an escape route for runaway slaves. It got 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…

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…

1. The phrase Cotton king is meant how the good of cotton dominated not only the Southern economy but also the entire country economy. Due of the fact that Southern leaders were aware that the northern states were dependent to the raw good of cotton in order to manufacture clothing. If war ever break out between the North and South the northern factories would inevitably close and possibly starve and form mobs. 2. The dominance of cotton in the Southern lands led to a dangerous dependence on a…

When thinking about America people think about the lad of the free, where dreams can come true. No one thinks about the change that America has gone through especially political, economic, and socially between 1776 to 1870. This is where we can see the most change happen over a short time period. With the debt the George Washington had left over from his term it was Thomas Jefferson’s plan to make America finally stable. With Washington serving four terms in total leaving behind debt from the…