Connecticut Compromise

Although many historians believe that sectional differences on the issue of slavery caused the Civil War; Holt argues that the actual cause of the civil was the political crisis of the 1850s. Holt argues if sectional differences over slavery or even slavery itself caused the Civil War, then why didn’t the war start earlier? The tension between the North and South existed almost 75 years; therefore slavery alone could not have caused the Civil War (402). Holt proposes a different idea; he argues…

and compromise among individuals and governments can sometimes have negative consequences for a nation. The biggest conflict causing the Civil War was popular sovereignty. Popular sovereignty is a law saying that the people living in a territory should be free of federal interference in determining their issues, mostly with slavery. Popular sovereignty is a major cause of the Civil War because it caused the bloodshed of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and caused more of a crisis in the Compromise of…

and the South In 1819 Missouri had a big enough population to be admitted into the union. However Missouri requested to be admitted as a slave state which would disrupt the balance in representation in the Senate. Congress enacted the Missouri Compromise which would admit Missouri as a slave state, admit Maine as a free state as well as outlawing slavery north of 36°30. This was criticized by many southerners because it established the principle that Congress could make laws regarding slavery;…

I agree with the statement that “the American Constitution could not stay pure in the hands of imperfect human beings” because throughout much of United States history, the issue of slavery surfaced and resurfaced time and time again once people started questioning the morality of its implementation. The matter still had a major presence in the public and politics even during the Reconstruction Era that followed the abolition of slavery. The reason conflict over slavery manifested itself and…

The Underground Railroad was a large network of people, they helped the fugitive slaves escape to the North and Canada. It was not run by one person or one organization, when actually it consisted of many individuals who had limited knowledge of the whole operation. The idea began near the end of the eighteenth century when George Washington complained one of his slaves escaped by the help of “a society of Quakers, formed for such purposes.” Around 1831 it was dubbed the Underground Railroad for…

1. If you could go back in time and take control of any of the civilizations we have discussed in class, which one would you choose? If I could go back in time it would’ve to be The Industrial Revolution and Slavery. Why? With all of the inventions being made, cotton was a cash crop in America. And with slaves being uses to pick the cotton by hand. Cotton was being produced faster by less people. Slaves were release back in the slave trade or could move to the city to get jobs and jobs. But due…

The Civil War was the largest conflict in the Western United States prior to the issues of slavery, westward expansion, and states’ rights. The torrid issue on the table that lead to the Civil war was slavery. There was major differences between the slave and free states over the power of government to abolish slavery. The Union, which is the North felt it would be best to abolish slavery and the Confederacy which is the South, thought it would be a better plan to hold onto slavery so that their…

When faced with war, people need to know what they’re fighting for. This is something that many people confuse these days. When asked what the Civil War was about, the majority say it was about slavery. They wanted to stop slavery right? That is a tricky question. The main reason for the war was to keep the Union together, but slavery was later added to things people fought this bloody war. It has been a problem people have been arguing about since the Revolutionary War. The world, at many…

between the anti and the pro-slavery states in order to gain economic and political advantage. However, in 1820, the congress was embroiled in the dispute over the way to devide the acquired territories into slave and free states. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was a kind of an agreement between the two sides (the pro and the anti-slavery sections) with…

commonly known as the three-fifths compromise, in the Constitution came about as a result of arguments about how the framers were going to decide how many seats each state got in the House of Representatives. It was decided that seats would be granted based on population size. As would obviously benefit them, the south wanted their slaves counted as people in the population count. Those who opposed slavery only wanted free persons to be counted. The compromise reached counted slaves as…