Connecticut Compromise

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…

North and South eliminated the possibility of an effective compromise. The Civil War became inevitable as domestic tensions over westward expansion reached a zenith in the 19th century. As Hickman stated, two societies with opposing…

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…

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…

the Civil War is the issue of states’ rights, and if slaveholding should even be permitted within the Union. The debate over which powers belonged to the states and to the federal government rose again as the nation moved westward. The Missouri Compromise in 1820 only provided temporary success in alleviating the issue at hand. Soon, abolitionist groups appeared in the North, causing Southerners to feel threatened, and that their way of life was under attack. Moreover, Nat Turner’s Rebellion in…

Sheldon Hackney was a historian of the post-Civil War South. Hackney was the protégé of historian C. Vann Woodward who specialized in the American South and wrote Origins of the New South. Hackney was the first in twenty years to challenge Woodward’s ideas that he expressed in his article. Because Hackney worked closely with Woodward, Hackney was able to know Woodward’s thoughts, ideas, and research first hand and apply this information to his article “Origins of the New South in Retrospect.”…

Constitution, which is known for the return of runaway slaves. Many of the Northern states wanted overcome the Fugitive Slave Act. Some of the jurisdictions passed liberty laws for slaves to have a jury trial before they could be removed. The Compromise of 1850 was passed by Congress after the Mexican-American War. It was even more strict than the Fugitive Slave Law. It addressed problems regionally, by making officials from the free states responsible for aiding slave catchers.…