Missouri Compromise

Throughout America’s history, the United States has experienced many trials in tribulations regarding Economic, Social, and Moral issues. Even so, the bloodiest war in American history remains to be the Civil War, which took place fought 1861 to 1865. The war itself was ignited by issues between the Union and the Southern states that caused a divided between the regions of the north and south. The war itself illuminated the dark side of the institution within the American society, and as a…

William Still was born the 18th child of Levin and Charity Still. William Still lived a very interesting life. William Still had many jobs, abolitionist, writer, historian, civil rights activist and a conductor on the Underground Railroad. He was chairman of the Vigilance Committee of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. William Still wrote of his experiences as an Underground Railroad conductor and the refugee slaves he met along the way. In 1844 Still settled in Philadelphia and started…

Southerners and Northerners differed in state’s rights over the claims of the federal government, but this was not enough to wage war. However, when the controversy of slavery exploded, so did the Union. Abolitionists worked to make Northerners see the cruelty of slavery and take away sympathy from the south. There was a time when slavery was widely accepted by Northerners and Southerners alike. The U.S. even had proslavery leaders who always put slavery at the forefront, but everything changed…

Harriet Tubman was an African-American anti-slavery worker, and humanitarian. She was also a Union spy during the American Civil War. She was born into slavery but she escaped. During her life, she made nineteen trips. She helped more than 300 slaves escape.She used the Underground Railroad. When Tubman was a child in Dorchester County, Maryland, she was whipped and beaten by many different masters. When she was very young, an angry overseer threw a heavy metal weight at another slave. The…

The source, “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, was written by Harriet Jacobs. Harriet Jacobs lived from 1813-1897 and was born a slave in North Carolina. Shortly after she endured the events described in the source, she escaped her owner in 1835 and managed to flee to the North in 1842. Soon after, Harriet Jacobs decided to share her experiences in the early to mid-1800’s with people around the country. As a result, Harriet Jacobs published “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” as her…

Have you ever felt like you have been held captive by your parents and all they make you do is clean? Well back in the civil war times there were many slaves that Harriet Tubman tried to save from that awful experience. Harriet Tubman was a very impactful person during the civil war because she helped free over 750 slaves, and she helped heal injured soldiers during the war. The first reason Harriet was a very impactful person during the civil war was when she helped free slaves. Harriet…

Georgia, the southern state my fellow countrymen and I call home, should not secede from the Union due to the election of Lincoln or else we will be violating the pledge we made to support the Constitution; who are we to abandon our national engagements? (Stephens 4) “We are pledged to maintain the Constitution.” (Stephens 4) We cannot let the election of one man cause us to resist and rebel against the government that has given us a navy to protect us and secured borders. The Union has allowed…

The 1862 Homestead Act. A homestead bill passed the House in 1858 but was defeated by one vote in the Senate; the next year, a similar bill passed both houses but was vetoed by President James Buchanan. Before the Civil War, the southern states had regularly voted against homestead legislation because they correctly foresaw that the law would hasten the settlement of western territory, ultimately adding to the number and political influence of the free states. This opposition to the homestead…

rebelled during the Civil War. When our country became independent from England and set up its own government, there were many issues to be decided and resolved. The nation’s government was being formed from the ground up. With so many decisions, compromises, and disagreements in forming the government and the Constitution, the founding fathers decided to just ignore the issue of slavery. Most believed that slavery would just gradually go away, or at least believed that it could be dealt with…

The American Civil War, the bloodiest war in American history, was caused by political issues, military actions, and social and economic reasons between the Union (North) and the Confederacy (South). Specifically, slavery can be seen as the direct cause of the Civil War. David Goldfield, American historian, wrote “Both northerners and southerners recognized slavery as the immediate cause of the civil war.” On April 12, 1861, the Battle of Fort Sumter sparked the Civil War when Confederate…