Northern Territory

of the population of the South. This significance of this cannot be overstated. As the nation expanded the slave holding states would want to maintain their political power in Congress by introducing slavery into newly acquired territories. They also desired new territory due to fears soil depletion due…

Preface I chose to write the Long Road as it is a story I can relate to. As when I was younger as we were travelling to Northern Territory for a family holiday and we ran out of diesel. I think this could help others and make them aware of bringing extra fuel or petrol when going into an uncivilised area. I thought this would be a good topic to right on as it is a real Australian stereotype to be in the outback and run out of fuel. I would like to thank my Dad for this holiday wouldn’t have been…

helped eliminate the effects of the Supreme Court Decision on Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842). The court ruled the obligation of enforcement of the fugitive-slave clause of the Constitution was federal, not relying on states for law-enforcement. The Northern states created “personal liberty laws” to help in the prevention of recapturing runaway slaves by forbidding state officials to participate in the enforcement of the law or the use of their jails. The passage of the new Fugitive Slave Law…

new territory had the freedom to declare themselves as a free or slave state. Douglas believed that if popular sovereignty was correctly instated, the conflict over the existence of slavery would end and both the northern and southern states could coexist…

Nick Rubin Gaul U.S. History 30 January 2015 After the signing of the constitution, it is evident that the Northern and Southern halves of the United States developed along different lines. The South remained predominantly agrarian with an explosion in cotton production, while the North became more and more industrialized. Different social cultures and political beliefs developed. This led to disagreements on many issues, like tariffs, taxes, and states rights, but when vast new tracts of land…

In regard to the question of slavery in the western territories, Calhoun attested to the South’s willingness to defer to the constitution for resolution of the issue, stating, “[The slaveholding states] are willing to leave the whole subject where the constitution and the great and fundamental principles of…

Entertaining presidential ambitions party leader Stephen Douglas sought a solution that might win him both northern and southern support in a run for that office in 1860. Douglas got his opportunity in a debate with his 1858 Republican rival for US Senate which was Abraham Lincoln. Born in 1809 on the Kentucky frontier, Lincoln had accompanied his family from…

Roger B. Taney, declared that all blacks, slaves as well as free, were not and could never become citizens of the United States. The court also declared the 1820 Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, thus permitting slavery in all of the country's territories (McPherson). The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford. Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free states of Illinois and Wisconsin before moving back to the slave state of Missouri, appealed to the Supreme…

Although bloodshed between Northern abolitionists and pro-slavery Southerners in the Kansas Territory caused tensions, Kansas applied for statehood in 1857. The Lecompton Constitution, devised by pro-slavery forces, allowed the inhabitants of Kansas to vote for the Constitution with or without slavery. However, this proposal came with a clearly illogical twist, which evidently enraged anti-slavery Northerners: if the residents of the Kansas Territory should vote the constitution without…

all set out to achieve certain goals. Toktamis mentioned the goals of development, identity, and gaining territory (Toktamis 2009, 480). The previous mentioned goals were all in contingent to actions of many Kurdish and non-Kurdish actors in the region. Kumru Toktamis was able to describe his purpose in “This Part of the Globe is not Flat: the Paradox of the Turkish Relationship with Northern Iraq and the Dilemma of Kurdish Politics Across Borders” through the lens of Kurdistan. Toktamis is…