Northern Territory

Kansas-Nebraska Act revolved around slavery issues, which can be traced back to the earliest years of American colonization. With a Southern agrarian economy in contrast to a Northern industrial economy, the South felt threatened and felt that slavery was the only stable force that kept its economy grounded. Furthermore, prominent Southern and Northern politicians convinced the mainstream to follow their extremist and biased beliefs, further dividing the two regions. With slavery underlying the…

Its southern territories borders with the northern territories of the United States. Its Northern territories also borders with Alaska a state in the US. Canada is 9.9 million square kilometers and 891,163 of these kilometers are water. The country meets with three oceans which are the Atlantic Ocean, the Artic…

compromise a precedent of compromise was established. Over the next half century, every time the nation was faced with controversy over the “peculiar institution” the proverbial can was kicked down the road by Congressional compromises between the northern states where slavery was well on its way to extinction by the dawn of the nineteenth century and the slaveholding south whose plantations produced the young nation’s cash crops. In 1860, after the election of the first American president…

such an issue in North America. In the northern part of the future United States, slavery was becoming less and less of a thing after the Revolutionary War. Though it may have been less than the southern states, the emancipation process for New York and Pennsylvania were slower since they were larger states. By 1810, many of the slaves in the North had been freed. In the United States, the idea of antislavery…

nations on the North America continent increased as Texas eventually became a U.S state. There were positive and negative effects on the United States following the Mexican American War. The war was the first time the United States fought on foreign territory and occupied another nations capital. Their were several events which led to the start of the Mexican-American war, and there were also many things that…

of heated debates between the north and the south. Slavery was a growing moral issue with many northerns. The gradual opposition of slavery in the north had been moving across the nation throughout the nineteenth century. Among the many underlying forces that brought out the opposition of slavery, the major forces surfaced. While political differences and the differing moral viewpoints of the northern and southern states led to the opposition of slavery, the growing opposition of slavery was…

this paper, I will focus on the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project in Canada, which is mentioned and analyzed in both journals. Enbridge is a energy transport company that has proposed the Northern Gateway Project, which is a pipeline that connect Alberta and Pacific coast of British Columbia in order to transport bitumen extracted from the Alberta tar sands (McCreary 116). However, this pipeline need to cross more than 50 Aboriginal community territories for construction. The policy states that…

the Presidential election of 1860. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 “may have been the most important single event pushing the nation toward civil war” (McPherson 121). Author James McPherson stated that Kansas-Nebraska gave birth to the entirely northern Republican Party (121). The origin of Kansas-Nebraska can be found in the westward migration. “Settlers and land speculators had begun to cast covetous eyes on the fertile soil of the Kansas and…

All seven of the main major milestone events leading up to the Civil War each played an extensive part as to why our Country fell to secession in 1862. One great country, split into two parts..later becoming known as the Union and Confederate armies. Out of the seven major reasons I have chosen to focus on the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. The Kansas-Nebraska act began with the idea to build a transcontinental railroad to help further the economy of the United States by having the option to…

during this time period the U.S. was expanding westward and the addition of this new territory caused the two regions to further divide because of their strong feelings on whether or not slavery should expand into these newly added regions. The Age of Reform also occurred during the antebellum period. One of the…