Northwest Ordinance

The civil war was a devastating American war that pitted the north against the south, resulting in over 600,000 American casualties, making it the deadliest war in United States history. The war officially lasted from 1861-1865, but animosity between the Union north and Confederate south had been building up for decades leading to the war. The causes of the civil war are numerous and complex, but the four basic ideas behind it were their differing economies, slavery, states rights, and secession…

Darshan History 1301 Joseph Davey Oct 30 2016 Slavery in U.S. focusing on Lincoln and Stephen speeches The African slavery started in North America in 1619 at Virginia. In 1936, American built the 1st slave ship launched from Massachusetts. The proslavery and antislavery had the battle in out frequently with violent outcomes in making the opposition expand to slavery to became the defining issue for the Republic Party. Both Lincoln and Stephen speeches’ had a historical explanation of the…

Before the Civil War the United States (U.S.) experienced a time period that was highlighted by increased sectionalism called the antebellum period. The antebellum time period was from 1819 to 1860 and economic, political, and social issues started to divide the various regions of the U.S. This sectionalism, or loyalty towards a particular region, started to develop between the North and South over the practice of slavery. Also during this time period the U.S. was expanding westward and the…

Documents such as the Northwest Ordinance and the Constitution set precedents for legislation that the United States and countries around the world would follow in attempts to establish effective and efficient governments. The U.S. Constitution served as inspiration and a template for…

By the middle of the eighteenth century, the United States consisted of thirteen colonies ruled by British government. The northern colonies were founded by people who were religious and believed in strong work ethic whereas the southern colonies were Puritans who settled in New England to gain religious freedom from Britain while the first colonists of the southern colonies were Englishmen. The first settlers of the west were Scots-Irish people who settled in deep-soiled Pennsylvania when the…

Northern slaves were freed from the literal chains of their owners. Unfortunately, southern slaves would not be freed until after the Civil War. Although slavery continued to dominate the South, slavery was prohibited in new territories under the Northwest Ordinance in 1787, which states, “There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in said territory”. In contrast to the progressive changes made by free, white women and northern slaves, the Loyalists or “Tories” also experienced a…

In “Founding Brothers,” Joseph J. Ellis analyzes the key highlights of post-revolutionary America. Through a time a revolutionary concepts running at an all time high in the new United States, the key foundation of America, the founding fathers, established the course the country would follow even into the status quo. To fully understand the time period that preceded modern America, Ellis follows the life of America’s framers to see the relationships and conflicts that set the foundation for…

The American Revolution was caused by discontent among the colonists. The recent French and Indian War led Britain to tax the colonists, to relieve the debt from that it has accumulated, but did so without the colonists’ representation in Parliament because they were inferior, therefore, unequal. The British control before and during the American Revolution made the colonists unequal, which made them want a political democracy, equal society and a free economy, although the desired changes only…

On July 4, 1776, news was spread that America was declaring independence and no longer wanted to be under Britain’s control; thus leading to an American Revolution. In order to avoid the way Britain had control over America, America made sure to not be politically same as Britain was, because it was a huge factor that played into becoming independent. Women and slave roles had been different during this time period because they were beginning to gain a few more rights/freedoms. Although during…

In the mid 1800s, the desire for public education began to strive, as many American children were not given the oppurtunity to attend public school and learn vital information that would be crucial to their adulthood. Horace Mann, also known as “the father of American public schools,” led this movement for public education. Mann was born in 1796 and grew up with his poor family in Franklin, Massachusettes. Throughout his childhood, Mann would go to the Franklin public library, with the few…