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- 221: Civil War 8
- ... where some 600,000 men died grew a greater sense of nationalism than is today, unrivalled around the world. The American Civil War is interpreted differently by many historians but most see the catalyst as slavery, the motivation as economic, the outcome was a unified national identity. Slavery was a major issue that triggered the American Civil War. Slavery started out, as a few individual slaves coming from England that were generally white. This changed however, and soon the Southern slave traders began 'stealing' blacks to take back to the South. The slaves ...
- 222: Why the Civil War was Unavoidable
- ... issues. The Union and Confederate states were then forced to battle in the Civil War to solve the problems. The three main conflicts that started the war were, balance of power, taxes on imports and slavery. The balance of power had a big impact on the attitudes of the South causing a difference. At the time, the federal government was changing in that the northern states were becoming more populated and ... States plans. Tensions were mounting and emotions were stirring causing the sides to differ from one another even more. The most important and crucial reason why the Civil War was unavoidable was the issue of slavery. Because of the fact that the South did not have the access to machines that we do now, they depended on slaves to do all of their agricultural work that was so crucial to the ... do all the work themselves. It required the help of the South in order to take care of the cotton industry and other farm industries that were so important to the South. By being against slavery, the North set up one of the most important wars in US history because the issue of slavery was probably the biggest sectional difference that caused the war and made it too unavoidable. There ...
- 223: Runaways and the Abolition Movement: The Underground Railroad
- Runaways and the Abolition Movement: The Underground Railroad The Underground Railroad was the most dramatic protest action against slavery in American history. The operation of helping slaves escape using underground networks began in the 1500s. Which was later helped by the abolitionist activity of the 1800s. The route of the underground rail road was ... Mexico, and the Caribbean. From 1830's to 1865, the Underground Railroad reached its peak as abolitionists and sympathizers who condemned human bondage aided large numbers of bondsmen to freedom. They not only called for slavery destruction, but also acted to assist its victims. The most intriguing feature of the Underground Railroad was its lack of formal organization. Its existence often relied on concerted efforts of helpful individuals of various ethnics and religions groups who helped slaves escape from slavery. Usually agents hid or destroyed their personal journals to protect themselves and the runaways. Only recently researchers have discovered the work created by courageous agents such as David Ruggles, Calvin Fairbank, Josiah Henson, and ...
- 224: The Northwest Ordinance of 1787
- ... provided for the creation of not less than 3 and no more than 5 separate states. It also outlined its plan for the advancement of education, the maintenance of civil liberties and the exclusion of slavery. (www.comptons.com) The first written support for education from the federal government was in Article 3: Encouragement of Education. It was written that every town should reserve land for the maintenance of public ... especially big thing, normally the local magistrate would be the judge, jury and executioner. The law assured citizens of certain basic rights and freedoms, including religious freedom, the protection of property and the prohibition of slavery and involuntary servitude. (Northwest Ordinance packet, 38-39,42-43) It was written that in the said territories, no person shall ever be molested of his mode of worship or religious sentiments. This was a ... government interfering, in my belief it was actually an attempt to prevent smuggling and under the table things which the government could not tax and make a profit out of. (Northwest Ordinance packet, 38-39) Slavery was still ongoing during the creation of the Ordinance. However the creators wanted to have no slavery in the new territories. They wrote There shall be no slavery nor involuntary servitude. However if an ...
- 225: Harriet Tubman
- Harriet Tubman Even before Harriet Tubman was born she had a powerful enemy. Her enemy wasnt a person or even a country; it was the system known as slavery. It is known that at least two grandparents were captured by slave traders and brought to North America from the Slave Coast of Africa during the 18th century. Because slaves were not allowed to read ... that would later allow historians to piece together all the parts of her life story. But we do know that she was one of historys great heroines. With courage and determination, she escaped from slavery herself and then led more than 300 slaves to safety and freedom. When the Civil War began, she tirelessly scouted for the Union army and continued to free her people. Many of these newly freed slaves became new recruits for the Union army. Tubman rose from slavery to become one of the most remarkable stories in the history of the United States of America. About 40 years before the Civil War began, a slave child, Araminta. Like others born into slavery, ...
- 226: Abraham Lincoln: Biography
- Abraham Lincoln: Biography Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was very important to the past history of our country. He helped to abolish slavery in this country and kept the American Union from splitting apart during the Civil War. At 22, he moved to New Salem, Illinois. With his gift for swapping stories and making friends, he became quite ... spare time, he taught himself law and became a lawyer. In 1847, he was elected to the U.S. Congress, but returned to his law practice until 1858, when his concern about the spread of slavery prompted him to return to national politics and run for the U.S. Senate. Lincoln rose to greatness from a humble beginning. Born in 1809 in a log cabin in Kentucky, Lincoln spent most of his childhood working on the family farm. He had less than a year of school but managed to educate himself by studying and reading books on his own. He believed that slavery and democracy were fundamentally incompatible. In an 1858 speech, he said: What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independance? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coats, our army and ...
- 227: Beloved-water Motif
- ... baby girl ahead to her mother-in-law. On the way to freedom, a white girl named Amy Denver helped Sethe deliver her daughter, who she later names Denver. About a month after Sethe escapes slavery, schoolteacher found her and tried to bring her back. In fear that her children would be brought back into slavery, Sethe killed her older daughter and attempted to kill Denver and her boys. Sethe, along with Denver, was sent to prison and spent three months there. Buglar and Howard, her two sons, eventually ran away ... re-birth for Sethe because not only does she feel refreshed and anew, but this also signifies her freedom from Sweet Home. Morrison also uses the motif of water to represent freedom and escape from slavery. For Paul D., water was an essential part of obtaining his freedom from the prison camps in Alfred, Georgia. It rained. In the boxes the men heard the water rise in the trench and ...
- 228: Frederick Douglass' Dream for Equality
- ... Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison, dating from the early 1850's when Douglass had repudiated Garrisonian Disunionism. Garrisonians supported the idea of disunion. Disunion would have relieved the North of responsibility for the sin of slavery. It would have also ended the North's obligation to enforce the fugitive slave law, and encourage a greater exodus of fugitive slaves from the South. (161,162 Perry) Douglass did not support this idea because it would not result in the complete abolition of slavery. Blacks deserved just as much freedom as whites. He believed that the South had committed treason, and the Union must rebel by force if necessary. Astonished by Garrison's thoughts, Douglass realized that abolition was ... is the freedom and hope if all great things are privilege only to the whites? Douglass resolved never again to risk himself to betrayal. Troubled, Douglass did not lose faith in his beliefs of abolishing slavery. However, he did reinvent his thinking. Douglass eventually made his way with what amounted to the applied ideas of Alexis de Tocqueville and Fancis Grund, both of which were writing at the time when ...
- 229: Civil War
- ... didn't have a good relationship already and there were many issues that they didn't agree on each other such as Clay's compromise, Fugitive slave act, Pottawatomie massacre, etc. The Southern states supported slavery because the slave population held more than 40 percent of the entire population and also they needed slavery for their industrialization. Therefore, if they freed all the slaves, someone would predict, many whites would have no jobs and many things would be up-side-down. As the result, controlling over slaves was very important for the Southern. But the Northern were opponent of slavery since the slavery population took less than 10 percent of the entire population and Southern states were already free. Then something really happened when Abraham Lincoln, a known opponent of slavery, was elected president. ...
- 230: The Missouri Compromise
- ... proposed the Missouri compromise. This arranged it that while Missouri was admitted as a Slave state, Maine was also admitted as a free state. It also created an imaginary line along the 36o latitude, where slavery was allowed below it but prevented above it. However they limited themselves by only applying the Compromise to lands gained in the Louisiana purchase. This led to conflict after the Mexican war in which America ... admitted as a free state. Once again Henry Clay came up with a compromise to resolve this conflict. California would indeed be admitted as free while the rest of the Southwest territories would decide the slavery issue by popular sovereignty. It would also abolish slavery altogether in Washington DC and initiate a stronger fugitive slave law to appease the South. This last concession angered people in the North however. Free blacks were concerned as now a Southerner could accuse ...
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