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- 471: Profiles Of Courage
- ... caused his party-mates and constituents to re-think their view of the Massachusetts Senator. Daniel Webster, House of Representatives member, was a Federalist and was most famous for is "Seventh of March" speech. While slavery seemed to be the main issue of the time, the speech spoke mainly of preserving the Union. Although he was opposed to slavery, he seldom brought it up in his political activities. These pressures haunted him around the time he was fighting to be re-elected. Thomas Benton was a Senator of Missouri who had negative relations with President Jackson. Benton supported the Missouri Compromise, but opposed the National Bank and slavery. Seeing how Missouri was a slave state, Thomas recieved much ridicule. This caused Benton to lose office during the next election. Sam Houston was the first Senator of Texas and a part of the ...
- 472: Thomas Jefferson
- ... 1779. This was the most creative period of his revolutionary statesmanship. His earlier proposals for broadening the electorate and making the system of representation more equitable had failed, and the times permitted no action against slavery except that of shutting off the foreign slave trade. But he succeeded in ridding the land system of feudal vestiges, such as entail and primogeniture, and he was the moving spirit in the disestablishment of ... of queries by the secretary of the French legation, it was ostensibly an account of the resources, productions, government, and society of a single state. But it spanned a continent and contained reflections on religion, slavery, and the Indians. It afterward appeared in many editions and was the literary foundation of his deserved reputation as a scientist. In the Continental Congress (1783-1784), Jefferson's most notable services were connected with ... and with the Ordinance of 1784. Though not adopted, the latter foreshadowed many features of the famous Ordinance of 1787, which established the Northwest Territory. Jefferson went so far as to advocate the prohibition of slavery in all the territories. Minister to France Jefferson's stay in France (1784-1789), where he was first a commissioner to negotiate commercial treaties and then Benjamin Franklin's successor as minister, was in ...
- 473: Conflicts Between The North and The South
- ... a plantation and owned twenty or more slaves. The North and the South not only differed with economics but also politics. The political views of the section differed greatly. The North was trying to abolish slavery and the South wanted to keep it. The differences became so alarming that a compromise was needed to settle the problems. The Compromise of 1850 was created and put a stop to the evident problems ... this compromise also did was cripple the South's representation in the Senate, for the better of the North because the odds were for them. What also pushed the North and South apart further was slavery case concerning a slave by the name of Dred Scott. Dred Scott lived in Missouri with his owner and then moved to Illinois and then to the Wisconsin Territory. When his owners died Dred Scott ... not a citizen and could not file a lawsuit. They also said that slaves were property. Not only did they agree on that, they also said that Congress did not have the authority to outlaw slavery. Socially the North and the South differed greatly also. The two sections had two totally different contrasts as their social classes went. The North and the South lived in two clashing environments, and when ...
- 474: Wendell Phillips
- ... Phillips Wendell Phillips was born on November 29, 1811. He was a well-known American reformer. His career of attempting to reform American society spanned 47 years. He put most of his energy into opposing slavery and supporting women's right's, labor reform, and temperance. In 1865 he attacked the Constitution. He attacked it because it supported slavery. He had married Ann Terry Greene. Greene had been taught by William Lloyd Garrison. Garrison and Phillips became friends. As the Civil War approached he became more and more certain that violence must be employed to abolish slavery. When the war came he was at the head of the emancipation movement. In the years after the war Wendell Phillips demanded that actions be taken to protect blacks and loyal whites in the ...
- 475: Abraham Lincoln
- ... he was running was to gain more notoriety for the 1864 senatorial. Nevertheless, Lincoln had thrown his hat in the ring and he ran on the Republican platform of: 1) opposition to the extension of slavery 2) opposition to "nativist" demands that naturalization laws be changed to limit the rights of immigrants 3) support of federally sponsored internal improvements, a protective tariff, a railroad to the Far West, and free land ... hold the federal forts and installations in the South. All sided with the Union basically because they were assured by Lincoln that the war was being fought to preserve the Union, and not to destroy slavery. In a letter to Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, on August 22, 1862, Lincoln confirmed this position saying: "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save ...
- 476: Good Vs. Evil - Analytical Sentence Outline
- ... you. Societys views have changed over time by the reality brought out in good and evil. People used to feel certain ways about different issues, until morals came out of good and evil tales. Slavery was once considered a good thing. Slaves helped do all the hard work the owners didnt have time for. Segregation was also considered a good thing. Schools, businesses, and even public restrooms were segregated, keeping the "dirty" black from disturbing the "clean" white. Martin Luther King Jr. came along and made a statement. He proved to everyone that slavery and segregation was evil and not necessary for the U.S. The views on racism have since then changed, making everyone have equal rights. Good and evil represented the two different thoughts that occur through ...
- 477: Epic Of Gilgamesh
- ... look into two dynamically different approaches to overcoming prejudice in America. Although their strategies differ greatly, both Berniece and Boy Willie both find ways to combat the problems associated with living in a racist culture. Slavery is still fresh in the minds of many blacks and whites during the 30s and so are many harsh feelings. Berniece and Boy Willie tackle the racism of their time in the same way their ... are very opposed in their strategies for dealing with racism. At a time when racism is at its peak due to unresolved issues on both sides, the future for blacks in America seems bleak. Although slavery has ended, brutal attacks against blacks still exist and many are worse off financially than they were as slaves. Berniece looks at her lifestyle from a realists point of view with little optimism. She ...
- 478: Aristotle
- ... the practices of the time as what he considers to be an acceptable slave. The status quo was the removal of strong bodies from conquered nations for the purpose of manual labor. He felt that slavery through conquest was unacceptable. Slavery he believed to be acceptable was those that needed the slave/master relationship to survive. Those that were too unintelligent to govern themselves needed this bond to get through life. In exchange for their daily ...
- 479: Oklahoma History
- ... few years decided to change the treaty and breakup the Indians. That was a major broken promise to the Indians. This state was formed by discouraged and displaced people. When the Government freed blacks from slavery, very few blacks knew how to read and write. The ones that knew how, found jobs, but that left around one million black people homeless. With the destruction to the south was so bad it ... south. They were mad at the government for that, so they wanted to live in a place where they did not have to abide by the government. The blacks were happy to be out of slavery. They had no place to work and no place to get an education. When the government passed the Jim Crow law saying that blacks could be segregated by not able to sit with whites in ...
- 480: Campaign
- Ida B. Wells' Campaign The anti-lynching campaign of Ida B. Wells took place in the post-Reconstruction era. By the end of the Civil War, slavery was abolished but there was a problem. No one knew what to do with all the ex-slaves. They didnt know how to put them into the existing society. During this period, the government ... era, lynching was thought to be a rational punishment since the law was out of order there was no other alternative. Most whites believed that blacks were brutes and that they should be destroyed. During slavery, lynching of slaves hardly existed because if they lynched their slaves they would be destroying their own property and it would be worthless. But, now that the slaves were free, they were no longer property ...
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