1. Foreign Policy
In 1839, Spanish slave traders attempted to transport 53 illegally purchased Africans to Havana, Cuba and during this journey one of the Africans, Cinque, killed his captors and took over the ship (Jones et al. ... The vessels, and the goods on board were the property of Spanish subjects in Havana and the "Negroes" in question were certified at that time by a document signed by the Governor General of Cuba to be property of Spanish subjects (Argument of the Government). ... They were kidnapped and illegally carried to Cuba, and detained and restrained on board of the Amistad; there i...
The Gilded-Age, Reconstruction Era and the Age of Imperialism were periods of time that affected the first half of the American 20th century, changing the face of American identity. The American Identity shows a sense of duty by wanting to show everyone else the way to live. America as well wanting...
I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. ... Slavery had become such a prominent institution in the South, that by 1850, many Southerners supported the filibustering of Cuba and Mexico believing that the "safety of the South was to be found only in the extension of (slavery)." ... "In the year 1765, that portion of the British Empire embracing Great Britain undertook to make laws for the Government of that portion composed of the thirteen American Colonies. A struggle for the right of self-government ensued, which resulted, on t...
Rejecting the arguments for federal authority or self-government, state sovereignty would empower states to promote the expansion of slavery as part of the Federal Union under the U.S. ... These states agreed to form a new federal government, the Confederate States of America, on February 4, 1861. ...