These two transportation systems improved traveling and trade. Trade was extremely important to the economy because without trade we would not get money for all the crops farmers grew down south and all the manufacturing things the northerners made. ... As the U.S. started adding more states, the question over whether the new states should be free states or slave states caused problems. If America added one slave state they needed to add another state but have it being a free state so the balance would continue as they expanded. ... The court ruling was a slave in a free state is still propert...

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In the 1800's there existed the Free states and those states that were classified as slavery states. ... On the other hand, the republicans were totally against the abolition and banning of slave trade in the U.S. ... The North began by banning and completely abolishing slave trade. ... Southerners rejected the interstate rights notion because if it would be implemented, it would mean that Free states would be able to disallow slavery in their states while their objective was to spread and expand slavery to the Free states. Northerners knew that the major objective of the Southerners in ...

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Separation of marriages and families in slave trade, sexual abuse of slave women, and the harsh treatment of the slaves in the fields, were just a few ways that slaves were mistreated. ... The problem that lies ahead for Americans is what will four million slaves in the south do once they are free. ... It is not the slaves fault that they are uneducated and posses no skills, but once free what can they contribute to society. ... They believed that they should be free but did not believe that should be giving the same job opportunities as whites. Blacks mainly worked unskilled low paying jobs, ...

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Slavery in America stems well back to when the new world was first discovered and was led by the country to start the African Slave Trade-Portugal. The African Slave Trade was first exploited for plantations in that is now called the Caribbean, and eventually reached the southern coasts of America. ... Some of these slaves were housed as well as free workers, but many others were lived under the worst conditions. ... As slavery continued and as it did more and more slaves tried to escape to the free states or into Canada. ... The system involved 3,000 white helpers and freed an estimated 75,00...

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The North traded with everyone, while the South traded primarily with England. ... The price of tobacco had plummeted, and planters were freeing slaves because of the high cost of feeding, housing and clothing them. ... This explosion in the growth of the cotton market rejuvenated the slave trade. This time, though, the slave trade was not between the U.S. and Africa, but instead between the Old South, and the New South. ... The compromise said that free and slave states had to be admitted in pairs to retain equality in the Senate, and that no further slave s...

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The people of the North were supportive of a free society. ... During the war, Union blockades stopped most foreign trade in the South (Scott). ... Particularly after the invention of the cotton gin in 1793, slavery was essential to the cotton trade. ...

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During the Civil War, the United States cut off the Reciprocity Agreement, a partial free trade pact, which they recently made with the colonies of British North America. ... North America (Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia) wanted to become free and independent in order to control their own food industry. ... They decided that they wanted to be free and independent, so that pushed forward the idea of uniting into a country. ...

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It was bad for the South because a high tariff would not let the south trade its cotton for foreign goods. ... Northerners said that slavery revoked the human right of being a free person. ... Now the balance of 11 free states and 11 slave states was in trouble. Maine also applied for statehood in 1819, in which it was admitted as a free state. ... This compromise allowed abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia and admission of California as a free state. ...

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The North's economy was based on Industry and Trade. ... The South wanted a weak central government and more control in the states North wanted a strong central government which could help regulate trade and promote inducstry. ... They were freed and slavery was outlawed, but true equality was a goal they would never reach in their lives. ...

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Stewart was also an African American, but was born to free African American parents. ... She states on page 1037 of her Lecture delivered at the Franklin Hall that, "Methinks that were the American free people of color to turn their attention more assiduously to moral worth and intellectual improvement, this would be the result: prejudice would gradually diminish, and the whites would be compelled to say, unloose those fetters." ... He realized that "education and slavery were incompatible" (pg. 1072) and knowledge became to him like "valuable bread" that he traded to the poor white urchins in...

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He saw slavery as a positive good and states that slavery "forms the most solid and durable foundation on which to build free and stable political institutions" (MHL Calhoun p. 235). ... He felt if he freed the slaves, he could lose the support from the South and with elections coming up and he could not afford that. ... John Quincy Adams expressed the following in a letter dated November 19, 1839: "They were victims of the African slave trade, recently imported into the island of Cuba, in gross violation of the laws of the Island and of Spain; and by acts which our own laws hav...

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The Northern agreed to this decision because they believed that there was still a lot of money to be made from the slave trade industry, which would help the young, growing economy. ... Now the balance of 11 free states and 11 slave states was in trouble. Maine also applied for statehood in 1819, in which it was admitted as a free state. ... This compromise allowed abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia and admission of California as a free state. ... Over all the freeing of the slaves was merely a by-product of the ci...

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It was bad for the South because a high tariff would not let the south trade its cotton for foreign goods. ... Northerners said that slavery revoked the human right of being a free person. ... Now the balance of 11 free states and 11 slave states was in trouble. Maine also applied for statehood in 1819, in which it was admitted as a free state. ... This compromise allowed abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia and admission of California as a free state. ...

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Harper, is about the course of the trade with slaves and the feelings of people who lost their relatives because of this process. ... Harper was born in Baltimore to African American free slaves. ... "The Slave Auction" describes an unpleasant and inhuman process of slave trade from the perspective of the victims. ...

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It was bad for the South because a high tariff would not let the south trade its cotton for foreign goods. ... Northerners said that slavery revoked the human right of being a free person. ... Now the balance of 11 Free states and 11 Slave states was in trouble. ... Representatives were sent from 7 slave and 14 free states. ... I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free." ...

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It was bad for the South because a high tariff would not let the south trade its cotton for foreign goods. ... Northerners said that slavery revoked the human right of being a free person. ... Now the balance of 11 Free states and 11 Slave states was in trouble. ... Representatives were sent from 7 slave and 14 free states. ... I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free." ...

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This act traded Maine as a free slave state so that Missouri would be allowed to own slaves which gave slaves in the selected northern states their freedom. In 1821, New York gave freed slaves the right to vote, and 6 years later declared slavery illegal. ... In that same year, slave trade was abolished in Washington, D.C. ... Even though the document stated the slaves would be freed, it was limited in many ways. ... She informs the reader on, "The Slaves' New Year's Day" (Jacobs 15) which is on January 1 of every new year where slaves are sold and traded. ...

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This caused many problems for example if a free black man tried to stake his claim at land he found gold on he was denied it. ... The first was admission of California as a free state. ... Third, the abolition of slave trade in the district of Columbia, but not slavery itself. ...

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After 1865 United State wanted to expand the borders. 19th century world was carved up in colony. To united state to become world power they have to get their colony in the world. They didn"t want to stay behind. U.S had commercial interest in Far East. They kept the eye on China. South of United st...

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" In the compromise, the California admission issue was resolved and it was admitted as a free state, also, there would be no more slave trade in Washington D.C., and the border dispute between Texas and New Mexico ended in favor of New Mexico. ... This settlement somehow aggravated the problem between the North and the South in congress about the balance of free and slave states, then later on lead to South secession from the Union. ...

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As part of the "Great Triumvirate" of American politics from the War of 1812 to the Compromise of 1850, Henry Clay has had many accomplishments. His greatest accomplishment I believe is the Compromise of 1850, where he helped prevent the Civil War from happening for a little bit longer. He has had...

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In the period after the War of 1812, during the so-called "Era of Good Feelings", the United States was with faced many good things, but seemed to be outweighed with bad things such as a failing economy, the beginning of sectionalism, and more issues with foreign policies, therefore the label of the...

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Like Galations 5:1 states, "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. ... This means that we should stand firm against everything that is wrong, because Jesus has set everyone free from sin just like the Civil War set slaves free from slavery. ... During the slave trade, African American were transported by Europeans who planned to sell them as slaves. ... The Kansas-Nebraska Act also severely weakened the Democratic party in the free states (Hughes 48-49, Katz 79 -82). ... Just as John 8:36 states, "So if the Son of man sets you free you are free indeed" (McPherson 712-713, H...

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Moreover, beginning in the seventeenth century, a burgeoning slave trade saw Africans captured and brought to America in bondage, separated from their relations and sold, leaving individuals with no point of familiarity: forced into slavery, on a new continent, without kin or social contacts (Sullivan 21). ... In the lips of some, it meant the expectation of a speedy summons to a world of spirits; but, in the lips of our company, it simply meant, a speedy pilgrimage toward a Free State, and deliverance from all the evils and dangers of slavery (Douglas 184). ... Slaves used it as a secret mess...

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At this time the president had his hand full because the union was going to split in two slave states and Free states.* During this time of political chaos, a time where the southern states would try and cheat the northern out of a fair boat, one man decided to take it upon himself to end slavery. John Brown wanted to set up his own nation if freed slaves in Appalachia. He wanted to get free the slaves from the south, and felt the only way to accomplish this goal was by violence. ... Lincoln had a few concerns on what to do with the freed slaves? ... To take advantage of this the Union se...

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