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 1854, The Kansas-Nebraska Act began a rival between the anti- and pro- slavery states on border line territories. This act came into place when settlers wanted to move out into what is now known today as Nebraska, but would not able to legally hold land. This act also gave the power to each territory to decide the issue of slavery based on popular sovereignty. ...

• Word Count: 2508
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

(Act I, pg. 8) The formality expressed in Zoe's first line, is only expressed the play's white characters, with the other black characters addressing the white characters with titles of "Masr" or "Missey". ... The title given to Zoe elevates her position above that of the other black characters. ... " (Furnas, Goodbye Uncle Tom) This is evident as M'Closky eyes Zoe in Act I, " 'Dam that girl; she makes me quiver when I think of her; she's took me for all I'm worth.'... "(Act I, pg. 14) M'Closky acknowledges the limitations of Zoe race...

• Word Count: 1218
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The author has chosen a very good and entertaining title for the book because when you read it you think the story is about something else. But when you start reading you find the story is completely different from the title but when you look at the title you can actually see that the title actually makes sense. The picture he chose on his title is also very entertaining because it emphasizes the book perfectly. ... People should think before they act. ...

• Word Count: 1164
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

TITLE From Anti-slavery Sentiment to Eradication; Reasons for the Abolition of Enslavement From the Missouri Compromise to the Emancipation Declaration SUMMARY The drive to end slavery gradually became the dominant American reform movement from 1820-1863. ... Individual documents such as slave narratives and petitions: the Fugitive Slave Act. ... Brown, knowing that many of the families were finding life in this isolated area difficult, offered to establish his own farm there as well, in order to lead the blacks by his example and to act as a "kind father to them." ...

• Word Count: 748
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

King Leopold II of Belgium obtained personal title to the Congo in central Africa. ... The Population Registration act classified the people asBantu (black Africans), coloured (people of mixed race), white (the descendants of the Boers), and Asian (Indian and Pakistani immigrants). The Group Areas Act established separate sections for each race. ...

• Word Count: 2251
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Previous to the civil war rose two characters, two heroes, in Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. Both serve as compact symbols representing the ideology of their own generations. Jefferson exemplifies the aristocrat, the democratic politician, writer extraordinaire, and the pacifist. Jackson epit...

• Word Count: 2477
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Such situations as the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act raised tensions between the North and the South. ... This act also required that the North return escaped slaves to their owners. The Kansas-Nebraska Act dealt with the problem of Slavery in new territories. This Act allowed slavery in Nebraska and Kansas. ...

• Word Count: 4026
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

The 1831 slave narrative The History of Mary Prince is indeed a multi-layered text. Transcribed from Mary Prince's own words, it was written as abolitionist propaganda for England's Anti-Slavery Society. Yet, the autobiography's complexities make it difficult to examine solely as a publicity piece....

• Word Count: 3051
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School