One of the most adamant pro-slavery politicians was John C. ... Although popular sovereignty seemed like a feasible plan, it had weaknesses. ... For one, President Abraham Lincoln (Congressman at the time) disapproved of popular sovereignty. ... Most northerners were not complete abolitionists by definition, but were at least opposed the expansion of existing slavery. ... Most of the people in the north were not this radical on the territorial issue, but many believed that slavery was immoral and unjust. ...

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The most important of these influences was the popular racism which had existed in both northern and southern colonial America since the establishment of slavery in the seventeenth century. ... As the nation's leader, Johnson had the power to dictate popular morality as well as popular politics. ... The most popular opposing school of thought contends that the structure of American government and its written Constitution were responsible for the downfall of Reconstruction. ... Intimidation by poor whites and Black Codes, both racially motivated, played the most overwhelming role in the di...

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This soon lead to the forming of one of the most popular and oldest political parties in US history, the Republican party. ... This was a big surprise because their were many popular and successful politicians who wanted to be chosen but instead Lincoln, with only one congressional term was selected. ... Lincoln had less that forty percent of the popular vote but received 180 of the electoral vote, more than all of the other candidates combined. ... However only congress could do this and when leader of the supreme court Roger Taney rules Lincoln's action unconstitutional and ignored hi...

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Popular-sovereignty was a compromised that would have allowed the territory itself to establish the laws on slavery, but proved damaging to the cause of the Anti-slavery activist because it allowed slavery in states that had previously determined it to be illegal. ... Of the compromises submitted to the national government, the Crittenden Compromise was the most popular. ... The actions of the North and the South and their failure to compromise lead to the most costly war in human casualties ever. ...

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Thus, the Supreme Court deemed both the Mason-Dixon Line of the Compromise of 1820 and popular sovereignty of the Kansas-Nebraska Act unconstitutional. ... Northern Democrats, as supporters of popular sovereignty, were shocked, while Southern Democrats rejoiced. ... Abraham Lincoln most profoundly contributed to the breakup of the Union in 1861. ... At Freeport, Illinois, Lincoln forced Douglas to publicly state his views on the authority of popular sovereignty over that of the Supreme Court. ...

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Thus, the Supreme Court deemed both the Mason-Dixon Line of the Compromise of 1820 and popular sovereignty of the Kansas-Nebraska Act unconstitutional. ... Northern Democrats, as supporters of popular sovereignty, were shocked, while Southern Democrats rejoiced. ... Abraham Lincoln most profoundly contributed to the breakup of the Union in 1861. ... At Freeport, Illinois, Lincoln forced Douglas to publicly state his views on the authority of popular sovereignty over that of the Supreme Court. ...

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Thus, the Supreme Court deemed both the Mason-Dixon Line of the Compromise of 1820 and popular sovereignty of the Kansas-Nebraska Act unconstitutional. ... Northern Democrats, as supporters of popular sovereignty, were shocked, while Southern Democrats rejoiced. ... Abraham Lincoln most profoundly contributed to the breakup of the Union in 1861. ... At Freeport, Illinois, Lincoln forced Douglas to publicly state his views on the authority of popular sovereignty over that of the Supreme Court. ...

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Through Huck's struggle of conscience and his uneasy conclusions, Twain portrays the idea that sometimes what feels right, contrary to popular belief, may actually be right; this can also be illustrated through the evolution of opinions on racism and slavery in society. ... [and] [he] most dropped in [his] tracks [he] was so scared" (191); despite this fear he cannot deny his feelings, so "[he] studied a minute, sort of holding [his] breath, and then says to [himself]: "All right then, I"ll go to hell,""(192). ... Through Huck's struggle of conscience and his uneasy conclusions, Tw...

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To work out contracts that could last up to seven years just to get their own land but most of the time the workers died before they could have the chance to own their own land. ... Popular Sovereignty - Another proposal, supported by two key Democratic senators, Lewis Cass of Michigan and Stephen Douglas of Illinois. ...

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Senator, and (notwithstanding James Buchanan's occupying the presidential chair) a leader of the Democratic Party.2 He also focused on the prejudices of his audience, saying that the government was created exclusively for whites in order to advocate "popular sovereignty," which maintained the right of the citizens of a territory to permit or prohibit slavery. ... Lincoln brings up race in a way that, in his most controversial statements, defers to the superior status of whites and blacks, but also tries to point whites in the direction of natural equality as the basis of everyon...

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Then there were persons who opposed slavery, like Lincoln and most of the northern people. ... was the most persuasive and the more rational explanation for his conclusions that it was the driving force of Abraham Lincoln himself that eventually brought an end not only to slavery in the South but to the end of Slavery as an institution in the United States. While he carefully analyzes the arguments in favor of the so-called "self-emancipation" thesis which has become popular in more recent times by such noted historians as Robert F. ... Fields, he answers each point in their argument with I ...

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One difference is that while Native American dance and music remains popular within the Native population at Pow-wows and other similar events, it has not influenced popular culture that much. African American music roots, however have led to many popular music revolutions. ...

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The Birth of Controversy The first important and coherent motion picture made is also one of the most controversial ever. ... Despite Griffith's politics, what is sad is that this film accurately portrays a popular southern point of view during the Civil War time period. ...

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Douglass's autobiography is one of the most important historical documents of the eighteenth century--written with the goal of abolishing slavery by reaching out to the hearts of his fellow men and women and captivating their sympathy as he describes the many roadblocks that he as a slave was forced to overcome, both physically and mentally. ... On the first page he states, "By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their age as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant," acknowledging that the white maste...

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Most of the Floridians in the south do not even know the meaning of such a word. ... One of the most controversial elections in United States History was the presidential election of 2000. ... The Keys are popular tourist resorts noted for their fishing and tropical vegetation. ... Broward County, in South Florida is the second most populous county in Florida (Vogel, 27). ... These counties can very well determine the next Florida governor since they are amongst the most populated areas in the state. ...

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Most white southerners claimed that the blacks that won office during Reconstruction were incapable of running the government. ... Tilden competed in one of the most controversial presidential elections in History. Rutherford lost the popular vote, however, he won the electoral vote. ... The sudden changes in political power in the South rendered useless most of the legislation that Radical Republicans had passed through Congress. ...

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Ferguson court case ordered separate but equal accommodations for black and white Americans, however, in most situations, the separated facilities were like night and day. ... Regardless of the laws, most of the time the freedom riders were received with brutality. ... Contrary to popular belief, the fight for civil rights is not over. ...

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The Civil War pitted Americans against each other. The sectional divisions between the North and South caused tensions leading up to the Civil War, but the issue of slavery would ultimately lead to war. Tensions evolved between the North and South before the Civil War due to their difference in econ...

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The Republican platform specifically pledged not to extend slavery, "that the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom; that as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory" and "that in the recent vetoes by the federal governors of the acts of the Legislatures of Kansas and Nebraska, prohibiting slavery in those territories, we find a practical illustration of the boasted democratic principle of non-intervention and popular sovereignty, embodied in the Kansas-Nebraska bill, and a demonstration of the ...

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A major discount to abolitionist was that the most persisted efforts were coming from the northern states but offset by wide support in the southern states. ... Lawyers saturated the market in response to the growing economy upholding the popular principles of political and social equality. ...

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The "great Emancipator" the tenacious the humble the human Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president to the United States of America one of the most distinguished presidents that saved the country and gave new birth to freedom. ... In the year 1858 Lincoln gave his most distinguished speech "House Divided" speech whish indicated several points, but what mostly important is stopping the importance of slaves from Africa, and holding slaves in free states automatically sets them free. ... Abraham was not convinced yet that he is eligible for presidency but he ran for that election in 1860 and he ...

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It seems certain most Americans believed in a special manifest destiny for the nation, and this philosophical foundation enabled the United States to spread westward with confidence and moral assuredness. ... From the end of the Civil War to the early 20th century, the indifference of most Americans to the outside world was almost unbelievable. ... The lurid "yellow press- of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst whetted he popular taste for excitement broad. ...

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Most surgeons lacked familiarity with gunshot wounds and as the war continued, newly developed ammunition produced grisly wounds that were difficult to treat. ... The most effective drugs were the pain-killers opium and morphine, while many of the other available drugs were useless or harmful. ... Popular, but generally incorrect images of Civil War medicine involve surgery amputations without anesthesia, and piles of arms and legs, viewed the surgeon as a butcher. ... As bullets hit their victims, shattered bone and shredded flesh, it became most obvious that the surgeons who had come from ci...

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Her speeches got so popular that men and women defied the social standards of that time, and listened to a woman's public speech. ... Under those circumstances, an education in the 19th century for most women was hard to come by since it was socially untraditional. ...

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Her speeches got so popular that men and women defied the social standards of that time, and listened to a woman's public speech. ... Under those circumstances, an education in the 19th century for most women was hard to come by since it was socially untraditional. ...

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