She wrote the most powerful antislavery novel ever and it perhaps made her the most influential woman of her time. ... Harriet Beecher Stowe was the most prominent member of what was only the second generation of American woman novelists (Douglas 11). ... This was rare in that time because most authors used men as their protagonist and the women played minor roles. ... The books pathos, sensationalism, and timeliness made it enormously popular (McMichael 1561). ...

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Most other republicans rejected a move or a radical stand that would associate them more with abolitionists. Lincoln, who was more conservative then most of the other republicans in his party, stated that he was against equal rights in voting and office holding of women. ... The Democratic Party was united behind the document of Popular Sovereignty. ... Most of the Democrats in the North assumed that under Popular Sovereignty slavery would never spread into free states. ... Douglas made his platform based on the belief of popular sovereignty. ...

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Songs are generally divided into 3 categories: classical, popular and folk. ... The first American popular song tradition was the minstrel show, with songs that survived over 60 years and are still sung today. ... However African culture was not the only influence on American popular music, Irish and Italian cultures also greatly contributed to American music. ... Music became some of the most profitable items on market that was sold both within the United States and exported to other countries. ... One type of popular music is minstrel music, which was a show usually performed by white men pr...

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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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"Most students of America's past realize that the Civil War marked a major turning point in the nation's history. ... Along with these there was the question of federal versus state, and don't forget the idea of free soil versus popular sovereignty (Alexander 246). ... They believed in the state law over the federal law, and they were believers in popular sovereignty. ...

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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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Daughter of one of the most noted divines of the nineteenth century, Lyman Beecher, sister of an even more controversial minister, Henry Ward Beecher, married to a minister, sister and mother of other ministers, Harriet Beecher Stowe spent virtually her entire life in an intensely religious, particularly a Calvinistic, atmosphere. ... It was extremely popular in England, as well. Uncle Tom's Cabin was also translated into several languages, and ended up being popular in those countries, too. Even though she did disapprove of the theater, actors began to put on productions of a dramatized ...

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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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Douglass's most significant autobiographical works include: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave; My Bondage and My Freedom; and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. ... This gave him his desire and a goal, but most of all, hope. ... (pg.187) Frederick Douglass's Narrative is perhaps his best known, as well as, most popular work. ... This book was less popular with the public than the previous two. ...

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While most southerners were small farmers, large plantation owners who were dependant upon slavery held much power. ... Missouri Compromise Fugitive slave law Compromise of 1850 Popular Sovereignty People in the North and South over the morality of slavery divided the nation. ... Most southerners were willing to tolerate the system as an economic necessity and did not wanted to end it. ... In terms of human loss it was the most terrible war ever fought in American history. ...

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During the Civil Rights Movement many black artist and old Negro Spiritual songs became extremely popular during marches. ... Amid the decades prior to the Civil War, slaves developed cotton represented a large portion of the estimation of all united States trades, and gave for all intents and purpose the greater part of the cotton utilized as a part of the northen material industry and 70 percent of the cotton utilized as a part of British mills Slave codes showed lawful authorizes over the dark populace, for the most part setting cruel limitations on slaves' opportunity and giving slave...

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His forbearance under such weight has made him one of the nation's most beloved heroes. ... Douglas had alienated the Southern wing of his party by arguing that in keeping with his idea of popular sovereignty territorial legislatures should be allowed to closer their territories to slavery if they saw fit to do so. ... Lincoln was only 39 percent of the popular vote, but received a majority of the electoral votes. ... It even incorporates most of the Bill of Rights. ...

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There were Vivandières, women who aided in battle camps, and Confederate spies; however, the most popular job for women in the war were nurses ("Women's Role in the War Effort"). ... To continue, the most popular of the civil war nurses was Clara Barton. ...

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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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He made the most through violations of the Constitution in the nation's history. ... Lincoln even threw out the Constitution and retained popular appeal of the masses. ... He lacked the popular appeal that Lincoln had, allowing the people in the south to not trust him. ...

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Violence against blacks became more and more popular, and organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan were established (Reconstruction). ... Tilden led in the popular vote, but the count from four states, which represented a total of twenty votes in the Electoral College, was disputed. ... It attempted to end the most serious crisis that the US had ever experienced. ...

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As backward as this might sound, Sherman's views were not at all deviant from the popular views held at that time. ... Both men were popular, and the commotion that rose within the city formed a chaotic mob. ... In A Place Called Appomattox, the fact that most southerners were detached from the political issue of secession was obvious. ...

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Britain was also involved along with France in Texas , this was a little too close to home and the annexation of Texas was probably most necessary for national security. ... Agriculturally plentiful areas like Oregon and California (more popular in the late 1840's after the discovery of gold in 1848) attracted large numbers of settlers , as settlers moved west it was important that there still was some sort of laws and morals. ... Backed by the popular belief of Manifest Destiny the American people's greed came into effect in the mid 1840's especially. ...

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Late presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln are always in the top ten of America's favorite presidents. So what was the reason for their assassination? Maybe society today does not have knowledge enough about the two late presidents to judge them on how great they actuall...

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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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