Plantations brought in black slaves from Africa to provide most of the labor required for growing the crop. ... Even though an antislavery minority existed in the South, most Southerners found slavery to be highly profitable and in time came to consider it a positive good. ... rganized as a state, they could decide by popular vote whether to permit slavery to continue. ... However, Lincoln received less than 40 per cent of the popular vote, almost none of which came from the South. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

What Is Manifest Destiny? In 1845, an influential magazine editor by the name of John L. O"Sullivan wrote in the "U.S. Magazine and Editorial Review" regarding the annexation of Texas as a new state. Explaining the American thirst for expansion that had existed from the day of its creation in 1...

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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...

• Word Count: 3046
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

William Lloyd Garrison - Publisher of the newspaper "The Liberator" we was the most outspoken and most vocal of all abolitionists. ... She became the most famous leader of the underground railroad, which aided slaves fleeing to the free states or to Canada. ... Among her most memorable appearances was at an 1851 women's rights conference in Akron, Ohio: in her famous "Ain't I a woman?" ... Nat Turner - Nat Turner, a black slave and preacher, led the most famous slave revolt in United States history. ...

• Word Count: 2903
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• Grade Level: High School

Douglas proclaimed the doctrine of territorial or "popular" sovereignty – which declared that the settlers in a territory had the same rights as states in the Union to establish or disestablish slavery as a purely local matter. ...

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They did so using the most enduring weapon at their disposal, the printing press. ... This demand was unrealistic, since the exploitation of female slaves was a standard practice for most masters. ... A defense of Prince's former owners, the Woods, was written in the Bermuda Royal Gazette describing the West Indian as guilty of "the most disgraceful lascivious acts- (Prince 154). ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The darkest parts of U.S. history lies in the time of slavery. The worst examples of humanity can be seen during this time period. However, in the midst of that darkness, one woman chose to shine a light on the cruelties of slavery. Harriet Jacobs, who is credited as the first woman black woman to...

• Word Count: 2508
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 2704
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Douglas proclaimed the doctrine of territorial or "popular" sovereignty – which declared that the settlers in a territory had the same rights as states in the Union to establish or disestablish slavery as a purely local matter. ...

• Word Count: 7511
• Approx Pages: 30
• Grade Level: High School

Is War Necessary? There are many reasons why a country or several countries could go to war. Some of these reasons are just, however many of them are not. There are many movies made illustrating many different aspects of American wars, good and bad. The American Revolution was mainly a politica...

• Word Count: 4263
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School