1. Causes of the Civil War
In addition, Congress banned slavery from the territory acquired by the Louisiana Purchase north of Missouri's southern boundary. ... The spread of slavery also intensified challenges from Northerners who opposed the system on moral, political, and economical grounds. The rapid growth of a non-slaveholding and increasingly antislavery North endangered the political autonomy of the slaveholding South. ...
The formation of these new states gave rise to a new question: should these new states welcome slavery within their boundaries? ... Furthermore, the latitude line of 36-30 (the southern border of Missouri) was set, and it was declared that any new territory north of this boundary would be non-slavery land. ... Therefore the South and their prominent political leaders were staunch defenders, and promoters of slavery. ... I would demonstrate what I had been saying all along - that popular sovereignty was a political fiction, a lullaby designed to put northerners to sleep and clear the way fo...
Although the Wilmot Proviso did not become law, the issue it raised - the extension of slavery into the western territories - contributed to the growth of political factionalism. ... The treaty also settled the Texas border dispute in favor of the United States, placing the Texas-Mexico boundary at the Rio Grande. ...
The Republican Party's role in changing the south politically and societally, and how the definition of freedom changed over time through 1860 and 1877. ... In the 1850s the Whig Party submitted to the sectionalizing effects of the slavery issue while also forgoing to operate as a national political party. ... One of these different outlooks on slavery occurred in Kansas, where the question was whether the new territory would be slave owning or free which erupted into violent and political turmoil. ... They felt if confining slavery within its current boundaries that this institution a...
Frederick Douglass began his life as a common slave but proved to be a phenomenon by breaking free of all boundaries placed upon him. ... Frederick Douglass believed it was possible to fight slavery using the American political system, he and other political abolitionists created an anti-slavery Liberty Party. ... Douglass also felt that woman did not gain full equality with regards to their rights in America and strongly supported the woman's rights movement, "In respect to political rights we hold a woman to be justly entitled to all we claim for man All the political rights which it i...
In response to the South, the North argued that "Slavery itself was a moral and political evil that was contrary to the spirit of the Declaration of Independence, and that it had been tolerated in the constitution only by necessity and ought to be restricted" This everlasting debate lasted until the next year when the Missouri Compromise was introduced. ... Secondly, the compromise excluded slavery from all new states in the Louisiana Purchase north of southern boundary of Missouri. ...
They also had wanted to change the American-Canadian boundary. ... Before the era of good feelings, there was much rivalry between the political parties. ... This left the Democratic-Republicans unchallenged in American politics. ... During the Era of Good Feelings, political issues arose. These political issues would soon dominate American politics for the next forty years. ...
Kentucky's Neutrality in the Civil War As the Civil War became a reality, Kentucky was divided both politically and geographically in the division of the north and south. ... But it is clear that their declaration for neutrality was based on an economic decision more than one based on the politics of either the union or confederacy. ... More so than the other Border States the reason for this was more geographical reasons than political reasons. ... Access from the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers helped to determine the geographical divide for the South, as the Ohio River helped to d...
These following five articles will explain and discuss the importance of political figure from different perspective. ... Lincoln and Douglas shows how they deal with race indicates two different directions regarding civil and political rights for blacks in Illinois, where Douglas will use race not only to affirm existing white supremacy but to reinforce it. ... Proposed by Douglas and Lincoln's opponent in the influential of their debate, where the bill overturned the Missouri Compromise's use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory. ... Lincoln alludes to what ...
Shelby made it clear that woman should not cross the boundary between social and domestic dealings. ... Now, John, I don't know anything about politics, but I can read my Bible; and there I see that I must feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and comfort the desolate; and that Bible I mean to follow (89). ...
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....
Most political leaders consciously choose to ignore the relationship between political slavery to Great Britain and the enslavement of blacks for own economic well being, so slavery lasted for several decades. ... If they were south of the Mason Dixon Line which is the boundary between the North and the South, most did not get their freedom. ...
The majority of slaves did recognize that the ability to read and write was crucial to both religious practice and to the assertion of individual and political rights. ... Furthermore, whites believed that by educating them, slaves would discover that they should have certain rights; the slaves would become aware of their abilities to succeed in a life beyond the boundaries of their plantations. ...
He feels that no Negro should be apart of any political party without knowing what it can do for them. Many times, we as a people see what a popular Black politician claims as their political party and we automatically think that it (the party) is right for us also. ...