Most Americans today do not realize that the constitution that our country is run by today was not the first constitution written. ... The northern delegates were afraid that any attempt they made to abolish slavery would have caused the five southern states to refuse to ratify the constitution (Welch 33). The 10th Amendment was also added and it stated, "[ ] the powers not delegated to the United States Federal Government by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the State respectively or to the people (Barker 22)". ... Everyone just assumed that the constit...

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Anti-Slavery movements and abolition movements from great abolitionist helped to end slavery in the United States. ... Antislavery began in the colonial days in the United States. ... The abolition movement slowly went throughout the Northern United States, even though the southern states didn't want that to happen. ... In 1865, the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery in the country. ... On October 18 he was overpowered by a small force of United States Marines under the command of Col. ...

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In his examination of Lincoln's presidency Philip Shaw Paludan, states of Lincoln that "He believed that equality would be realized only through the proper operation of existing institutions. ... He Clearly stated in his First Inaugural Address that he had, "purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists- It is also possible that he was simply waiting for a time when he felt he could actually deal slavery a successful blow. Lincoln made no secret that he believed slavery was wrong and that he did not feel that it could contin...

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According to historian, Gene Dattel, Slave-produced cotton brought commercial ascendancy to New York City, cotton was the driving force for territorial expansion in the South and fostered trade between Europe and the United States. ... Serious tensions between the free and salve states evolved from different developing economic systems in The United States. ... Jefferson considered the 10th amendment to be "the foundation of the Constitution." 5 It reads: "All powers not delegated to the U.S. by the Constitution, not prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to...

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The Missouri discussions held 1819-1821 functioned as an important turn in the United States' major disagreement over slavery. ... The planned admittance of Missouri to the Union sanctioned its populations to draft a state constitution and Missourians began the second act of the problematic situation with a draft constitution ensuring slavery and excluding free people of color from coming into their state. In 1820 to 1821, the nation and Congress disputed the suitability of the Missouri state constitution. ... In retort this stretched vocal treatment of the problem of slavery in the Unite...

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Frederick Douglass Born 1818 (?) in Tuckahoe, Maryland Died 1895 in Washington D.C. Frederick Douglass was the leading spokesman of African Americans in the 1800's. Never knowing his mother or even the identity of his father, he was born a slave and escaped to the north when he was twenty years old. He learned how to read and write in secret, and it became his passion. ...

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The United States had expanded all the way to the Pacific Ocean and was rapidly becoming a major industrial and commercial nation. ... The supporters of states' rights held that the national government was a league of independent states, any of which had the right to secede. ... Five other states - Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana - followed in January 1861. In February, representatives from the six states met in Montgomery, Ala., and established the Confederate States of America. ... He had always been a strong foe of emigration and repatriation schemes, but the i...

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The majority of these violent Indian wars occurred in the southern United States. ... By 1835, that number increased to 1,592 slaves, with more than seven percent of Cherokee families owning slaves; a greater percentage of Cherokees owned slaves that those in the Southern United States. ...

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