Many Southern preachers proclaimed that slavery was sanctioned in the Bible. ... Southern extremists opposed any limit on the extension of slavery, but settled for now. ... This compromise allowed abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia and admission of California as a free state. ... Because slavery was such an important part of Southern society, the South felt that they could not survive without it. ... Southerners hoped the threat of succession would force acceptance of Southern demands, but it did not. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Finally, California would be admitted as a free state. There was some fear that, in the event of strong antislavery legislation, the Southern states might withdraw from the Union altogether. ... Through a Southern rigging of the ballot, a state constitution passed permitting slavery, despite free-soilers outnumbering proslavery citizens by three to one. ...

• Word Count: 536
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Serra founded a chain of twenty-one missions that went as far as Sonoma and Christianized three hundred thousand native Californians (Kennedy). ... From California and Florida to Tierra del Fuego, the Spanish empire influenced a large array of cultures and formed the defining ways of their existences. ... The English colonies were split up into three parts: The New England colonies, the Middle colonies, and the Southern colonies. ... The southern colonies were dependent upon their great plantations. ... The impact and triumphs of the English in the Americas can be exemplified by the New ...

• Word Count: 1667
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The northern factories were ready to accept as much raw cotton as the southern growers could ship them. ... In 1790 there were about 657,000 slaves in the Southern states. ... Thanks in large part to the cotton gin, cotton growing became very profitable, and cotton quickly became the most important crop across much of the southern United States. ... By 1800 or so, however, African American slavery was once again a thriving institution, especially in the Southern United States. ... This machine allowed Southern planters to grow a variety of cotton short staple cotton--that was especially well ...

• Word Count: 2677
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• Grade Level: High School

Just recently, California's legislative assembly, along with other municipalities in Chicago, Detroit, Dallas, Cleveland are calling for federal action on African American reparations. Jet Magazine states that "The California resolution also calls on Congress to apologize to Black Americans for the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery. ... Under the Southern Homestead act ex-slaves had a six-month period in which they could purchase land at low rates without competition from whites. ...

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21st Century Slavery There are many different ways one can describe slavery. Webster's Dictionary defines slavery as "one who is owned and forced into service by another," while, the Oxford Dictionary the definition is of one who is an "obsessive devotee." The meaning of slavery has evolved th...

• Word Count: 918
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• Grade Level: High School

"Representatives of the northern states claimed that if the southern slaves were mere property, then they should not be counted towards voting representation in Congress (Harrison 1)". ... 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). ... Most slavery had declined by the late seventeen hundreds, but in the new constitution it was still legal because all of the Northern and Southern delegates had signed the new constitution. ... The invention of the cotton gin made ...

• Word Count: 3329
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Two of the major sex trafficking places in the United States are San Bernardino, California and Las Vegas, Nevada. ... South Asia, Southeast Asia and Eastern and Southern Europe are the "epicenters" of human trafficking, or where it is the most frequent and likely to happen. ...

• Word Count: 1072
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• Grade Level: High School

Sherman's opinion represents that of the average citizen, without differentiating between Northern or Southern. ... Sumter to be fired upon was not so different than a chaotic situation Sherman witnessed in his California days. ...

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After slave labor became driving force of the Southern economy, the North grew against slavery and the South obviously grew for it. ... They now controlled the majority in the House and were pushing for majority in the Senate with California up for statehood. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Southwest peoples including the Hohokam, Mogollan, and Anasazi, originated out of New Mexico and Southern Arizona used Mesoamerican crops and farming techniques. ... The Native Americans also lived in the Great Basin, which is present day Nevada, Utah, Eastern California, Wyoming, and Colorado. ... Along with the Pacific Northwest, which originated in modern day British Columbia and Northern California, there is a mild climate and lots of rainfall. ...

• Word Count: 2660
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School