... known as the "Calhoun doctrine," named after the South Carolinian political theorist and statesman John C. Calhoun. Rejecting the arguments for federal authority or self-government, state sovereignty would empower states to promote the expansion of slavery as part of the Federal Union under the U.S. Constitution. "States' rights" was an ideology formulated and applied as a means of advancing slave state ... southern states believed slaveholding was a constitutional right because of the Fugitive slave clause of the Constitution." These states agreed to form a new federal government, the C...

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... one of the worst reconstruction efforts ever. The Radical Reconstruction started out as a good idea, but quickly took a turn for the worst. The Federal Government had the idea of making blacks free, but the southerners had no intention of truly freeing any blacks. The South now was in a struggle of ... make long-term work contracts to white landowners. These laws caused the murder of thousands of blacks between 1865 and 1866. In 1867, the Federal Government imposed military law in the south to protect black rights. This military law caused even more issues for blacks, including facing a...

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... American civil war was the different places people lived. People from the north lived predominantly in cities and people from the south lived mainly in rural areas. Each side favored a government that would benefit their lifestyle the most. Another underlying cause of the American civil war was the kinds of labor each side used. The north used free labor in which ... growth of small industries in the north. Another underlying cause of the American civil war is the argument over who should control internal improvements the states or the federal government. The north believed that the fed...

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... American civil war was the different places people lived. People from the north lived predominantly in cities and people from the south lived mainly in rural areas. Each side favored a government that would benefit their lifestyle the most. Another underlying cause of the American civil war was the kinds of labor each side used. The north used free labor in which ... growth of small industries in the north. Another underlying cause of the American civil war is the argument over who should control internal improvements the states or the federal government. The north believed that the fed...

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... the cotton gin in 1793. It almost immediately transformed southern agriculture and revitalized slavery. Whitney also was successful in manufacturing rifles for the government by employing the idea of interchangeable parts. 1793 Development of the Cotton Gin- Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793. The device ... obligations imposed by a contract and McCulloch v. Maryland in 1819 which denied the right of the states to tax an institution established by the federal government. 1819 Missouri Compromise- In 1820, after angry debate in Congress, Missouri entered the Union as a slave state...

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... the growth of small industries in the north. There were arguments over who should control internal improvements the states or the federal government. The north believed that the federal government should pay for the internal improvements needed because they lived mainly in the big cities and they believed that all should pay ... needs. Basically the North favored a loose interpretation of the United States Constitution. They wanted to grant the federal government increased powers. The South wanted to reserve all undefined powers to the individual states. The North also wanted internal im...

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... the Union. Basically the North favored a loose interpretation of the United States Constitution. They wanted to grant the federal government increased powers. The South wanted to reserve all undefined powers to the individual states. The North also wanted internal improvements sponsored by the ... federal government. This was more roads, railroads, and canals. The South, on the other hand, did not want these projects to be ... of slavery into new territories. The North wanted to limit the number of slave states in the Union. But many Southerners felt that a government dominated by fre...

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... the Union. Basically the North favored a loose interpretation of the United States Constitution. They wanted to grant the federal government increased powers. The South wanted to reserve all undefined powers to the individual states. The North also wanted internal improvements sponsored by the ... federal government. This was more roads, railroads, and canals. The South, on the other hand, did not want these projects to be ... of slavery into new territories. The North wanted to limit the number of slave states in the Union. But many Southerners felt that a government dominated by fre...

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... the Union. Basically the North favored a loose interpretation of the United States Constitution. They wanted to grant the federal government increased powers. The South wanted to reserve all undefined powers to the individual states. The North also wanted internal improvements sponsored by the ... federal government. This was more roads, railroads, and canals. The South, on the other hand, did not want these projects to be ... of slavery into new territories. The North wanted to limit the number of slave states in the Union. But many Southerners felt that a government dominated by fre...

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... the Union. Basically the North favored a loose interpretation of the United States Constitution. They wanted to grant the federal government increased powers. The South wanted to reserve all undefined powers to the individual states. The North also wanted internal improvements sponsored by the ... federal government. This was more roads, railroads, and canals. The South, on the other hand, did not want these projects to be ... of slavery into new territories. The North wanted to limit the number of slave states in the Union. But many Southerners felt that a government dominated by fre...

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... Confederacy severely clashed in their views on the Constitution; the South felt that individual states should have the right to nullify laws, while Abraham Lincoln believed the federal government should appoint representatives for individual states. The South and Abraham Lincoln contrasted sharply on the idea of secession because the Constitution was ambiguous regarding states's rights. ... . . when the parties to a treaty violate it, it is no longer binding" (7). Continuing with this notion, the southern states justified their succession with the idea that the federal government was int...

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... the Union. Basically the North favored a loose interpretation of the United States Constitution. They wanted to grant the federal government increased powers. The South wanted to reserve all undefined powers to the individual states. The North also wanted internal improvements sponsored by the ... federal government. This was more roads, railroads, and canals. The South, on the other hand, did not want these projects to be ... because a high tariff would not let the south trade its cotton for foreign goods. The North also wanted a good banking and currency system and federal subsidies ...

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... Vice President Alexander Stephens explained following the war that "the conflict, on this question of slavery, in the Federal Councils, from the beginning, was not a contest between the advocates or opponents of that peculiar institution, but a contest . . . between the supporters of a strictly Federative Government, on the one side, and a thoroughly National one on the other." The right to govern themselves as ... of the civil war. A States right was a major topic, even at the drafting of the US Constitution in 1787. The colonies at that time feared a strong Federal Government, and wo...

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... was split into two warring sections- the North and the South. This Civil War formed a new United States, with a stronger federal government, and a new definition of what freedom really is. I. Causes leading up to War There were many causes leading up to ... to pick hundreds of pounds of cotton weekly. Slavery had been rejuvenated by this invention. B. Social and Political Elements States Rights versus the Federal Government was probably the biggest reason why the southern states seceded. There were also many compromises that failed to accomplish anything. The Compromise of 1850, ... th...

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... from the end of the Civil War, 1865, to 1877. Reconstruction emerges in the early part of the war. Union commanders and the federal government were forced to make decisions about how large areas of the South gained by Union forces should be administered. Decisions were first made for islands ... for blacks in the South. Former slaves were employed as contract labor, and local whites loyal to the Union organized new state governments under federal control. From the time of that Emancipation Proclamation was issued, Northern aim shifted from preserving the Union to rebuilding the South. Lat...

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... from the Union. The North favored a loose interpretation of the United States Constitution. They wanted to grant the federal government increased powers. The South wanted to reserve all undefined powers to the individual states. The North also wanted internal improvements sponsored by the ... federal government. This was more roads, railroads, and canals. The South, on the other hand, did not want these projects to be ... of slavery into new territories. The North wanted to limit the number of slave states in the Union. However, many Southerners felt that a government dominated by Fre...

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... from the Union. The North favored a loose interpretation of the United States Constitution. They wanted to grant the federal government increased powers. The South wanted to reserve all undefined powers to the individual states. The North also wanted internal improvements sponsored by the ... federal government. This was more roads, railroads, and canals. The South, on the other hand, did not want these projects to be ... of slavery into new territories. The North wanted to limit the number of slave states in the Union. However, many Southerners felt that a government dominated by Fre...

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... exists, but that secession from the Union is illegal and that he will force if necessary to prevent it. His tone is moderate, however, when addressing the Southern rebels. "The government will not assail you, " Lincoln asserts, "You can have no conflict, without yourselves the aggressors. " March 11, 1861 The Confederate Congress unanimously adopts the CONFEDERATE CONSTITUTION which is largely ... months, and by October, it is replaced by the transcontinental telegraph service. April 12-13, 1861 Although South Carolina had seceded from the Union in December 1860; federal troops continue...

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... began to organize soliders and secure Maryland for operations agnist Virginia, Davis made Richmond ,Virginia his new capatal. From here he began to organize a government and the army. Davis decided to stay strictly on the defensive, which would allow the south to appear at the mercy of an attacking enemy ... jobs out west while Lincoln unwillingly turned all the union forces over to McClellan. Lee had done the incredible in forcing nearly 150,000 federal soliders out of Virginia within two months. He was now to forever change the nature of the war by invading Maryland. The south's ... ...

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... of reasons was financial backing. The French and English governments had been watching the repeated successes that the Confederacy was having. The hope of the southern government was to have a major victory on northern soil and show the French and English it's strength so the foreign governments would decide to provide financial ... Cornfield to. It was a desperate struggle with equal losses on both sides. Over 8,000 people were wounded or dead in just three hours. The Federal Army was now in control of the field from the Cornfield on North, but was still taking effective fire. General ...

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... I have found that it is not as desirable as some had thought, let me tell you about them. There was a government policy, the Federal Mining Act of 1872, where miners could buy federal land for $2.50-$5.00 an acre. Miners wouldn"t have to pay royalties on minerals extracted from their land. Sounds good, but the press had exaggerated when they reported miners were ... work and they reaped the benefits. The railroad industry had encouraged Western settlement after the 1862 Pacific RailRoad Act was passed. This provided government support to the railroad industry. This included public money...

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... right back to slavery. Obviously the Supreme Court didn't make Scott's lawyers, who opposed slavery, very happy. So taking matters into their own hands, they present the case to the U.S. Federal Court in St. Louis. Doing this only made matters worse. In this case it made the defendant John Sanford, Mrs. Emerson's brother, who took responsibility of John Emerson's estate. Since ... he was a native of New York, Scott's lawyers could only file suit in the federal judicial systems, which again ruled against Scott. After that incident Scott and his lawyers had appealed the case to the U.S. S...

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... War activity in the southwest. Today among the 57,000 inhabitants, there are many people who are thankful of what their descendants did to the Federal navy on New Years day of 1883.1 Galveston found itself at the center of a conflicted struggle thanks to the geographic landscape that stimulated settlement of ... . When Magruder's infantry could bear no more, he then sent his two ships into the channel to finish off the Union fleet. With the Federal's cannons still firing on the grounded troops, they were nearly struck by surprise when the Confederates came charging in on them. Ramming wit...

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... primary forms of entertainment were gambling and alcohol. Although Taylor wanted to give statehood to California and New Mexico, these two territories got ahead of him, and had free-states government in operation. On December 4, 1849, Taylor endorsed immediate statehood for California. In January 1850, Clay once again took the role of "Great Compromiser", and presented a package of eight resolutions ... and brought a powerful lobby of bondholders to the support of the compromise. Third, the Utah act set up another territory. Fourth a new Fugitive Slave act put the matter wholly under fe...

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... in one of the most pro-secessionist cities in the entire south. Stephen Douglass was the primary candidate for the democrats. Douglass apposing the federal slave codes kept much of the South from backing his nomination. Former Representative William Yancey of Alabama, former Senator Robert Barnwell Rhett of South ... Carolina, and Senator Robert Toombs of Georgia helped to stage a walk out after the party plank apposing the federal slave code for the territories was adopted. Even though Douglass would go on to have a clear majority in all of the 57 ballots taken ... left to follow their...

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