... that sprang up in the region. Because of the climate difference and rocky terrain, the North was able to develop a more industrialized economy based on trade (Document A). A major resource that the north had that the south did not was fast flowing rivers. These fast flowing rivers powered the machinery of ... land in the West. The Compromise of 1850 was created to appease both regions; it stated that California was to enter the Union as a free state but that Utah and New Mexico would decide upon the issue based on the concept of popular sovereignty (Document C). The concept of popular so...

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... avoided if the south wasn't so dependent on cotton profit, but they had been left behind by northerners who were more economically diverse due to trade and industrialism. The south made a living off of the cash crop cotton, being known as King Cotton, manufacturing the cotton production in the union. The ... in the north and south. In the year 1860, it can be seen that the North had way more railroads than the south, showing the importance of trade in the North rather than the South. Also, shown in Document B, the map displays the importance of slavery in the south, conveying that the ma...

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... that the proclamation was strictly a military tactic so that the edict remained constitutional. The EP declared all slaves in the ten rebel states free, and indicated that the government will recognize and maintain' their freedom. The document also announced the Union's intention to enlist black men in ... British had intervened in the war between the states and taken sides with the Confederacy, they would have been seen as pro-slavery. Instead, trade decreased between Great Britain and the Confederacy and so South's military endeavors were weakened. "Public opinion in Great Britain and ...

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... unity of the nation even as early as the Constitutional Convention. Although some Quakers were slaveholders, members of that religious group were among the earliest to protest the African slave trade, the perpetual bondage of its captives, and the practice of separating enslaved family members by sale to different masters. As the nineteenth century progressed, many abolitionists united to form ... have been the Thirteenth Amendment, to guarantee the right of slaveholders to hold slaves forever. As Eric Foner told us thirty years ago, the Republican Party's call for free soil, free labor...

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... had speculated that they "were not an intrinsic part of american society." He believed that the "government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free." Lincoln had truly concluded that blacks and whites could not live among each other without being moderately equal. He began to think "of the United ... country would become segregated. Like all men, Lincoln was unsure of what would happen once slavery ended. His first "impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia to their own native land," which leads to the idea of colonization for African Americans. Lincoln...

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... , which was also known as the Missouri Compromise. This compromise was formed at a time when there was equilibrium between slave and Free states, with eleven of each. The Missouri Compromise was an attempt to maintain the balance in the Senate. As Maine was admitted as ... a free state, Missouri was simultaneously added as a slave state. Furthermore, the latitude line of 36-30 (the southern border of Missouri) was set ... conspiracy was to suppress all abolitionist dissent. The second was to repeal the Missouri Compromise and extend slavery into the territories. The next was to expand it...

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... , the territories of New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah would be organized without mention of slavery. Regarding Washington, the slave trade would be abolished in the District of Columbia, although slavery would still be permitted. 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. To pacify slave-state politicians, who would have objected to the imbalance created by adding another free state, the Fugitive Slave Act was passed. The Compromise ...

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... thought by some anti-slavery groups in America that slavery would die out because America had in 1808 stopped the participation in the international slave trade, which meant no supplies of new slaves would be coming in. But this theory proved wrong because slavery in the south began to expand ... This act meant that all American citizens had to help recapture fugitive slaves and that all Negroes were assumed slaves unless they could prove they were free. Douglass also established the abolitionist newspaper North Star, which he edited until 1860. Books such as Harriet Beecher Stowe's nov...

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... in 1808 that slavery would die an inevitable death, albeit slowly and perhaps incompletely. The importation of slaves was ceased, although the domestic slave trade continued to prosper. The invention of the cotton gin helped bolster the increased importation and retention of slaves, as this new device although more ... issue for themselves Popular Sovereignty. Although from our modern perspective, it sometimes appears as if the Northern states (and those who inhabited them) were free of the prejudice more visible in the south, this was not usually the case. Deeply held prejudice and raci...

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... known that they could not settle the differences between the states committed to slavery and those oppossed. The three-fifths rule, the constitutional promise not to halt the international slave trade until 1808, and the banning of slavery in the Northwest Territory were all attempts to avoid confronting differences between the North and South. Some Northerners thought Southerners would recognize the ... president in 1800. But by the 1830s the market revolution had tied Northeastern factories and Northwestern farms into a roughly unified, commercialized North. Most Northerners were comm...

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... laws open for vague interpretations. The preference for the white indentured servants quickly decreased, as the planter felt financially disadvantaged as more white slaves earned freedom. In the meantime, slave trade grows as the economy is stimulated and the British want a piece of the pie. In 1775, the tensions between British authorities and the new settlers lead to the Revolutionary War ... . During the first half of the 19th century, the country migrated west. The north was against slavery spreading into new states. An intuitive plan was devised by pro-slavery and "free soil" factio...

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