... it appeared that armed conflict might result if South Carolina seceded from the Union. The crisis was finally put to rest in 1833 when a compromise was reached on a new tariff. But the Nullification Crisis demonstrated that political disputes between various regions of the nation caused severe tensions to develop between free and slave ... America there would be no other option but expanding. Out of the tensions and failures to compromise the Republican Party was born. Historians have long considered the presidential election of 1860 as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the Civil...

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... (Document F). This lawsuit was unsuccessful due to the fact that Scott was only considered property, and therefore had no rights in order to sue his master. Because of the decision reached in the case of Dred Scott, abolitionist John Brown decided to present his racial ideals and take action in order to convey the message that slavery was morally wrong. After ... he felt that the spread of slavery had to be put to an end (Document E). An immediate result of this act was the emergence of a new Republican party; on the issue of slavery, this party stated that they would not touch slavery ...

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... why it is unknown if slavery could have been abolished at this time or not was being the brothers kept the subject of slavery silent. Shortly "before Jefferson's dinner party, two Quaker delegations presented a petition to the House of Representatives calling for the end to the African Slave trade" (Ellis 81). The House of Representative Members, such as James ... government ever tried to change the laws on slavery. Although the North and South did manage to make a bargain that Ellis described as the "most important compromise to be reached at the Constitutional Convention known as the ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate