... therefore it intensified trends already ongoing in their thought and tactics. The Northern attempt to use the federal government to stop the spread of slavery. It convinced many Southerners to highlight the Constitution, narrowly interpreted, at the expense of the "Declaration of Independence" and the principles it protected. If the slaveholders displayed their own collection of existing defensive doctrines in retort to the North's generous collection, they also would move toward a completer security ... of Southern oppression. As Northerners exposed the errors of elder defenses of slav...

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... officers and adopted a constitution and declaration. Drafted by William Lloyd Garrison, the declaration pledged its members to work for emancipation through non-violent actions of "moral suasion," or "the overthrow of prejudice by the power of love." The society encouraged public lectures, publications, civil disobedience, and the boycott of cotton and other slave-manufactured products. The Abolitionist Crusade was controversial because the abolitionist associated with it fought against the government and slave owners for ... were beaten and lynched. Some had their property burned, and ...

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... in both the South and the North saw little similarity between these insurrections and the American Revolution. The Turner massacre was universally depicted as the work of savages and brutes, not of men. Vigilance was tightened, and new laws controlling the slaves were passed throughout the South. Both the violence of the slaves and the verbal abuse of the abolitionists only served to strengthen the South in its defense of the peculiar ... were depicted as beasts who could not be freed because they would endanger society. They were never seen as men whose rights and liberties had been pro...

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By the Treaty of Paris of Sept. 3, 1783, Great Britain formally acknowledged the independence of the United States, and the warring European powers, Britain against France and Spain, with the Dutch as armed neutrals, effected a large-scale peace settlement. The Anglo-American settlement fixed the boundaries of the United States. In the Northeast the line extended from the source of the St. Croix River due north to the highlands separating the rivers flowing to the Atlantic from those draining into the St. Lawrence ... the declaration of war while Southerners supported it. Mexico declared war ...

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... he was opposed at least to the spread of slavery. His response to Douglas in 1854 makes it clear that he is opposed to slavery spreading any further than it already has. "This declared indifference, but as I must think, covert zeal for the spread of slavery I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence criticizing the Declaration of Independence, and insisting that there is no ... right principle of action but self-interest." This speech clearly illustrates Lincoln's belief that slavery in not a morally or constitutionally correct institution ... ...

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... was rapidly becoming a major industrial and commercial nation. However, industry and commerce were centered in the North. The Northerners welcomed modernization and the constant changes it brought to their way of life. Their ideals included hard work, education, economic independence, and the belief that the community had the right and responsibility to decide whether an action was moral or immoral. While Northerners looked forward to ... comes with sword, gun, and cannon to take the life of the nation and overthrow the great American Government (Long 26). "There is no more moving and t...

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... stand publicly and declare his fugitive status, became a prolific lecturer, and published many newspapers during his lifetime which he devoted to causes in the name of  "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"  for  all, as set forth in the United States Declaration of Independence Preface: Some narratives began with a preface and for this book, there is a preface and it begins by William Lloyd Garrison and a ... letter to Douglass from Wendell Phillips, he starts out his preface by telling us how he and Douglass meet. They met at an abolitionist convention and that the former s...

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• Grade Level: High School