... leave. The fourth theory was advocated by Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis, one of state sovereignty, also 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. ... base of the Shenandoah Valley, a strategy similar to the tactics Sherman later employed in Georgia. Meanwhile, Sherman maneuvered from Chattanooga to Atlanta, defeating Confederat...

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• Grade Level: High School

... leave. The fourth theory was advocated by Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis, one of state sovereignty, also 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. ... base of the Shenandoah Valley, a strategy similar to the tactics Sherman later employed in Georgia. Meanwhile, Sherman maneuvered from Chattanooga to Atlanta, defeating Confederat...

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• Has Bibliography

... of Delilah and Daniel Jacobs. Her father was a carpenter, while her mother was a house slave. Jacobs grew up with a younger brother by the name of John S. Jacobs. She enjoyed a relatively normal, happy family life up until she was six years old when her mother passed, and her father followed soon after in ... born in 1833. After escaping to the North in 1842 at age 27, Harriet started working as a nursemaid, and in 1849 Harriet and her younger brother John began working in the Anti- Slavery office and reading room in Rochester, New York, and there they meet Fredrick Douglas, Amy Post, ...

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... philosophy and method. While many white abolitionists focused only on slavery, black Americans tended to couple anti-slavery activities with demands for racial equality and justice. Some famous abolitionists are John Brown, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth. In 1833, sixty abolitionist leaders from ten states met in Philadelphia to create a national organization to bring about ... the territories. Sectional conflict was intensified by the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision, which declared that Congress could not exclude slavery from the western territories...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate