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    Slavery and Civil War

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    heard of slavery wanted to free slaves. This need of slaves caused the beginning of the Civil War. Many acts and comprises as Kansas Nebraska Act‚ Bleeding Kansas‚ Compromise of 1850 and the new Fugitive Slave Law. These acts prove that slavery was the cause of the civil war. The Kansas Nebraska Act was a act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska‚ opening new lands for settlement‚ and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories

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    compromise and prevent war were the Compromise of 1850‚ The Kansas-Nebraska Act‚ and The Corwin Amendment. The Compromise of 1850 was unsuccessful in preventing the Civil War because it was made up of 5 bills that tried to resolve the dispute over slavery for the new territories. California was admitted to be a free state while the United States left Utah and New Mexico to decide if they wanted to be a free state or slave state. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was unsuccessful in preventing war because it allowed

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    issues but usually only led to temporary resolving of the problems c. slavery was the cause of the sectional tensions d. while cotton was king in the South‚ the North was rapidly industrializing 2. Thesis a. The Compromise of 1820‚ the Kansas-Nebraska Act‚ and the Compromise of 1850 were ineffective in reducing the sectional tensions in the period 1820-1861. II. Body Paragraph 1. 1. Compromise of 1820 i. The Facts: 1. Maine enters as a free state 2. Missouri enters as a slave state 3. Slavery

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    all the States‚ old as well as new -- North as well as South. Have we no tendency to the latter condition? Let any one who doubts carefully contemplate that now almost complete legal combination-piece of machinery‚ so as to speak-compounded of the Nebraska doctrine and the Dred Scott decision. Let him consider not only what work the ma- chinery is adapted to do‚ and how well adapted‚ but also let him study the history of its construction‚ and trace‚ if he can‚ or rather fail‚ if he can‚ to trace the

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    Allen Pensick is currently the Provost at St. George’s University‚ St. George’s Grenada. He was born in Nebraska‚ a rural Midwestern U.S. state. While living in Nebraska Dr. Pensick was a farmer‚ horse trainer and also a faculty member at the University of Nebraska. He attended the University of Nebraska as a student for all his tertiary education including Bachelors‚ Masters and PhD. Back in Nebraska he was fairly involved in the community; he was a member of various clubs such as the Eagles

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    offenders’ social media usage‚ and then look at the causes of this problem‚ and finally investigate a solution to end it. II. Body A. The problem at hand is that there are no laws in Nebraska regulating sex offenders’ use of social media sites‚ leaving the Omaha in danger of possible repeat offenders. 1. In October‚ Nebraska U.S. district Judge Richard Komph rejected a law that would’ve banned sex offenders from social media sites‚ according to the Omaha World-Herald article “Judge

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    |What were the advantages and |Popular sovereignty meant that the sovereign people of a territory should determine the statues of | |disadvantages of popular |slavery.   It was popular with politicians because it was a comfortable compromise between the | |sovereignty? |abolitionists and the slaver-holders. | |Why was the Free-Soil party |The Free Soil Party emerged.  It was formed

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    Running Head: BLUNDERING GENERATION 1 The “Blundering Generation” in the Civil War Camila Alvarez AP U.S. History Period 2 BLUNDERING GENERATION Abstract This paper explores the term coined by James G. Randall on 1940 “Blundering Generation”‚ which encompasses the “real” reasons that lead to the Civil War and blames the political leaders of the Era‚ the mistakes they made‚ their inability to compromise‚ and the way the Civil War was actually‚ and probably still is‚ romanticized

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    union. Many people argue that the Constitution‚ which was a symbol of the national unity‚ contributed to its division. This is true in some ways‚ but it did not happen immediately. Many events‚ such as the passing of the Fugitive Slave and Kentucky-Nebraska Acts‚ gradually built up the tension between North and South‚ until the union collapsed. Even though the Compromise of 1850 was meant to solve the crisis‚ it only created more tension between the north and south. The main purposes of the compromise

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    Civil War inevitable

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    depended highly on slavery because of the "cotton king". One of these territories included the Kansas-Nebraska where many newcomers and the proslavery settlers began to move into the territory. In this territory after the 1852 election‚ the temporary peace of the Compromise of 1850 came to an end. Senator Stephen Douglas passes the Kansas-Nebraska Act which created two new territories of Kansas and Nebraska. The status of slavery in the area was decided to be by popular sovereignty. This act wrecked two

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