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    Disputes of 1820-1860s

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    Resolving disputes threw compromise no longer seemed possible. These dispute took place in the United States during 1820-1860. Some political disputes such as Slavery‚ political leaders‚ and successions of states made it hard for compromise. Slavery is one of the main disputes that were not compromised. Northerners thought that slavery was wrong while southerners thought that slavery was needed. Northerners wanted to end slavery as quick as possible. Slavery goes against god’s law and should

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    Amr Sadek November 4‚ 2012 U.S. History In what ways did developments in transportation bring about economic and social change in the United States in the period 1820-1860? Development in transportation helped each area of the United States. Those areas were the South‚ North and the new west. Transportation helped each area develop economically and socially. Transportation helped by making the South making money by sending cotton to the north so they can manufacture clothes. This helped

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    American Antislavery 1820-1860  The antebellum American antislavery movement began in the 1820s and was sustained over 4 decades by organizations‚ publications‚ and small acts of resistance that challenged the legally protected and powerful institution of slavery and the more insidious enemy of black equality‚ racism. Abolitionists were always a radical minority even in the free states of the North‚ and the movement was never comprised of a single group of people with unified motivations‚ goals

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    The political compromise during the period of 1820 to 1860 was unable to reduce sectional tension during this time period. According to Tom Meltzer and Jean H. Bennett‚ in their book CRACKING THE AP U.S. HISTORY EXAM‚ “The new period of expansion resulted in a national debate over slavery‚ as would every period of expansion to follow until the Civil War resolved the slavery question.” The Missouri Compromise‚ the Compromise of 1850‚ and… were just a quick fix for the inevitable to come‚ the civil

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    Compromise * Missouri Compromise (1820) -It didn’t allow slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north except Missouri. Allowed Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. * Compromise of 1850 ( 1850) - Admit California as a free state; uphold popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah; Includes Fugitive Slave Act; Settles Texas/New Mexico border disputes; Ban slave trade in Washington D.C * Kansas Nebraska Act (1854) - Divide the Kansas territory into Kansas

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    Between the years of 1790 and 1860 and eventually leading up to the Civil War in 1861‚ sectionalism was a growing issue in the United States. In the early nineteenth century‚ westward expansion was starting and taking place‚ which ultimately started sectionalism. The Federal Government was very encouraging towards settlers moving and expanding west‚ angering the northern states. They believed that if they expanded west‚ all their best laborers would be taken away from them. The North was fighting

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    DBQ: Political Disputes: 1820-1860 Political Disputes use to be handled out calmly‚ but as the years went by‚ people from both the North and the South had political disputes as well as personal disputes (physical arguments). In the time period of the Missouri Compromise‚ (In 1820)‚ political and personal disputes began to rise in both the North and South. Disagreements use to be settled out very calmly‚ but soon disagreements became out of hand. The North and South had personal disputes. In

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    Sectionalism

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    Sectionalism Essay During the 1850’s‚ slavery‚ a southern necessity both socially and economically‚ threatened the unity of our nation. The tension’s were high between the North and South‚ and further increased as more and more factors contributed to the strain in the Union. As an outcome of these factors‚ small and big‚ sectional hatred began to arise and commenced the splitting of the nation; ultimately leading to the American Civil War. The very first issue that caused sectionalism in the 1850’s

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    . The nullification controversy of 1832 was a major milestone in the national debate over federal versus state authority. Coming at a time when agitation over slavery and other issues that tended to divide the country along sectional lines was growing‚ the nullification controversy brought the states’ rights debate into sharp focus. The root of the problem of protective tariffs is that they are almost by definition designed to assist certain segments of the economy. In the era in question‚ the

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    Sectionalism

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    The United States was growing and needed to expand and a nationalist feeling had swept the nations as the people wanted a strong and secure nation. As the nation expanded sectionalism escalated over slavery issues which divided the nation into the northern free states and the southern slave states. Each had representatives and senators and the more free or slave states‚ the more influence they had in the government to preserve slavery abolish it. Almost all in the North wanted to stop the expansion

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