civil war
1. The Civil War will claim 600,000 American lives. According to the reading that is the equivalent of how many Trade Tower attacks?
The death toll of the Civil War is equivalent to a Trade Tower disaster occurring every Tuesday for four years.
2. Why would the framers of the Constitution not even mention the word 'slavery' in the Constitution?
The framers of the Constitution didn’t mention the word ‘slavery’ because they feared that the Southern states would not then join the new government.
3. How was the 3/5 Clause a compromise?
The 3/5 Clause was a compromise because it gave slave states the right to count slaves as three-fifths of a person in order to pad their representation in the House but denied any right of citizenship to those slaves. States’ leaders chose to compromise rather than tear the US apart.
4. Why did the balance of free and slave states have to be maintained?
North and south both feared that the other would overpower it in Congress.
5. How does the Compromise of 1820 accomplish this?
The Missouri Compromise decided that slavery would be prohibited north of the southern boundary of Missouri.
6. How was the nation divided on the issue of tariffs?
On the issue of tariffs, the US were divided because the South had little industry, it bought many manufactured goods either from Europe or from protected Northern businesses.
7. What does it mean to "nullify" a law? How does that support "state's rights"?
To “nullify” a law meant making them null and void within that state. This raised the issue of states’ rights as states had the final say on which laws they will obey.
8. In 1850 the nation was evenly divided free and slave states. How does the Compromise of 1850 try to solve the impending problem of California coming in a free state?
California pressed Congress for admission as a free state, and it was admitted as a free state and they slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia.
9. What is "Popular
The death toll of the Civil War is equivalent to a Trade Tower disaster occurring every Tuesday for four years.
2. Why would the framers of the Constitution not even mention the word 'slavery' in the Constitution?
The framers of the Constitution didn’t mention the word ‘slavery’ because they feared that the Southern states would not then join the new government.
3. How was the 3/5 Clause a compromise?
The 3/5 Clause was a compromise because it gave slave states the right to count slaves as three-fifths of a person in order to pad their representation in the House but denied any right of citizenship to those slaves. States’ leaders chose to compromise rather than tear the US apart.
4. Why did the balance of free and slave states have to be maintained?
North and south both feared that the other would overpower it in Congress.
5. How does the Compromise of 1820 accomplish this?
The Missouri Compromise decided that slavery would be prohibited north of the southern boundary of Missouri.
6. How was the nation divided on the issue of tariffs?
On the issue of tariffs, the US were divided because the South had little industry, it bought many manufactured goods either from Europe or from protected Northern businesses.
7. What does it mean to "nullify" a law? How does that support "state's rights"?
To “nullify” a law meant making them null and void within that state. This raised the issue of states’ rights as states had the final say on which laws they will obey.
8. In 1850 the nation was evenly divided free and slave states. How does the Compromise of 1850 try to solve the impending problem of California coming in a free state?
California pressed Congress for admission as a free state, and it was admitted as a free state and they slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia.
9. What is "Popular