Kaitlin Fernlund Martig Period 2 DBQ In 1782 Americans won their independence from Britain in the American Revolution. After the colonies won their independence‚ Americans created the Constitution. Its purpose was to replace the Articles of Confederation and solve its problems and more importantly to bring the states together under a single document creating a stronger union of all the states. During the period of 1850‚ until 1861 when the Confederate States of America was formed‚ the union
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Betsy Rivera Period 5 12-15-10 1850 If we were to write down everything that throughout life had made us become who we are now‚ we would make a long list discussing different events that happened to us in different years. The United States history in such a matter is similar to that. Many years had to pass in order to make America what it is today. Since the beginning of American history many people and events had made each year differ from one another. When you are talking about the United
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In 1782 Americans won their independence from Britain in the American Revolution. After the colonies won their independence‚ Americans created the Constitution. Its purpose was to replace the Articles of Confederation and solve its problems and more importantly to bring the states together under a single document creating a stronger union of all the states. There was one problem though: there were a few fundamental issues that the framers could not agree on. In the early nineteenth century the United
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Populist and Progressive Reform in American History Throughout American history‚ reform was common among people of a particular‚ race‚ gender‚ or class used to accomplish change. The emergence of the populist and progressive movements were a response to the changing climate in American society due to rapid industrialization‚ an ethnically diverse personality of a young nation‚ and birth of American imperialism. Disgruntled American farmers that wished to advance their economic position initiated
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issues that faced northern areas were different from those that faced the South. When new territories were added to the nation‚ it was politically relevant that they were added in such a way that the balance of power was maintained. The Compromise of 1850 addressed this balance. The Compromise was a group of five laws that addressed slavery and overturned the Missouri Compromise. The climate of the time quickly becomes one of the northern states against
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The Compromise of 1850 President Taylor dies in the midst of the controversy in 1850. This added to the already growing amount of tension between the union and the North and South. Vice President Millard Fillmore took over the reins and jumped into a huge mess within the states. Henry Clay‚ U.S. senator from Kentucky‚ was determined to find a solution. In 1820 he had resolved a fiery debate over the spread of slavery with his Missouri Compromise. Now‚ thirty years later‚ the matter surfaced again
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AP U.S. History 1850’s- The Decade of Crisis 1. Wilmot Proviso was an amendment proposed‚ by democrat David Wilmot‚ to the bill for peace with Mexico in 1846. The amendment stated that all land attained in the treaty with Mexico would be slave free. This proposed amendment would be a debated for years and set out a pressing issue dealing with westward expansion. Southerners thought it was unfair because‚ “all Americans should have equal rights‚ including the right to move their property.”
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The 1850’s were one of a chaotic time in American history. The North and the South were fighting over the slavery issues such as its legality‚ and the south’s economic dependency on it. The North viewed slavery as immoral and unconstitutional‚ but the South wanted slavery to stay because it was the South’s right to do so. Africans were long viewed by other people as the lowest beings‚ as property; therefore‚ in their favor the constitution justified slavery‚ William Lloyd Garrison even went as far
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“To retain such fugitive in his custody‚ and to remove him to the State whence he fled‚ and there to deliver him to said claimant.” Much of the slave population was feed up with being retained from the outside world. African Americans were discriminated because of the color of their skin‚ and then forced to do free labor under cruel conditions. So slave men then started to rebel against the laws of 1793‚ and started to make escape plans. They were running away from slavery‚ and running towards
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The Compromise of 1850 was a series of measures proposed by Henry Clay. It was passed by Congress in an effort to settle outstanding issues with slavery and to avert the threat of dissolution of the Union. The crisis arose from the request of California admitted to the Union as a free state. The problem was complicated by the unresolved question of slavery’s extension into other areas ceded by Mexico the preceding year. Clay’s purpose was to maintain a balance between free and slave states and to
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