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    The Missouri Compromise

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    The Missouri Compromise was a bad solution‚ because it did not solve the slave problem but it was also a good compromise because it lasted for several years and temporarily solved the conflict of whether or not the new states would be slave states or free states. Perhaps the more important aspect of the Missouri Compromise was the agreement that no territory to the north of Missouri’s southern border could enter the Union as a slave state. That part of the compromise effectively stopped slavery from

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    Civil War Compromises

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    Compromise helped delay the Civil War by maintaining the balance of both slave and free states‚ discontinuing the slave trade in Washington D.C. and returning slaves to their original owners with the Fugitive Slave Act‚ The Missouri Compromise of 1820 maintained the balance of slave and free states for 30 years. This kept the North and south satisfied. Missouri was added as a slave state and to sustain the equality between both sides‚ Maine was carved out of Massachusetts and added as a free

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    1850's Dbq

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    1850’s DBQ Essay “In a government where sectional interests and feelings may come into conflict‚ the sole security for permanence and peace is to be found in a Constitution whose provisions are inviolable” (Document B). But‚ what if the answer is not found in the Constitution? At this time there was an increasing sectional conflict between the North and the South. The problems arose mainly from the issue of slavery‚ and came largely after the Mexican war. Although the issue of slavery had never

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    Several years and many events pushed colonists to a point where they wanted to fight for their independence. In 1775 the American Revolution began between Britain and the thirteen colonies. The colonies felt they should be treated a certain way and Britain felt differently on the issue. Americans sought the same rights as Englishmen but Britain wanted to use the colonies in a way that best suited them. Starting in 1754 and ending in 1763 the French and Indian War left the British in enormous debt

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    Break Break Break by Alfred Lord Tennyson The poem ‘Break Break Break’ by Alfred lord Tennyson was written in 1834‚ the year after the death of one of his closest friends; Arthur Henry Hallam. Hallam and Tennyson had been very close for almost six years‚ and Hallam had been engaged to Tennyson’s sister‚ so his fatal brain hemorrhage in 1833 came as a great shock to Lord Tennyson. Hallam’s death affected him so much that nineteen years later he named his son Hallam.The literate subject of the poem

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    Constitution Dbq The Constitution was made in order to keep peace between its people however‚ certain topics were not talked about. As an emerging country many new problems and situations occurred and were brought up. Economically the North and the South were completely different. The constitution failed to address slavery‚ which was important to the South By not addressing this topic the North and the South began having tension between each other. Not talking about slavery backfired because the

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    Attempts at and Failure of Compromise The Path to Civil War Ms. Wallace • Sobrato High School Thursday‚ November 3‚ 2011 It all started at the Constitutional Convention The Three-Fifths Compromise Allowed southern states to count 3/5 of their slave populations for purposes of determining how many representatives they would receive in Congress. Since the number of electors a state receives in the electoral college is based on the number of members of Congress it has‚ this also led to Thomas Jefferson’s

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    From the 1760s to the 1860s opposition to slavery grew and morphed‚ culminating in the outbreak of the American Civil War. The writing of the Three-Fifths Clause‚ in 1787 (Source 1) reveals how‚ from the birth of the Union‚ the issue of slavery forced sides to come to uneasy compromises. Slavery at this time was purely a political and economic issue. Throughout the 100 years however‚ the opposition to slavery evolved. The formation the single issue party‚ The Free Soil party‚ in 1848‚ symbolised

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    BREAKBREAKBREAK (1834)   Breakbreakbreak‚  [s1]  On thy cold gray stones[s2] ‚ O Sea!  [s3]  And I would that my tongue could utter  [s4]  The thoughts that arise in me[s5] .  (Unable to articulate the deep emotion – anger and resentment at nature)   O[s6] ‚ well for the fisherman’s boy‚  That he shouts with his sister at play!  O‚ well for the sailor lad‚  That he sings in his boat on the bay!  [s7]   (what he sees – he sees time passing – focus on the play of the youth

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    Missouri Compromise Dbq

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    The Missouri Compromise is commonly thought of as the beginning of American sectionalism‚ although the signs were visible long before 1819. The crisis solved by the compromise certainly alerted the South for the need for political unity in order to maintain its way of life in the face of a more populous North. Likewise‚ it alerted both regions to the political problems inherent in westward expansion. The Missouri Compromise did not create sectionalism‚ but it is important as the first possible signs

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