...The Antebellum era in America was a time of rapid reformation that largely shaped the future framework of the nation we live in today. The reformists in any and all of the movements sought to unify like minds to force change in society that they believed to be unjust or a hindrance to self-betterment. Many of their goals were successful, and the effects of the reformists can still be seen to this day. With their willingness to fight for equality and improved quality of life, the reformists in early America helped change the habits of citizens, the education of the American youth, the criminal justice system, the advancement of women’s rights in society, and ignited the debate on slavery more than it had ever been. The temperance crusade could...
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...In 1794 Eli Whitney invented one of the most significant machines in United States history, the cotton gin. What the cotton gin did was that it allowed cotton to be picked faster and easier. This influx of cotton aided the North in the manufacturing side, which led to a stable and reliable economy, and later a stable U.S. government. Because of the stabilizing U.S., many critics consider the Antebellum Period (1825-1850) as dull, characterless, and constant. However, through social discipline, education, and alcohol temperance, one can adjust to see that the reform movements during the Antebellum Period actually expanded democratic ideals. The Antebellum Period was marked and progressed along a time where no social discipline existed. During...
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...The experiences that women of the antebellum period were similar because all female were denied of rights that the men had the privilege to. During the antebellum era, women of both colors, black and white, experienced the same segregation from men. All women of color were responsible of domestic work such as taking care of the children, the house, and the whole family in general. “All women were expected to be the guardian of nursery and companion of childhood.” (Doc F) This caused the women of the antebellum period to be confined in their homes and rarely show their faces to the public much less have a part in politics, leaving them with little to no opportunities that are given to the men. Which leads to the next topic about equal opportunities...
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...Veer Shah AP United States History DBQ Essay #3: “American period between 1860-1880” The historic period prior to the 1860s was the most underlying era in American society as it led to the bloodiest war in the American history, the Civil war. Prior to the Civil war, the American politics were sectionally divided between the Northern Republicans and the Southern Democrats. The political culture was almost saturated as both sections had realized that the numerous compromises would only provoke questions and dissimilarities between them, with the largely interfered question of slavery and suffrage. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 had been implemented as a nationwide direction towards admitting states with reference the 36° 30´ latitude line, either as a free-state (above line) or as a slave state (below the line). Despite of the temporary success of the compromise of 1820, it was repealed by the Stephen A. Douglas in 1854 in his Kansas-Nebraska Act. Likewise, the Compromise of 1850, created by the Great Compromiser, Henry Clay, was an effort to preserve the Union by settling the issue of slavery in the newly acquired territories from the Mexican-American War. Although it assured a temporary peaceful settlement between the sections, it failed to give birth to the Civil war and the rise in sectionalism. Although all these compromises had served their desired intents, politically as well as socially, in turn, they only played a catalyst role in increasing the tensions...
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