Prompt One The “diffusion theory,” Eli Whitney’ cotton gin, the Louisiana Purchase and the War of 1812 all are tied together and largely effected the outcome of slavery in 1800s. These events all lead to one another and forever changed the face of slavery in the United States. Thomas Jefferson’s “diffusion theory” was the first of this series of events. Jefferson believed that selling “surplus” slaves from the east and moving them westward would help to put an end to slavery. By the
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John C. Calhoun In a small town called Abbeville, South Carolina the year 1782, the 7th vice president of the the United States, John C. Calhoun was born March 18th. First of all, in 1804 Calhoun graduated from Yale College, this where he then started his political career. He was known for protecting minority rights in the south, defense against slavery, and “concurrent majority”. Calhoun was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1808, four years right after college. Once, he
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As the nation came close to approaching it's third year of civil war, president Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. Shortly after conquering the battle of antietam, the war for the union became a war for freedom. The Emancipation Proclamation was finite in many ways, as it concerned only states that had seceded from the Union, but it managed to liberate the lives of four million slaves. The Emancipation Proclamation did not immediately end slavery, but it inspired
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A person could say that Felix Stidger was a notorious criminal, but yet that person would be a southern. Stidger’s involvement in the civil war was quite significant. At the beginning of the war he enlisted as a union assistant accountant. As the war eventually went on he had to go back to his mother because she was ill(Civil War Terror). During his leave two rebel scavengers robbed his house. His mom war traumatized and died later that week. This event also majorly affected Felix Stidger, it also
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Thomas Jackson is considered by many as one of the greatest generals in U.S. history. Jackson was involved in two wars. Of the two wars, he is most known for his leadership in the civil war as a confederate general. Jackson was involved in the first real battle of the Civil War, in which he led 10,000 troops. Though Jackson had a good military career, other parts of his life were filled with bad memories of close ones dieing. Thomas Jackson was born January 21, 1824 in Clarksburg Virginia.
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I, Fredrick White, and my colleagues have successfully passed the 13th Amendment which has officially abolished slavery. This success was an immense victory to us Radical Republicans. We are in celebration of this amendment and a step closer of bettering Freedmen’s lives since the abolition of slavery has become the law of the land. We were very lucky to have added this quickly, because if the Southern States had been accepted into the Union we wouldn’t have been able to pass the amendment. I still
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Daniel Drew was born on July 29, 1797 in Carmel, New York. He was raised on his family’s farm and didn’t get much schooling. In 1812 Daniel Drew’s father, Gilbert Drew, passed away, causing Daniel to join the army while he was 15 years old. Drew, after The War of 1812, started working as a cattle drover and horse trader, taking cattle from upstate New York and moving them into New York City. Later, his business was extended into Ohio and Illinois. In 1834, Drew challenged Cornelius Vanderbilt by
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C.Scott v. Sanford(1857) D. This case dealt with the slave known as Dred Scott who escaped from Missouri to Illinois to become a free man and later went back to Missouri to sue for his freedom from his owner by claiming that because he had resided in a free territory he should be free. His owner argued that because he was of only african descent that he could not be a citizen under the constitution. E. Is Dred Scott considered a free man because he escaped to Illinois and live there for a while or
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John Paul Jones changed history. He intercepted the warship Serapis that helped gain America’s independence. If Jones didn’t defeat the Serapis America would have had a much harder time gaining its independence and a lot more casualties. Jones was a very important man when comes to America’s history. Now we can live in independence thanks to John Paul Jones. John Paul Jones was born in Scotland, 1742. Jones’ career at sea started at age 13 and he served on a merchant ship in Whitehaven
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Between the years of 1820 and 1865, the debate of slavery was vivid to the American people and the main focus was on what the economic, political and moral gains were. This period of forty-five years were critical in the development towards the American Civil War. With the hardships in Congress and the happenings in the South, it was no surprise that this issue was so controversial and personal. The supporters of slavery argued that despite the current ideas of what slavery was, there were a multitude
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