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- 351: Abraham Lincoln
- ... Lincoln was well known and he got the election. Abe began to study law, and in 1836 became a licensed attorney. In 1837 he made his first public stand against slavery, Lincoln avoided extreme abolitionist groups though he was greatly against slavery. On November 4, 1842 Lincoln married Mary Todd, whom he spent the rest of his life with. He became a United States Congressman, although he was an amateur, his goal ... to make his mark. What might of made him fulfill this goal was the fact that he never lost confidence in himself. Years went by, and Abraham could not stand slavery any more, he was elected by the republican party to do something about it. On March 4, 1861, Lincoln was sworn in as president of the United States of ...
- 352: Huckleberry Finn
- ... many goals in mind. Initially he wants to break away from society where he thinks "civilization" is totally unneeded. Along with this his counter part, Jim, is running away from slavery, and that to them is totally opposite to what they learned from their hypocritical society. Also the wanted to gain personal truth to their own existence. The river in this ... or being returned back to where they started, back to being "civilized", where Huck would live properly and be taught how to act right and Jim would go back into slavery. The first encounter Huck and Jim had outside society was with a gang of thugs on a shipwrecked boat in the middle of a storm. While Huck boards the ship ... to free Jim, Huck gets an idea. He goes to find Tom Sawer. The two of them team up and makes plans to free Jim. Jim being put back into slavery was not the goal of their long strenuous journey so they would have done anything to get Jim free of this thing called slavery. Huck and Tom both knew ...
- 353: Phyllis Wheatley
- ... as she is transported on a slave ship from West Africa to Boston in July 1761, which begins the poem under analysis. In this voyage, she is still indentured into slavery, indicating that she has no material possessions of her own. Slavery has also stripped her of any feelings of self-worth or emotional well-being, through its harsh treatment and totalitarian control. Like a slave master, she views herself as no ... however, I think that because of the way she chooses to identify her race as “benighted,” “diabolic,” and needing to “be refined,” she denigrates it just as the system of slavery does, shaping white skin into the mold for the perfect human being in her mind.. And because she chooses Christianity and European-base ways of life, Wheatley encounters feelings ...
- 354: The Compromise of Henry Clay
- ... a Southerner would benefit from in the compromise. All the compromise does is give the Northerners a few bonuses so that hopefully they will get off of our cases about slavery. It really doesn’t bother me what happens in the west, or in the District of Columbia. All that really is a concern to me is how many crops I ... the compromise to me as a Northerner is that it doesn’t offer that which I want. As a person of the North, I am interested in the abolition of slavery. I will not be fooled by a so-called compromise that doesn’t include that which I really want. As an abolitionist, the only good part of the bill is that California is admitted as a free state. While this does strengthen the abolitionist movement, it does not ban slavery. By agreeing to this compromise, I would be saying that I was satisfied with the South having slavery as long as California did not have it. This is not ...
- 355: The Presidents' Decisions During The Civil War
- ... 1800's the United States was severely torn over sectional issues, being political, social as well as economic in nature. The principle struggle between the North and South arose over slavery. This controversy came to be so divisive that the Southern Democrats who favored the continuation and expansion of the slave institution, threatened to secede if Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Candidate who favored the containment of slavery where it had previously existed, was elected to serve as the President of the United States. Lincoln did win the Election of 1860 and even before his inauguration on March ... from his Secretary of State, William H. Seward, Seward encouraged the withdrawal of troops from Fort Sumter. He hoped to prevent it from widening the divisions among the states concerning slavery. In addition he referred to the problem as having arisen because of the delayed and wavering actions made by the previous administration under Buchanan. At the same time Jefferson ...
- 356: Underground Railroad
- ... That man was Tice Davids, a Kentucky slave who decided to live in freedom in 1831. The primary importance of the Underground Railroad was the on going fight to abolish slavery, the start of the civil war, and it was being one of our nation’s first major anti-slavery movements. The history of the railroad is quite varied according to whom you are talking. Slavery in America thrived and continued to grow because there was a scarcity of labor. Cultivation of crops on plantations could be supervised while slaves used simple routines to harvest ...
- 357: Immigration
- ... immigration 1607-1830 Political Freedom Religious Tolerance Economic Opportunity - People want a better life - better job - more money Political Refugees fear for their lives Some want free atmosphere Forced Immigration (Slavery) Family Reunification There are two types of motivation for immigration Push(need to leave in order to survive) Pull (attracted to new way of life) 1830-1890 The reason for ... opportunity to get a job. Opportunities for and success of immigrants 1607-1830 Employment In the case of African Americans, employment was plentiful, but it came in the form of slavery Most Scotch Irish became frontier farmers Some were able to rise in the world, such as in politics Living conditions Living conditions varied depending upon the slave owner The slaves ... in North America. Others landed as slaves in the West Indies and were later resold and shipped to the mainland. The story of how these African-Americans were freed from slavery and gained political freedom has become a part of history. Some famous leaders during that time were Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesse Jackson, and Malcolm X. African Americans have ...
- 358: What Is Meant By The Era Of Good Feelings
- ... To represent the South he appointed John C. Calhoun as secretary of war. In an attempt to create a government of unification, a major problem is encountered, the issue of slavery. In 1819 the number of slave and free states was equal. Then, Missouri applied to the Union as a slave state. Northern politicians protested Missouri’s admission, because they did ... an advantage in the Senate, because they were outnumbered in the House of Representatives. More importantly though, southerners did not believe the federal government had sovereignty in the area of slavery. They viewed slavery as matters of property, therefore making it a state issue not a federal one. The solution to this problem came in the form of the Missouri Compromise. The Union ...
- 359: Beloved
- After the abolishment of slavery, the black community became the core of African American culture and life. This was due in part by segregation and other socioeconomic factors, but also to the spiritual and social unity of each black member. The black community played a major role in Beloved, especially with their interactions witah Sethe. After Sethe's escape from slavery, she traveled to Cincinnati to reunite with her children and mother-in-law, Baby Suggs. She arrived at 124, a house constantly filled with people and happiness. "Where not one ... community, began to build a life for herself and children, but her dreams were soon shattered when the Schoolteacher came into her yard. Because of her fear of returning to slavery and her sense of hopelessness, Sethe resorted to animal brutality, ending her daughter's life so as not to endure one of degradation and abuse. She acted on instinct, ...
- 360: Book Report - Lies My Teacher
- ... of the Indians and hopefully ending with the blacks. The Indians were the first to be discriminated against, first by the Spanish then by the colonials. It all started with slavery then it escalated into slaughter and confiscation of their lands and back again to slavery. Slavery of course had been around prior to 1492 however, the new world seemed to nurture and propagate it. Even after slavery was abolished in the United States in 1865, ...
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