Posted in American History, History, Slavery, to 1877 on January 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is the fourth and final enstallment of my paper on slavery in America.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was yet another sectional conflict that arose over the creation of new states or territories. Many in the North were anxious to see the Nebraska Territory organized to allow a cross-country railroad to have its terminus in the [...]
Posted in AMU, American History, History, Slavery, to 1877 on January 25, 2007 | 13 Comments »
Compromise of 1820
One such crisis arose in 1819. The territory of Missouri requested statehood in the
Union. In the House of Representatives, James Tallmadge of New York sponsored a plan to restrict slavery in Missouri though it had sought to join the Union as a slave state. At this point in the young Republic, the balance [...]
Posted in AMU, American History, History, Slavery, to 1877 on January 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Part II of our look at slavery in America focuses on the War of Independance and the Constituion. Please submit any thoughts or questions in the comments section.
The American Revolution
For slaves, the Revolution was not as much a struggle for the right to cast a vote or have only fair taxes levied, but the right to [...]
Posted in AMU, American History, History, Slavery, to 1877 on January 22, 2007 | 6 Comments »
For my History class, I had to write an eight to twelve page paper tracing the hisotry of slavery in America, covering several specific events. The following, posted in a series over several days (no one wants to read a 12 page research paper in one sitting), is my response. For the record I scored a [...]
Posted in History, WWI on January 18, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Last time we looked at the event that led to the start of WWI, the Assasination in Sarajevo, and this time we’ll look at why that even had such dire and catastophic consequences.
Few things in history are as simple as they appear in the history books you read in high school, especially wars. World War [...]
Posted in AMU, American History, Andrew Jackson, History, Politics, to 1877 on January 6, 2007 | 20 Comments »
For this assignment for my History class we had to choose a crisis the country faced sometime before 1877. I chose the Nullification Crisis, something probably not very well known, but crucial in the years leading to the Civil War. The reading I’ve doing in this class lately has been a lot about the Compormise of [...]
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