Essays Tagged: "Stephen Douglas"
US Civil War, 40 years of intense conflict between the north and the south
in the North also worried Southerners. The problem of slavery expansion bursted again in1854, when Stephen Douglas from illinois put through congress a bill makeing two new territories(Kansas and Neb ... tion by the Southern wing of john Breckinridge of kentucky and the nomintion by thenorthern wing of stephen douglas. The nwly formed constitutional union party reflecting thecompromise sentiment still ...
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US Civil War, 40 years of intense conflict between the north and the south
in the North also worried Southerners. The problem of slavery expansion bursted again in1854, when Stephen Douglas from illinois put through congress a bill makeing two new territories(Kansas and Neb ... tion by the Southern wing of john Breckinridge of kentucky and the nomintion by thenorthern wing of stephen douglas. The nwly formed constitutional union party reflecting thecompromise sentiment still ...
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Civil War, the ulmination of four decades of intense sectional conflict of social and political difference between the North and the South
the law as a part of the Compromise of the 1850s, which attempted to settle new territorial dispute.Stephen A. Douglas leader of the northern democrats believed in popular sovereignty for the west . D ... ing of the party was John C. Breckingridge of Kentucky and the northern wing of the party nominated Stephen A. Douglas . The newly found Constitutional Union Party , reflecting the compromise sentimen ...
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The Civil War arose out of the issue of the rights of states and both the economic and political rivarly between the South and the North.
area had been defeated in Congress mainly because ofSouthern opposition to the Missouri Compromise. Stephen A. Douglas, thechairman of the Senate Committee on territories decided to offer territoriall ...
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The events that led up to the Civil War.
lost the case and was still considered a slave.The race for the U.S. senate began between Democrat Stephen Douglas and Republican Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln believed that the "government cannot endure ...
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act .
In 1854, Senator Stephen Douglas from Illinois proposed a bill to organize the vast Nebraska territory west of Iowa a ... ance the importance of the Midwest and boost the region's political influence in national politics. Stephen Douglas, a senator from Illinois, embraced the ideas of a railroad to the Pacific and the or ...
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Kansas Nebraska Act.
fferences in our nation that resulted in violence. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a plan introduced by Stephen Douglas that would divide the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase, of 1803, into two separat ... ignty would allow voters to determine whether the state was to be a slave state or a free state. If Stephen's Act was passed, a railroad could be built from Chicago to the pacific, an idea that outrag ...
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The Cause and Effect of the Civil War.
nd abolitionists of the North. But in 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act which was sponsored by Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, brought slavery to the forefront of national attention. The Kansas-Nebraska Act ... resentatives.The turning point was the election of 1860. The Democrat party had split badly between Stephen A. Douglas (leader of the Northern Democratic faction and creator of the Kansas-Nebraska Act ...
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The causes of the civil war
nger government. The North offset the opinions of Greeley and others by the definite declaration of Stephen A. Douglas, the foremost of Western Democrats, and by the official opinion as to the power o ...
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The effect of historical figures on the Civil War
angrier toward the South and therefore more likely to declare war on the South after they seceded. Stephen Douglas was also influential in this respect, particularly for his approval of the Kansas-Ne ...
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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858
s married to Mary Todd, and they had four sons.Lincoln ran for senate in 1858, but lost to Democrat Stephen A. Douglas. In 1860 Lincoln was nominated to be the Republican candidate for the 1860 presid ... ica, Abraham Lincoln, was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth.Senator Stephen A. Douglas was born in Brandon, Vermont. Unlike Abraham Lincoln, he did not have to work as ...
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Abraham Lincoln and national politics
ainst it, and that it was in the course ofultimate extinction.' Lincoln opposed the whole policy of Stephen A. Douglas, hethought that Douglas did not care much about slavery and was simply making sur ... so denies the rights of free blacksto become citizens and voters with the same equality as himself. Stephen Douglassays that he is opposed to Negro citizenship, and talks of confining only whitecitize ...
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What caused the Civil War?
, South Carolina, was indecisive. The Southerners opposed the leading candidate for the nomination, Stephen A. Douglas. The final four candidates were Lincoln, Douglas, Bell and Breckinridge. Lincoln ...
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By the 1850's the Constitution became a source of sectional discord, ultimately contributing to the failure of the union. This tries to disprove this statement. *AP US DBQ from 1987
the struggle over slavery in Kansas. Document F depicts a political cartoon basically stating that Stephen Douglas, Franklin Pierce, and James Buchanan all attempted intentionally or unintentionally ... e, and James Buchanan all attempted intentionally or unintentionally to spread slavery to the West. Stephen Douglas proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act in which the Midwest Nebraska territory would be di ...
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Discuss the major causes of the US Civil War.
themselves slave owners. TheNorth had equally powerful political leaders such as democraticSenator Stephen A. Douglas who were powerful political abolitionistswho wanted to abolish slavery. These dif ... background issue andconcern for the political leaders. However the Kansas Nebraska Act,sponsored by Stephen A. Douglas, brought slavery to the forefront ofnational attention. This act repealed the lon ...
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Election Of 1860
se as I said before. There were four candidates. Abraham Lincoln, John Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen Douglas.Abe Lincoln was the representative of the newly formed Republican Party. He narrowly ... onsin. Lincoln got 1,866,352 votes or about 40% of the vote. His Vice-President was Hannibal Hamlin.Stephen Douglas was favored coming into the election but only won one state, Missouri. This is becau ...
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Slavery In The Colonies
of a cease-fire than a solution. It wasn't long before more problems arose.In January 1854, Senator Stephen A. Douglas proposed a bill to organize the Nebraska and Kansas territories, which fell withi ... of the North condemned slavery while Southern literature praised the institution. Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, John Breckinridge, and John Bell were all candidates in the election. Lincoln, desp ...
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act
inception of the Kansas-Nebraska Act into United States Law. The Act was introduced to Congress by Stephen A. Douglas in an attempt to establish the Kansas and Nebraska territories.The Kansas-Nebrask ... ska Bill caused territorial problems that destroyed the National Party system. It was introduced by Stephen A. Douglas, one of the leading men behind the Compromise of 1850, and in opposition to secti ...
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Compromise of 1861
the Missouri Compromise, the government could not decide whether to make them free or slave states. Stephen Douglas who was very intelligent, thought of an idea to solve all of the country's problems. ... nd drew up the Lecompton Constitution, which was overwhelmingly pro-slavery. Antislavery people and Stephen Douglas said it was a fraud and refused to vote in favor of it. The president James Buchanan ...
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Causes of the Civil War
ave owners themselves. The North had equally powerful political leaders, such as democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas, who were powerful political abolitionists that wanted to abolish slavery. These ... kground issue and concern for the political leaders, however, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, sponsored by Stephen A. Douglas, brought slavery to the forefront of national attention. This act repealed the lo ...
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