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American History Homework Five Answers - Student Seven (view source)
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7. No, I don’t think it would have been possible to avoid the Civil War. There was a lot of tension between the North and the South. Disagreements about tariffs caused much controversy. The issue of slavery was a huge source of conflict. The North was against slavery, and the South not only wanted slavery, but depended on it for their economy and agriculture, especially the production of cotton. The South’s economy depended on slavery. Without the war, slavery would have taken much longer to abolish. Also, the South would probably have seceded from the Union, and there would have been a lot of continual hatred between the North and South. Thanks to the war, the Union was preserved, slavery was abolished, and the enmity between the North and the South gradually ended.
7. No, I don’t think it would have been possible to avoid the Civil War. There was a lot of tension between the North and the South. Disagreements about tariffs caused much controversy. The issue of slavery was a huge source of conflict. The North was against slavery, and the South not only wanted slavery, but depended on it for their economy and agriculture, especially the production of cotton. The South’s economy depended on slavery. Without the war, slavery would have taken much longer to abolish. Also, the South would probably have seceded from the Union, and there would have been a lot of continual hatred between the North and South. Thanks to the war, the Union was preserved, slavery was abolished, and the enmity between the North and the South gradually ended.
H2. The Compromise of 1850 was strongly supported by Henry Clay. It enacted several things. California was admitted as a free state. The South could bring slaves into the Southwest territories. Although slavery was not abolished in DC, the slave trade was. It also enacted tougher federal fugitive slave laws that were strictly enforced. And lastly, Texas was given 10M$ to pay off debt, in exchange for giving up some land claims and territories.
H3. The Freeport Doctrine was articulated by Stephen A. Douglas. Lincoln tried to force Douglas to choose between the principle of popular sovereignty and the United States Supreme Court ruling in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, which stated that slavery could not legally be excluded from the territories, because slaves were property. Instead of making a direct choice, Douglas' response stated that despite the court's ruling, slavery could be prevented from any territory by the refusal of the people living in that territory to pass laws favorable to slavery. Likewise, if the people of the territory supported slavery, legislation would provide for its continued existence. By taking this middle standpoint and trying to appease both the North and the South, he lost the support of both.
H4. I think that while John Brown informed the people about the evils of slavery and believed that he was helping his cause, he did this the wrong way. Although he may have helped spark more abolitionism feeling, killing pro-slavery colonists does not send the right message. Although action against slavery was good, Brown support of violent action did not help the abolitionist movement as much as it could have had it been less violent.