Did the Northwest Ordinance contain the Bill of Rights? Did the Northwest Ordinance get unanimous consent? Did the Missouri Compromise overturn the Northwest Ordinance? Did the South oppose the Fugitive Slave Act? Did the Northwest Ordinance work? Did the Bill of Rights prohibit slavery? Did the ...
Over time, many people have developed several theories into why the Southern states have seceded from the Union, but there is no certain answer. During the Civil War, many of the Southern states wanted to keep the practice of slavery. The Northern states believed that slavery was a bad idea...
Why did slavery happen? Why was slavery used in the United States? Why didn't indentured servitude take over for slavery? Why did the Founding Fathers keep slavery in the U.S. Constitution? Why did Texans want slavery to be legal again?
Life in the South depended on slavery or what could be known as the "Peculiar Institution". The slaves' conditions were horrible, and they were treated brutally. As a slave, family and friends could be the only way you find happiness, but that happiness could end at any time. Slaves were...
Why did the Quakers want to abolish slavery? In 1776, Quakers were prohibited from owning slaves, and 14 years later they petitioned the U.S. Congress for the abolition of slavery. As a primary Quaker belief is thatall human beings are equal and worthy of respect, the fight for human ...
Except for the presidency, all political elections in the U.S.—from first-grade class president to mayor to governor to U.S. senator—are won by simple majorities. Democracy is—or so we are taught as children—the “rule of the majority.” Do we want to perpetuate a system ...
Anger in the north against southern slavery became stronger and stronger, though the south continued to refuse to consider bringing it to an end. Soon it became clear that the north could not allow the continuation of slavery within the United sates. The Civil War was fought over the claim ...
While Washington and Jefferson privately expressed distaste for slavery, they also understood that it was part of the political and economic bedrock of the country they helped to create. For one thing, the South could not afford to part with its slaves. Owning slaves was "like having a large...
David Horowitz made the excellent point that America did not invent slavery, America ended it. Leftists are hellbent on instilling the lie in this country’s blacks that we are not a part of the American experience; that we are somehow forever victims in a strange land which is not our...
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