How did the Mexican Revolution affect the United States? How did the Cuban Revolution cause the Spanish-American War? How did the Mexican Revolution affect Tejanos? How did Congress vote for the Mexican American War? Who was in favor? Northern or Southern Representatives?
abolitionist's role, and improved the underground network during the decade leading up to the Civil War. Tubman extended the railroad to carry underground escapees into Canada as a result of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, which allowed slavers t...
Ports of slavery, ports of freedom: How slaves used northern seaports' maritime industry to escape and create trans-Atlantic identities, 1713--1783. This dissertation examines and reconstructs the lives of fugitive slaves who used the maritime industries in New York, Philadelphia and Newport to ...
When the topic of slavery arose during the deliberations over calculating political representation in Congress, the southern states of Georgia and the Carolinas demanded that each enslaved person be counted along with whites. The northern states balked, saying it gave southern states an unfair advantage...
First, the dissertation demonstrates that the key characteristics of slavery in northern ports were slaves' mobility, the diversity of the labor they performed, and their strong connection to the Atlantic maritime community. Second, it illustrates that the maritime industry in northern port cities of...
To defend Confederate monuments, supporters turn to something called the "Lost Cause" narrative. The Civil War, in the minds of some Southerners, was really the "War of Northern Aggression." The men who fought and died on the side of the Confederacy weren't fighting for slavery, but merely...
the north wanted to stop the expansion of slavery beyond it’s borders. In the south there was a need for slaves to work on the plantations and on the fields. Seeing as though, slaves were the ones who kept their owner’s homes up and in good shape while the northern states had no ...
“agreement” would have been reached. This is quite apart from the fact that a Hezbollah withdrawal to north of the Litani would not make northern Israel safe from missile and rocket attack. The resolution, as a security document, is not worth the paper it is written on. The Israeli ...
How did Voodoo start? Voodoo was originally practiced about 6,000 years ago in northern Africa before spreading to Haiti and the Americas during the 16th and 17th centuries. West African slaves were shipped into Haiti to serve the French plantations. What are the main beliefs of Voodoo? Voodoo...
States via the Underground Railroad. The movement began almost immediately after the Declaration of Independence was signed. One by one, northern states begun to abolish slavery; beginning with Vermont. The movement grew but they faced severe obstacles in southern states, which had encoded slavery ...