What are the historical circumstances of abolishing slavery? What argument did southerners give in support of slave labor? What was the penalty for violating the Fugitive Slave Act? What types of labor did slaves perform in the South?
Discuss some of the impacts of slavery on the South and the North. What impact did the Stono Rebellion have on the South? What was the impact of the American Civil War? How did the carpetbaggers affect southern politics in the US?
The Soviet people were urged to rouse themselves for what was to become the largest military contest of all time. The Axis assault on June 22, 1941, had caught Soviet forces almost entirely unprepared. Finnish armies in the north, Romanian armies in the south, and a 3-million strong Nazi ...
The value of labor squeezed from black slaves by American slaveholders amounted to $14 trillion in current prices. According to statistics, in 1850, 80% of US exports were produced by slaves. It was slavery, rather than democracy, that paved the US and West’s way to prosperity. Even toda...
What is antebellum slavery? What was the South Carolina slave revolt? What led to the development of slave codes? What slave rebellion broke out in South Carolina during 1739? What did abolitionists do to stop the Fugitive Slave Act? What did the Fugitive Slave Act do? What did the Northwe...
The introduction of John Fairfield's involvement with the Underground Railroad was when he stole away with one of his uncle's slaves. Fairfield was one of the more violent of the conductors on the UGRR, he often demanded the runaways in his care take active, sometimes violent, participation ...
Alexander Hamilton’s Complicated Relationship to Slavery The Founding Father opposed slavery, but he bought and sold enslaved people for his in-laws—and possibly even his own household. Read more While forming a new government, Burr took progressive positions Alexander Hamilton Burr graduated from ...
African American culture has continually developed in the United States, some of which was passed throughout generations with an ancestral tie to Africa. Despite slavery, African American's have always worked toward a clear depiction of their culture, especially in the arts and music....
world. Thanks to the Lisbon Recognition Convention, IGCSEs are accepted as worthy qualifications in many countries around the world. The convention was signed by 45 of the 47 member states of the Council of Europe, alongside countries such as the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and ...
What was the last slave rebellion in the 1800s? According to "American Slavery" by Peter Kolchin, what 4 arguments/justifications did Southern slaveholders use to defend slavery? What was the popular euphemism for slavery in the South?