Compromise

In 1846, a slave named Dred Scott sued for his freedom in a St. Louis city court. The had what seemed to be a very strong case. They had lived with their owner, who was an army surgeon in the free Territory of Wisconsin. Dred Scott sued on the fact that he had been held as a slave in a free state, then taken back to a slave state. Many courts had ruled that once you're a free man you are always a free man. This looked to be just a simple case in which Scott should've been ruled a free man.…

Harriet Tubman was an extraordinary female hero; she escaped from slavery yet she returned to slave states to free about three hundred slave throughout her adulthood. From early childhood leading to the day of her escape, Harriet experienced frequent hardships while serving wealthy plantation owners. However, when she became a free woman, she journied on expeditions into the heart of slave territory and onced served Abraham Lincoln by spying on the confederates. Harriet Tubman led an…

“I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.” This was a quote that Harriet Tubman once said to herself. She was also one of the most effective person on fighting for human rights. Cesar Chavez was also important to changing human rights. Harriet Tubman and Cesar Chavez should always be thought about when talking about leaders that fought for human rights. Cesar…

Freedom Quilts Are the Freedom Quilts real? Two historians say African American slaves may of used a quilt code to navigate the Underground Railroad. Quilts with patterns named wagon wheel, tumbling blocks, and bear paws appear to have contained secret messages that helped direct slaves to freedom. The code "was a way to say something to a person in the presence of many others without the others knowing," "It was a way of giving direction without saying, 'Go northwest.'" The seamstress would…

The book Harriet Tubman: the road to freedom, by Catherine Clinton gives provides details on Harriet Tubman’s life. Harriet Tubman is an important person, because of her actions during the era of slavery. She was able escape from chains slavery, and Fugitive Slave Acts. Harriet risked her life by going to back in forth into the south to rescue her family members and others that were enslaved. Harriet was able rescue the enslaved people with the help of the Underground Railroad. She was a…

Westward expansion was greatly encouraged by Thomas Jefferson and his numerous policies. International commerce and technology were both things he supported, to benefit farmers and their way of life. This development would, according to Jefferson, provide an escape from the British way of life and industry. Then America would prosper, so long as farmers could obtain land at a reasonable price. These ideas inspired a massive movement that led to western expansion. Jeffersonian policies played a…

The fight to end slavery was a long and arduous The anti-slavery movement had an array of different individuals involved for different reasons. Main reasons for the growing opposition to slavery was being education about slavery, realization of the constitutional violation, anticipation of greater economical chances for white men, fear and sectional strife it caused. Slavery was the cause of great sectional strife between the North and the South. Document A shows that the action taken by…

Harriet Tubman is being honored with an award for her bravery. She showed her bravery in the Civil War and when she helped with The Underground Railroad. Harriet showed that she was very brave when she was a spy for the Union in the Civil War. Before she was a spy for the Union she was a slave who escaped. Then she came back to where her family was and helped them escape. She was also known as the best “conductor” of the Underground Railroad. When she helped her family escape she realized that…

In Southern history slavery has been of mammoth economic importance. The South used the slaves in growing cotton. The cotton picked by the slaves made up over 80% of the exports from America (U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Slavery: Cause and Catalyst of the Civil War, 1). The cotton export was the most important business in America, for both the south and the north. Slavery was one of the most cost effective means of production to earn money in a labor intensive…

Emerson agrees with Tocqueville that American people tend to conform to the majority’s opinion too often. In particular, Emerson describes this trend in a political setting. After the passing of the Fugitive Slave Law, which called for men in northern states to essentially kidnap slaves and return them into southern servitude, Emerson began to criticize Daniel Webster and his followers. Emerson says that “under the shadow of [Webster’s] great name, inferior men sheltered themselves, threw…