Compromise

The American Civil War is perhaps one of the most written about topics in the field of history, and there are certainly many who devote their time to the events preceding it. In Rachel A. Shelden’s book, Washington Brotherhood: Politics, Social Life, and the Coming of the Civil War, tells a story beyond the events individuals are familiar with. Rather, Shelden discusses the events during the Antebellum period through a social and personal lens of Washington’s political aristocracy. In doing so,…

Tony Horwitz in “Why John Brown Still Scares Us” examines the story of John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry in what would one day become known as West Virginia in October 1859. The attack on Harpers Ferry was financed by a group of well known abolitionist with the support of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. Why John Brown Still Scares Us focuses mainly on John Brown, who was a well known abolitionist in the 1850’s. He traveled with people that tended to have some of his beliefs, but…

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe is a novel that was written as a call to action to its readers against slavery in the United States. Through many characters, mainly Tom, Stowe illustrates the heart-breaking realities of slavery to her readers. One instrumental way that Stowe did this was through the rhetorical device of antithesis. Two characters who embody Stowe’s use of antithesis are Tom Loker and Mr. Haley. Haley is described as a “short, thickset man” (3) and Loker as having a…

If you had a choice between doing what you want or doing what is right, what would you do? This is a question that many people in America had to answer. Back in the mid 1800’s slavery was a big issue, many wanted slavery but others did not. This is where William Lloyd Garrison comes into play. William Lloyd Garrison was one of the most influential American journalist in the anti-slavery movement for three reasons: he wanted all slaves to be freed and have rights that a 36 year old white man…

I read The Classic Slave Narratives: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, pages 405-410 as well as my assigned reading 425-445 plus Chapter 1 which was written and experienced by Harriet Jacobs, who is known in this book as Linda Brent due to the fact that she used fictitious names for her many different characters in order to protect their identities. This book was also updated by a well know author named Lydia Maria Childs. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery in 1813 in Edenton, North…

The second major conflict that led some slave states to secede from the Union are economic growth, differences of belief on slavery and federal government. In the nineteenth century, the United States was go through a big economic growth that caused a conflict amongst the Northern and Southern states. The North was focused on building industries and committed to free labor and immigration. The North’s efforts to creating an industrial economy prohibited slavery in some states and the plan for a…

Harriet Tubman was an american woman who escaped slavery in the south, and became a leading abolitionist. Harriet Tubman successfully escaped from slavery in 1849, but returned many times to help rescue her family members, and friends. She led thousands of slaves to freedom as a conductor of ‘The Underground Railroad’. The Underground Railroad was a secret network of safe houses. When Tubman escaped, she feared that her family would be further severed, and feared for own her fate and life. The…

Throughout the United States, industrialization has always played a major role in history. In the early 19th century American life advances through commercialization, industrialization, and improvements of transportation. A major shift from agrarianism to industrialization marks the beginning of the market revolution. However, this change did not affect all Americans in the same way as sectionalism began to diverge the North from the South. While the North favored manufactured goods the South…

Have you ever heard of the name Harriet Tubman, Harriet Tubman had many character traits some of them are independent, brave, and determined. Harriet Tubman’s character traits played a role in her deciden to escape from slavery. She lead 300 more slaves to freedom. When she was leading the slaves she had to go through woods quietly without getting caught. Harriet Tubman was independent, because she went north to south to free slaves on her plantation she would work on. She had to do that…

It was a misfortune that we had experienced a bloody war lasted four years of time and cost us an astounding amount of the war debt. Fortunately, the Union’s victory has been assured. Now, our urgency is to reconstruct and unite our country at this tumultuous period in order to prevent further conflicts that would be more devastating to the US government. We want the works of reconstruction to be a short process in which the states could run smoothly again and the United Sates could exist as it…