Assignment 2.2: Liberty Challenged in Nineteenth Century America Final Paper

Liberty Challenged in Nineteenth Century America

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Date:  Thesis: The Civil war was majorly caused by Slavery and its abolition which went around issues of anti-slavery and pro-slavery.

I. The 3/5ths Compromise

a. The political status in the South was increased by increasing slavery activities.

II. The Missouri Compromise of 1820

a. Missouri admitted as slave states and Maine as free

b. The Louisiana territory abolished slavery due to the house vote (Savage, 2018).

III. The Compromise of 1850

a. California became the 16th free state.

b. The fugitive law required the northerners to take back their run-away slaves to their owners.

IV. The Kansas-Nebraska Act

a. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and 1850 was undermined.

b. The Republican party was created.

V. The Dred Scott Decision

a. Slaves were not considered as a person but as the property of their owners. The constitution of the U.S indicated that the Slaves could never become citizens (Gerstle, 2017).

b. Abolishment of the Missouri Compromise 1850.

VI. Reasons why slavery was and is incompatible with our political and economic system

a. Human beings share the same rights to freedom and should not subjected to forced labor.

b. Independence declaration indicated that each human being is equal to the other and should pursue Liberty and happiness (Catley, 2017).

c. Shortage of labor.

VII. The driving forces that led to the Civil War.

a. Social and economic differences.

b. The rights of the states vs federal rights.

c.   Slavery 

d.   Expansion of the United States.

VIII. Conclusion/Summary 

The civil war was majorly caused by slavery. Other factors that led to the civil war include social and economic differences, the expansion of the United States and States rights vs federal rights. Slavery has proved to incompatible to our political and economic system because it causes shortage of labor and due to the Independence declaration that indicated all human beings are equal to each other.

References

Catley, R. (2017). The American challenge: The world resists US liberalism. Routledge.

Gerstle, G. (2017). Liberty and coercion: The paradox of American government from the founding to the present. Princeton University Press.

Savage, K. (2018). Standing soldiers, kneeling slaves: Race, war, and monument in nineteenth-century America. Princeton University Press.