19th Century Dbq Research Paper

In 1816 the Congress chartered the second Bank of the United States. Referred to as BUS. The bank was controlled by private stockholders, even though it was the depository of federal funds. State banks saw this bank as a competitor, and when the state banks began to fail during the 1818 depression, they blamed it on the BUS. One of the states laying blame on BUS was Maryland. We impose a large tax on banks not chartered within the state, and the only bank not chartered within the state was BUS. The BUS’ Baltimore branch refused to pay the tax, and Maryland sued James McCulloch, cashier for the branch. McCulloch responded by saying that the tax was unconstitutional, one of the state courts ruled in favor of Maryland, and the court of appeals

Thesis: Slavery was the biggest issue during the election of 1860. There were four candidates in this presidential election. Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, John Breckinridge, and John Bell all campaigned for the presidency. Each of these men had completely different views of how they thought the issue of slavery should’ve been handled. This was one of the most historic elections in US history.

The 18th century was just the beginning where it displayed the true connotation of the United States.The puzzle was revolved around past events that lead to the Civil War.It appeared that the Union was beginning to deteriorate.Nevertheless,South Carolina was the first in line to secede from the puzzle in 1860 where Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas,Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina and Tennessee followed that path one year later.From the issues of slavery to formal dialogues concerning the North and the South that ascended to settlements of both sides, the United States appeared inaudibly to be fabricating into one realm.

Around the 1860’s a major issue was slavery and what to do with it. The government, individuals, and groups tried many different things to deal with slavery.

The second great awakening of the 1850s lit a fire underneath the American people because of the spread of European romantic beliefs and religious revival which lead to the creation of many reform movements. At the same time the industrial revolution was occurring which brought issues such as labor conditions and equality to the forefront of reform movements. Due to the industrial revolution, a new national economy was created that brought more and more people into the workplace and created a larger gap between the rich and the poor. These conditions led to many reform movements to spread democratic ideals. Reform movements from 1825-1855 in the US had a limited impact on expanding democratic ideals as somewhere not successful in their time

There were many different so called “reform movements” in the years 1825 through 1850, although, only some were actually making changes to the U.S. that benefited the people as a whole, others were just self proclaimed reforms to cover up the fact that their movement only benefited themselves and the rest of the group they were representing, these were the types of “reforms” that failed to show the value that Americans placed on having a democratic society. That being said, the validity of the statement “Reform movements in the U.S. sought to expand democratic ideals.”, would be partially correct but partially false because not all of these movements were created to expand the ideas of democracy.

During the nineteenth century, sectionalism has made the nation grow with differences between states. Between 1812 and 1832, the federal government has enforced laws trying to increase the nationalism between the states. Contrastingly, the increased sectionalism between the states caused many concerns with the regions. Sectional problems from states, cannot always be taken into consideration by the federal government. Although, sectional concerns should outweigh national commands when there is a complication between social classes, unconstitutionality in law enforcement, or when there is a chance that the nation’s unity will disperse.

The South has been criticized for practicing the archaic ways of slavery deeming it: barbaric, inhumane, and out of touch with the changes of the world. The argument continues through George Fitzhugh’s Southern Thought, “Labor pays all taxes, but labor in a slave society is property, and men will take care of their property. In free society, labor is not property, and there is nothing to shield the laborer from the grinding weight of taxation – all of which he pays, because he produces everything valuable.” (Fitzhugh Southern Thought pg. 823) Furthermore, the identity the South identifies itself as a place of self-worth and pride in what your property can produce while enjoying the fruits of their labors. A land where taxes cannot take away the riches and treasures that are produced in their fruitful land.

In the 1850s and 1860s, while only about one-fourth of white southerners owned slaves, they were respected much more than the nonslaveholding whites, who were labeled, even by slaves, as being “poor white trash”. Owning slaves not only had its economic advantages, but it also had social advantages. Slave masters needed their slaves to make a living and to keep their social standings, and to many, if not all, slave-owning southerners, slaves were seen as their property; they paid for their slaves, therefore, the slaves rightfully belong to them. When their rights to their “property” were threatened, slaveowners had every right to take defensive actions. Threats became most serious when new states began joining the Union, becoming free-states, and balance in the Senate, involving the equal representation of pro-slave states and free-states had been upset, giving free-states the upper-hand. The South already knew their peculiar institution was threatened by just the mere existence of anti-slavery abolitionists and others who were unsupportive of the practice of slavery, so when their political disadvantage launched forward with the disbalance of their representation in the Senate, it was clear that the threats were becoming more and more real. With the possibility of slavery coming to an end being more

In the late 19th century many complaints and opinions arose to whether or not the government control is too powerful. These ideas surfaced from Native Americans, western farmers, and African-Americans looking for a quality as well as freedom. This was in the same time when Vanderbilt established the New York Central Railroad which cut through property stretching 4500 miles (LaFortune). Native Americans, Western farmers, and African Americans in the later 19th century suffered from too much government action.

The stability that slavery created in the American South between 1820 and 1860 was phenomenal. Economic stability was like no other country had ever seen, this economic stability created a global marketing network throughout many different nations, trade routes that still exist within modern America today. Slavery became the bedrock of American South livelihood; it became so valuable that it was almost seen as unimaginable to live without slavery. “It was inconceivable that European colonists could have settled and developed America without slave labour taking place,” this was according to……. The reason the south prospered and grew like it did was due to slavery. The value that slaves had to their slave owners was unquestionable. Slave owners were able to receive loans, whilst using their slaves as guarantors; these loans would then have been used in the purchasing of further land, more livestock and more slaves. It was also said that slave owners used their slaves to pay of any outstanding debt they may have had. It is clear to see the economic value that slaves possessed; they were included in the valuation of estates, for example; (Example), and this in turn became a source of tax revenue for the National as well as the local Governments, it was also

During the early 1800’s the demand for cotton had risen and it was now “King” of plantations in the southern region of the United States, where the climate was best suited. Now more then ever, slavery had become an essential component of most every cotton producing plantation. The Southerners knew slavery was wrong, but made justifications for it; within a span of 30 years these justifications had changed due to abolitionist movements (in the northern half of the county) and economic reasons which made cotton and slavery more profitable than ever.

The South’s addiction to slavery in the early 1800’s would lead to great impacts on the region, as well as the nations. Slaveries economic blessing came at the price of the nation’s

In the mid to late nineteenth century, America was full of potential. Settlers were cultivating the west, blacks that were once captive were no longer enslaved, and a woman’s role in society was undergoing a transformation. The reality of this all was, blacks were not considered equal status with whites, American Indians were being pushed out west and women were still considered second-class citizens.

Prior to the 1820’s, the people of the United States had been struggling to find a way to solve their sectional tensions brought on by slavery in the south. The south had always had an economy based on agriculture that could not strive without their uses of slavery. They did not plan on ending slavery anytime soon, especially since it was really all they had to support themselves. They were against establishing an industrial based economy like the north had began to do in the 1820-1830’s. The real cause of the sectional tensions between the North and the South during the 1820’s-1860’s was not slavery itself, but how it affected each society so differently, and it was very challenging to find a compromise to suit