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3/5s Compromise in the US Constitution
The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise reached among state delegates during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention. How will slave be counted? The compromise solution was to count three out of every five slaves as people for this purpose. Its effect was to give the Southern states a third more seats in Congress and a third more electoral votes than if slaves had been ignored, but fewer than if slaves and free people had been counted equally. -
"Balance of Power" and Abolition
In the Antebellum Era, the balance of power between the North and South shifted every time a new territory was brought in to the Union. To keep this balance, new territories had to be brought in 2 at a time. One new territory becoming a free state, and one becoming a slave state. At the same time, a movement began to take hold whose sole focus was to "abolish" (or get rid of) slavery. The Abolition Movement gains a lot of ground particularly in the north. -
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John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an 1859 effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in Southern states by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. It has been called the dress rehearsal for the Civil War. Brown's party of 22 was defeated by a company of U.S. Marines. Stonewall Jackson was part of the troops guarding the arrested Brown and John Wilkes Booth was a spectator at his execution. -
North and South in 1860
Economical differences between the two regions had reached an all time high. Increasing the South's dependence on Slavery.
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Presidential Election of 1860
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South Carolina Secedes from the Union
South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union in December 1860, and was one of the founding member states of the Confederacy in February 1861.
