The impact of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments are the "reconstuction" amendments. All of the amendments were based on freeing slaves. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by Abraham Lincoln and was applied to the states that were rebelious. It changed the focus of going to war and its' powers. During the Reconstruction Era, there were lots of problems to do with the way African American men were treated.
An abolitionist is a person who wanted to end slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, William Lloyd Garrison, Fredrick Douglass, Sarah and Angelina Grimke, Sojourner Truth, and John Brown were all people who hlped the laves beome free.
The Homestead Act was the most was one of the most significant events for he westward expansion. The Dawes Act was about land ownership, and self-government on the Native Americans. The Morrill Act effected the US by boosting the education higher.
Abraham Lincoln believed that the african americans should be below the whites. Although, he did not approve the spreading of slavery. Jefferson Davis declared that his purpose was "to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves
The diffrence between Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis is that Jefferson Davis' purpose in the Union was to "establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and to secue the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our prosterity." Thomas Jefferson's beliefs on equality were that blacks should have the same ights as the white do. For example, have the right to vote, be in public office
Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri, then bought by a surgeon in Illinois, which was a free state. The court case after Scott's owner died was soon to be more important and go before a Supreme court case.
The Kansas Nebraska Act was a bill that let the settlers decide if they wanted their state to have slaves or not. Although, the Civil War did start in Fort Sumter
The Missouri Compromise was done by Congress trying to keep the states balanced. They were all evenly balanced between slave state or free from slaves. The Compromise of 1850 was laws that were about California being a slave-free state and including other territories but still undecided. Both compromises consisted of the
Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun and Daniel Webster were in compromise before the Civil War because of slavery. It was a major issue throughout the states. The Compromise Tariff of 1833 was when South Carolina nullified the tariff in 1832. John C. Calhoun had his speech that read talking about the near future while he was sitting in the Senate chamber. Lastly, Daniel Webster spoke a few days later after John, and was continuing on trying to keep the states a a Union.
In the west, David Wilmot helped there be less slavery, and he helped the banning of slavery for all of the territories that were from Mexico. The north believed that slavery would not lead the nation into a very good direction. Lastly, the south thought slaves would be useful to grow economically as a nation.